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Was against the law and was a crime. and he said, i love it. >> where have we heard that before, lawrence? if i can give you stolen information on hillary clinton, would you like to receive it, donald trump junior says if its true i love it. these guys love crime when it comes to elections. and i would love to see them all held accountable. and its not just a legal obligation that mark meadows has. because his lawsuit will go nowhere. he will be held in contempt, and i believe the department of ...

Insignificant thing. he will be the first former member of the house to be held in contempt by the house of representatives. thats quite an ignoble distinction for this guy who, you know, prides himself on being a former member of congress. so it makes no sense. the only explanation here is that donald trump is livid. hes livid at what happened when meadows book came out, the way he was portrayed, the suggestion that he went into that debate covid positive, that he hid that information. now, kee...

Courts. the courts acted so slowly. we didnt hear the testimony when it was required by the house. this took almost two years. we did end up ultimately hearing a testimony from inside the senate on trial when he was up first time for impeachment. there were so many times that the congressional investigators wanted to hear from people around the president and because president trump used the course and use these claims to delay it, as you say, and put things off it lost traction. and it succeeded...

In washington d.c.. and the circuit court of appeal in washington d.c.. and the system that steve bannon, roger stone, jeffrey clark, mark meadows are all playing because they know that that judicial system will give them all of the delay, the months of delay, possibly the years of delay, that they are looking for. >> lawrence, we saw this before. we saw the testimony after the mueller report came out. and the run up the clock. they kept taking a knee until the term expired and the voters went t...

Bannon, who is being charged with contempt, wanted a trial in october. we all know that the goal is to delay these issues from coming to court and being decided until the midterms. the hope is that if the gop takes over the house, then the january 6th investigation is derailed. but so far, the dc courts dont seem to be letting them get away with that strategy. in trumps lawsuit on executive privilege, the federal district court decided that in a month. the appellate court heard the argument in a...

>> meadows fiercely pushing back against the committee after earlier having some level of cooperation. we know trump cant be happy with him or his new book. is he trying to get back in the former presidents good graces? what is this all about? >> as a legal strategy it makes no sense what he was doing because, as you point out, he already turned over a lot of documents. he already said he was going to testify. he already, you know, turned over those emails, text messages, private emails, not jus...

A alacrity. i was surprised by the lawsuit. i dont think it will do him any good. >> ryan nobles on capitol hill. >> reporter: there was a lot of news on the select committee. perhaps the most important and biggest news was bennie thompson did say the committee is prepared to move forward with the criminal contempt referral of the white house chief of staff mark meadows as soon as next week. now, this is despite the fact that meadows filed a lawsuit against the committee in d.c. district court o...

Is what the prosecution are saying, this is a woman who had 26 years of experience and how could she not have known which gun to use? she is charged with two manslaughter charges for his death. lets get some of the days other news. donald trumps former chief of staff has filed a lawsuit against the congressional committee which has charged him with contempt over his refusal to testify in the investigation of the january capitol riots. mark meadows specifically names the democratic leader of the ...

Between the committee and meadows. now he is almost certainly going to be held in contempt by the full congress. by the way, don, not an insignificant thing. he will be the first former member of the house to be held in contempt by the house of representatives. thats quite an ignoble distinction for this guy who, you know, prides himself on being a former member of congress. so it makes no sense. the only explanation here is that donald trump is livid. hes livid at what happened when meadows boo...

With the committee. what we know about what went down behind closed doors and what we know about those not cooperating, and when the house plans to hold mark meadows in contempt. if nancy pelosi takes a question on this, youll see it right here live. plus nbc news conducting an investigation into the trump investigation, the new york ag looking to talk to donald trump himself about fraud inside his business. when that might happen and how the former president is responding. would it surprise you...