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The january 6th select committee is preparing to refer a potential witness for criminal contempt. tonight the committee will meet to vote on seeking a contempt of congress charge against former white house chief of staff mark meadows who initially showed an interesting cooperating before backing away. f. you believe he had a privilege to assert, he could have shown up. he could have said with respect to the question, heres why i believe its privileged. of course, he didnt do any of that. >> repo...

Meadows, he defied the subpoenas and is suing investigators in an attempt to withhold critical information under the guise of executive privilege. bring us up-to-date on what we can expect from this report? >> we expect the contempt report to come out any minute now, and thats because they have to give mark meadows 24 hours before that vote to hold him in contempt, and i am checking my phone to make sure we do not miss it during this hit. it will include some of the back and forth they have had ...

Operating on a timeline. the reality is bs republicans will probably flip the house and once that happens forget about the trump investigation and january 6th. if they hold him in contempt, it will take a long time, possibly early next fall until his trial is under way. that doesnt help the committee when theyre trying to wrap things up before elections. >> december 31, 2022 may be the last day the investigation happens. we will see if it is wrapped up before then. we will see the things happeni...

Cooperation and that we know what might happen with another coup beyond next mid-terms elections and presidential elections? >> the goal of the january 6th committee is to finish before the mid-terms next year. now, because of delays in the federal judiciary and because of trump enablers figuring out how to take advantage of those delays, its not clear theyre going to be able to interview all the witnesses they want to interview, which is why i think we have to invoke the power of inherent conte...

There is that analysis based on the way they are redistricting and gerrymandering right now. you have the january 6th committee that is basically -- it essentially will have an expiration date to get their work done. do you think that they will be able to finish with all of the legal speed bumps that trumps people keep throwing down with denying their requests for interviews and cooperation and that we know what might happen with another coup beyond next midterms elections and presidential elect...

Policies. you know, they work the same agenda. certainly very difficult, and in terms of the politics, the place where mike pence has the most separation or where it is most clear and where voters are going to be reminded of it month after month after month is that certification of the votes in the january 6th riot, because youve got a house select committee talking about it constantly, still doing subpoenas and holding people in contempt for not complying with them as you were showing in the re...

>> he might get indicted, the justice department that ultimately will decide to indict him. but even if that goes through the process, he may never actually testify. how big of a blow do you think this is to the committee? he turned over these documents. we dont know what are in the documents he turned over to the committee, but him not giving a first account of what happened? >> he was a central witness. he was with the president as the january 6th siege on the capitol was ongoing. he was talki...

Fully grasped. >> i think three bullet points from this powerpoint that i have been able to glean is they wanted pence to reject electors from states that they believed were fraudulent. they also thought that if he did that, they would just replace them with friendly republican electors or just outright delay altogether certification of that vote on january 6th. those are the three big points i have taken away. but my question relative to you with mark meadows, so he stopped cooperating with the...

Who knows what mark meadows was thinking, which is why he needs to testify before the january 6th committee, and because he stopped cooperating i believe the house is going to hold him in contempt. and were at a very dangerous time in our democracy, where you had people who were planning a coup who are not being held accountable. >> do you feel, congressman, that we, right now, both our democracy and certainly this congress -- you know, we are on borrowed time? and i only ask that from the conte...