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. one last piece of late breaking news before we go. congress has just added a big piece of business for their calendar for tomorrow. at 9 a.m. the rules committee in the house is going to meet to take up this resolution recommending that trump white house chief of staff mark meadows be held in contempt. this was added to that committee as calendar late tonight, shortly after the january 6th very long voted unanimously to make that contempt referral. the rules committee will hear that at 9:00 ...

The january 6th committee voting to hold mark meadows in contempt but what do the revelations mean for the people to hold people for the effort to hold people accountable i should say. joining me to discuss kirsten powers and stewart stevens, the former chief strategists for the romney presidential campaign. good evening to you both. kirsten, chairman thompson saying our democracy was inches from ruin. look, i think that was an under statement, right? i think it was a fraction from a seconds awa...

Tried everything we could to our objection to the sixth state. nothing worked." meadows responding to the contempt vote overnight. >> my part, i tried to share nonprivileged information but truly the executive privilege donald trump has claimed is his to waive. >> reporter: mark meadows said he wont testify, citing execute privilege clawing the process unjust, unwise and unfair. >> all right, first of all, lets talk about the contempt charges, if meadows does end up getting voted towards contemp...

What senator manchin is doing and the next time we see each other there may be action to talk about with regard to that. you have put a lot on our viewers minds. thank you for being in "focus." lets get back to the breaking news now. there has been a full house floor vote that weve been expecting to happen this afternoon and were still standing by for that on whether to refer former white house chief of staff mark meadows under president trump to the justice department for criminal contempt. now...

Working with mr. clark. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. january 6th was without precedent. there has been no stronger case in our nations history for a congressional investigation into the actions of a former president. this investigation is not like other congressional inquiries. our constitution, the structure of our institutions and the rule of law, which are at the heart of what makes america great are at stake. we cannot be sa...

It has gone too far and gotten out of hand." >> reporter: also texts from several fox news hosts who just hours later would publicly downplay the insurrection, including laura ingraham. >> "this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. ." >> reporter: and sean hannity: >> "can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol?" >> reporter: cheney suggested the former president may have illegally obstruct an official protding of congress, which is a felony. >> did donald trump, thro...

Remain in office are not things that you do as president. you do that is a candidate. again, prosecutors are weighing what are the facts of the committee is trying to look at, and do they generally fall under privilege? and the committee will also look at the fact that he also spoke, through his documents but then decided not to speak in person. >> i know lawyer, but im pretty sure executive privilege wasnt designed to cover conversations with sean hannity. to hold him accountable for this prett...

Former president, and given the committee a fresh burst of momentum. they had kind of been interviewing people behind the scenes. no one eweknew what their work do was doing from an outside perspective. and mitch mcconnell, hes also interested to see who is involved in all of this. >> how about liz cheney, having to be this not lone voice but pretty close to lone voice in the woods there, and reading her colleagues, her republican colleagues text messages outloud to make the case that they have ...

Because he is instruct by the former president but i think a clear case of federal contempt of congress. >> i want to be clear. the text messages that were read and that he has already turned over, they were specifically labeled as not privileged by his attorney. am i correct on that? >> yes. according to his attorney and to mr. meadows, all of the documents he gave was not privileged. if they had been privileged, they would have decline to turn them over but they acknowledge they are not. of co...

Wholl not speak to the committee, hes happy to go on tv shows to talk about it. last night he was on fox news. >> lets be clear about this sean, this was not about me and holding me in contempt. its not about making the capitol safe or we see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on right now. this is about donald trump and actually going after him once again continuing to go after donald trump and when we look at the real results of this investigation, its not really the foundation...