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At that hearing the january 6th investigators read into the public record all of this new material wed never heard of before, quotes from texts and e-mails and other documents mark meadows had turned in to the investigators before something spooked him and he decided he was no longer going to cooperate and he would start to defy their subpoenas. last night is when we got those shocking, shocking details from some of the materials meadows has turned over, including verbatim -- they tell us verbat...

Cnns ryan nobles is on capitol hill for us. matter of fact, i remember when i was staying in a hotel because we would be working late buecaue they would be working late to certify the election. i remember pretty much everything about that day. were they going to get it certified? going back and forth with the producers. if he talked with the president of the united states on that day. come on, really. so lets talk about why youre there, ryan. good evening. the house is set to vote any minute to ...

The mandate came along, now it is over 97%. im sorry to see challenges being placed, if youre just interested in public health and recognize that freedom is not just about liberties, it is also about responsibles, these mandates make total sense. theyre the historically the way we got through things like smallpox. >> dr. francis collins, we are very pleased that you took some of your closing minutes as the nih director to speak with us and our viewers and we wish you a wonderful holiday and anot...

Welcome back to "cnn newsroom." im isa soares. if youre just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories this hour. americas top health officials are warning of an omicron variant take over that will bring another pandemic wave. it comes as the u.s. marks 800,000 coronavirus deaths. and lawmakers have voted to recommend criminal contempt charges against former trump chief of staff mark meadows. the case now goes to the justice department who will decide whether or not to pur...

Thank you. thanks very much, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. boy, when it rains it pours. perhaps the news gods are planning on taking an extra long holiday break this year so they need to cram in everything now, today before they go? maybe the news gods were mad they didnt get enough attention last week or as children or something, so now theyre making us pay for it? i dont know. but keeping up with the late-breaking news just today for whatever reason, it has been li...

Like bannon because of the privilege issues, meadows after all was working in the executive branch and has asserted executive privilege. the committee has made a really smart argument to the justice department. theyve said you dont have to consider the privilege issue. were going to set that aside. were asking you to hold meadows in contempt because he turned over a number of documents saying that they werent privileged and its those non-privileged issues that hes refused to appear and testify a...

Investigation, and that he wasnt coming in to be interviewed. if you are making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, youre making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. youre making excuses as part of a cover-up. >> if the house does vote to find meadows in contempt, the justice department will soon consider indicting him, like it did with steve bannon last month. today the committees vice chair, liz cheney, shared more damning text...

But for tonight, meadows should consider the case of steve bannon who now faces up to two years behind bars and up to $2,000 in fines. the contempt law actually allows a fine of $100,000 for each count. that could mean having to sell a lot of those new books. in the doj indicts meadows, he would be the first white house chief of staff charged with a crime since h.r. haldeman. other members of the january 6th committee are revealing even more text messages from meadows phone. for a report on that...

As he left washington today. >> whats your reaction to congress holding meadows in contempt? >> i dont know enough, just what ive seen. it seems to me hes worthy of being held in contempt. >> evan perez joins us now. so tell us more about what the doj is weighing as they consider these charges against meadows? >> well, i think its going to be a bit of a tougher call for the prosecutors in the u.s. attorneys office and ultimately obviously the attorney general, merrick garland, has the final say ...

Ongoing human victims in the big lie. when all in, starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. right now as we speak the house of representatives are preparing to vote on holding donald trumps former chief of staff, mark meadows, in contempt of congress. a body in which he once served. for refusing to comply with the subpoena from the january six committee. on this resolution, it started this afternoon around for 15. theres a bit of a holdup, by republicans over accusations of ...