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Lets start with us. the and mark meadows being referred to the justice department for a criminal contempt charge investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. mostly along party lines with vice chair liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger, joining democrats to vote in favor of contempt. the top democrat and republican on the committee say the measure had nothing to do with executive privilege or immunity, but its all about meadows refusal to questioned about the material he handed over...

Meadows. as gloria mentioned before the break, he is at the center of so many story lines. they are expected to vote in about 10 or 15 minutes. as you might imagine, that is only our best estimate. these things tend to change. first, i want you to hear this. it is an interview i did just before air time with someone who testified today in front of the committee. he is dustin stockton, one of the organizers of the january 6th rally on the ellipse washington preceding the capitol attack. i spoke w...

Clark. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. >> it is outrageous. adam schiff reading out a text, we dont know who its from. a text praszing clark and saying hell make a lot of so-called patriots happy. >> one of the texts to meadows on january 3rd came from an unknown colllar and referred to efforts to preplace the leadership efforts. i heard jeff clark is getting put in on monday. thats amazing. it will make a lot of patriots happy and...

Are the only republicans that went along with the majority in the house, being comprised of democrats, to hold meadows in contempt for defying the committee. meadows and a member of congress talking a day after the election. >> on november 4th, a member of this body wrote to meadows, heres an aggressive strategy, one day after the election. why cant the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania and other republican-controlled statehouses declare this is bs where conflicts and action not ca...

Then president to come up with a plot to oust the acting attorney general, give himself the job. get the doj to intervene in you guessed it, georgia. to flip the state for trump. >> as mr. meadows non-privileged text reveal, he was communicating multiple times with a member of congress currently serving colleague of ours who was working with mr. clark. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. >> it is outrageous. adam schiff reading out a t...

We have seen so much. whether it is the election issues we have talked about, whether it was some of the immigration issues that have been such a hot button flashpoint in american politics, we have seen it all land in the courts time and again. it is notable that this was mission critical for donald trump. this is how he unified the pretrump conservative base to his movement. around the issue of judges. he put out that list of preapproved supreme court nominees should he get any vacancies. the f...

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Contempt. the department of justice received the report at noon and will now decide whether to prosecute. the committee chairman bennie thompson believes they built a strong case. >> this isnt about any sort of privilege or immunity. this is about mr. meadows refusing to comply with the subpoena to discuss the records he himself turned over. >> reporter: as does president joe biden, though he says he hasnt spoken to anyone that the doj is independent of the white house. >> it seems to me, its wo...

Deal with things like climate change. >> and ellison, what about from where youre standing? you know, were having some connection issues, im sorry. its difficult circumstances down there. ellison is going to give us a tour, was going to give us a tour, and also an update on the dog that we saw yesterday. we heard the dog barking, the dog was rescued from that rubble, which is just a little bit of good news coming out of that area, although a whole lot of bad news as well. were also following t...

Capital was being attacked? and what they are saying today and what they are seeing with their votes today in effect to try and defend mark meadows? >> good evening lawrence. first off, the members of congress along with the fox news host what, they are saying at its course is that they have really unfathomable sustained contempt for their viewers, for their voters. they think that they are worthless. they are unworthy of the truth. they lied to them with abandonment and cynicism. and you just l...