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Finding out, the committee has a lot of information and a lot of people that will corroborate stories or will say, no, thats not quite what happened. and oh, by the way, heres my phone log. he may just be in over his head and is realizing that fighting this and dragging it out is his only chance right now. >> that reporting is from politico. cnn has not been able to confirm some of those details but let me move on to the meadows squirming, as amanda calls it. and elie, this lawsuit that was file...

I think they feel like theyre in a good position for this. the volume were talking about is extraordinary and will be challenging for anybody, but this was the behind-the-scenes work that was frankly part of the committees answer or defense to people like me when we would ask why there werent more public hearings, why we werent seeing more in public. they would tell us, we are staffing up, we are hiring and preparing for what could be a lengthy and very thorough investigation. now will be the ch...

For testimony that he had been subpoenaed to give this morning. the investigation says that mark meadows is, therefore, likely to be found in contempt. hes potentially going to be criminally prosecuted for contempt. but mr. meadows ended the day today by suing the committee thats conducting the investigation in what appears to be an effort to drag this thing out, to slow it down. on top of that, in another surprise today we also learned that before mr. meadows decided to bail on his subpoenas an...

Parallel track to hold the obstructionists accountable, holding a vote in the full house to find donald trumps former chief of staff, mark meadows, in contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoena for his testimony. lets bring into our coverage nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, maya wylie, and donny deutsch. garrett haake, tell me what youre hearing about both the days developments but first this ruling from the appeals court. >> reporter: well, nicole, the bottom line here ...

And so obviously theyre still doing the studies on the youngest, youngest of the clinical trial participants. we should have that data hopefully imminently. >> doctor, thank you. antonia, thank you as well. i want to turn now to capitol hill, everybody, where the standoff is intensifying between former trump chief of staff mark meadows and the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. meadows is now suing the committee and asking a federal court to invalidate two subpo...

Sitting down. theyve already said were not backing down from this. were driving forward. what is that going to look like? >> thats right. the committee chair and vice chair called it a flawed lawsuit they insist will not stop the committee or slow it down from the investigation and getting to the truth. and they further say that the house will meet next week. the committee, rather, to vote to hold mark meadows in contempt. that, of course, would follow the same process as they used on steve bann...

Whats your reaction to jamies reporting about the text messages and e-mails that meadows was apparently exchanging during the attack. >> its fascinating, ana, because we know that he actually held back thousands of e-mails and texts claiming privileges even at that time, so the fact that these are what he decided to release and that they are so interesting and explosive to the committee makes me want to say i hope the committee is actually able to get ahold of what he decided not to turn over be...

Lets talk about mark meadows. his legal argument is quite frankly perplexing, right, elliott? he has already turned over documents. and here he is now reversing. what is going on with this lawsuit that he has against the committee? >> one, hes trying not to testify. i think thats pretty clear. number two, trying to avoid getting charged with a crime. because if they end up slapping him with contempt proceeding he can go back and say, look, i have been suing to protect my fourth amendment rights....

Should be a democratic one partisan thing. today in the january 6th investigation, the investigation to the violent attack of trump supporters on the capitol in january to try and stop the election being certified. today former president trumps white house chief of staff mark meadows declined to appear for testimony that he had been subpoenaed to give this morning. the investigation says that mark meadows is therefore likely to be found in contempt, he is potentially going to be criminally prose...

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