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Is that not only did that just get disregard, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leaked them to put out a narrative that quite frankly that the president didnt act, and i can tell you -- the president did act. this is all about, you know -- its not about holding me in contempt. its about coming after president donald trump, and sadly thats what tonights vote was all about. >> we know it was hours before trump released that video statement telling the rioters to go home a...

Debating his fate right now. >> reporter: thats exactly right, wolf. by taking this step of referring mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress, it is likely that the january 6th select committee is putting themselves in a position where they may not learn much more about what mark meadows knows about the days and weeks leading up to january 6th. as evidenced by the drips and drabs theyve already shared, the documents meadows has handed over to the committee tells us a lot about what he kno...

Preventions. particularly for our company, you know, in the anniversary of the first day that we have administered in an american this vaccine, and that was the first vaccine administered against covid, to come now with a treatment of 90% effectiveness, you know, personally makes me proud about the scientists that we have and the people at pfizer who were able to make that happen. >> albert bourla, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> i thank you very much. coming up still for us, on thi...

Even don junior i dont think of as having a particularly well moral compass is perceiving this in the same way and the question is, you know, why wasnt trump responding to this? he was the one who they all believed had the power to stop this and he was the one who apparently did it because these texts kept coming. >> amazing. don junior who is -- i was going to say all of them. the biggest joke of the trump family, besides the dad is like on that day saying, you know, you got to stop this. mark ...

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Wrapups of either palestinian question or more pressing issue of iran, wolf. >> i suspect they talked about it privately. didnt make mention of it in the public statement. thank you very much. and to the viewers, thanks very much for watching. i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. and our out front starts right now. good evening, out front tonight we are standing by for a viewing vote. any minute members of the january 6th select committee are spec to recommend that the full house find dona...

Comply, it is -- it is dripping with hypocrisy. its almost laughable how hypocritical it is. >> john, how likely is it that the department of justice would try to prosecute meadows for contempt? thats if and when the full house votes on the recommendation. >> i think the full house will hold him in contempt and theyll refer it to the department of justice. i think the justice department will prosecute. were all aware of the bannon case, which was played out very publicly. the report that the hou...

Person who the capitol was stormed for. >> so do you think they will vote for contempt? what does that mean? >> yeah. so it has to go to the full house. and then it will go to doj. on the one hand, its a harder case than bannon. meadows has partially complied, but overlying all of this, hes the former president. we just got a ruling last week from the court of appeals in d.c. that the former president doesnt get to call for executive privilege contrary to the current president. i think doj shoul...

To leave the capitol? brian, please get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished. no comment from fox about this but, garrett, you have to imagine the texts, including the ones from unnamed lawmakers here like, for example, one who says, pence as president of the senate should call out all electoral votes he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. yesterday was a terrible day, we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. im sorry nothing work...

Crime, in this case a premeditated one. he thought carefully about his actions and actively chose to stonewall, which you can clearly see in his back and forth with the select committee. >> the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol agreed tonight that mark meadows committed the crime of contempt of coming and they voted unanimously to refer his case for criminal prosecution. mark meadows has been a variety of reasons for refusing to testify to the committee, ...