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Light of the book he just put out about trump which had plenty of pretty horrible and unflattering things to say about trump and his covid illness. what more are you learning about the lawsuit tonight? >> well, in this lawsuit, erin, his lawyers argue that these subpoenas are overly broad and that the committee lacks the true authority to obtain this kind of information. but those arguments have already been rejected by the courts in other matters related to the 16 committee. now, the lawyer als...

In criminal contempt. that will make meadows the third former-trump official that the committee will vote to hold in contempt. clearly, there is this pattern here and there is a strategy by trumps closest allies. delay, distract long enough to kill the committee and its investigation. it is important to note that this total breakdown between meadows and the committee comes after meadows did, initially, cooperate as cheney just said, right? he handed over very important e-mails and text exchanges...

Chiefs chief jointly now. right before we came to air congressman bennie thompson, liz cheney, called your lawsuit flawed adding they will continue supporting contempt charges against you, your response tonight. >> obviously congress is going to do what they intended to do. you told me in contempt, this lawsuit goes to the heart of the matter, the fact is we have been trying for weeks and weeks to make accommodations, to share nonprivileged information while protecting the executive privilege do...

Are individuals who probably know a lot. we mentioned earlier jamie gengel mentioned ali alexander the head of the quote-unquote, stop the steal organization or at least associated with it. kash patel. are any of these very, very strong pro trump partisans behind the scenes cooperating exactly as you want them to? >> the answer is yes. there are hundreds of people some whose names are known well because they are in the news, some who were very close to the same people who are well known, who saw...

Tiger woods announced hes returning to golf in a tournament with his son ten months after that horrific car crash. the question is could an official tour be next? its "way too early" for this. ♪♪ goo morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that loves a good comeback. im jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 9th. well start with the news. former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows is now suing house speaker nancy pelosi and the committee investigating the january 6th...

Titled "election fraud, foreign interference and options for 6 jan." meadows isnt the only witness stonewalling the committee. roger stone now plans to plead the 5th, joining other high profile targets telling the committee they do not plan to answer questions because they could incriminate themselves. the committee also skeptical of this resistance. >> if they are asserting the 5th merely to cater to the presidents whims or cover up for the president, that is not a proper use of the privilege. ...

With fox. >> obviously, congress is going to do what they were already intended to do, which is hold me in contempt. the fact is, weve been trying for weeks and weeks to make accommodations to share nonprivileged, and i want to stress that, nonprivileged information while protecting the executive privilege that president trump has claimed. we received a subpoena that went to our telecommunication carrier that was so broad that you would have to do some type of legislative contortions to find a l...

Minutes, the january 6th committee has announced that on monday night, when members are back, they will meet to begin the process of holding mark meadows in contempt. weve seen this process play out a couple of times. the committee will vote monday night. i suspect they will be unanimous and we could see a vote by the full house as early as tuesday to refer that contempt referral to the department of justice. theyre part of this process can take as long as they deem necessary. but that hearing m...

To, or best way to get on his good side again is to make sure that you go out of your way to be trumpian in that way. show youre on his side and this seems like a part of that aspect, but as was just said, they are continuing to lean on this executive privilege argument. its one that may run out of steam. it can only be taken away if theres a ruling on that. thats what were see and really interesting is mark meadows is a former member of congress, and what he knows is that congress has to be abl...

>> theres so much here. meadows is the third person that the committee is moving against for criminal contempt referral after steve bannon and jeffrey clark. trumps allies are doing all they can to stone wall this. it looks like the strategy is to run out the clock here. do you think that is going to work? >> well, it is, but of course the court of appeals in d.c. does have a case where the former president is asserting executive privilege, and they would rule, you know, conceivably prior to at ...