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Here, and you cant keep violating it. >> well, they have to at least show up. if they want to plead the fifth when they show up, thats fine. but they have to comply with the subpoena and come before congress. put the documents out there or else, you know, the justice department needs to be aggressive and prove that no one is above the law. >> i mean, i fully agree with everything you -- the premise of your question, everything david said. my fear is that if this is a race against the clock, the ...

Its not exactly kwleeclear wha these emails mean. theyll help to illustrate why the committee is so interested in talking to meadows. meadows will be referred to the justice department for criminal contempt. it will be up to the justice department and the attorney general whether they want to proceed with formal charges. they have charged steve bannon with contempt. that kes was different for a couple reasons. first of all, he was not a white house official on january 6th. he also didnt engage a...

Tonight, theres news on the investigation of the january 6th attack. former president trumps chief of staff, mark meadows, announced he will no longer cooperate with the investigation. hes putting himself there be on a course to potentially be criminally prosecuted for contempt, if he continues to refuse to testify and refuses to hand over documents on what happened to the lead-up of january 6th. one legal adviser to trump, theyre already pleading the fifth in the investigation. no signs that ma...

Have hard evidence about in the form of phone records. these records are incredibly valuable and more over, look at the fact yesterday mike pences chief of staff mark short word of his cooperation came up. thats an individual who can fill a lot of this information in. yes, it would be incredibly valuable to have mark meadows testify but its not fatal to the investigation if he doesnt. >> elliott, another question. anyone who communicated with meadows on january 6th or the days around it have to ...

>> so why complain? i mean, honestly at this point, if its totally fake, this is just so sure trail. which is. then why with the rest of us have any kind of obligation to play along with it? honestly? >> we should it, but congress has the issue to issue criminal contempt. normally they dont go anyway on such charades of this. but the department of justice is fully in line. theyve already brought one criminal indictment against one of the people that refused to comply. >> that was john eastman, t...

Prize winning author with "the washington post," jonathan carl, abc news, his most recent book "betrayal: the final act of the trump show" is in its second week as a "new york times" best seller, having made a lot of news, and claire mccaskill is with us, former democratic senator from the state of missouri. welcome to you all. ashley, i want to start with you and the reaction youre measuring to meadows pullback not thoroughly surprising, but it does follow his sharing of substantive, potentiall...

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Winds, the limitations, what will come of it? will there be criminal referrals made to doj for things other than contempt of conscious, actual actions. . >> it certainly could be. you have to set up all the facts for the referral, really important. and you cant do it on, you know, press reporting and other things. thats why that meta data is important. if there are five key figures that surface to the top about those calls during the actual raiding of congress, those people -- then theyre going ...

Staff mark meadows may soon find himself in the very same legal fight as steve bannon. today, january 6th committee chairman bennie thompson announced he has no choice but to move forward with contempt of congress charges after meadows stopped cooperating with the committee. joining us to discuss, ryan nobles. meadows case is different from bannons because meadows actually provided the committee with some documents, right? >> thats right, jake. 6,000 documents in total, and he also has expressed...

Couldnt be used against them, they can be used to prosecute them. prosecutors dont rely on that testimony, it can complicate matters for a prosecution. we want to make sure nothing we do would interview with what the department of justice would be pursuing. if we decided to give a witness testimonial immunity, then they couldnt come in and take this any longer. they would be compelled to answer. if they still refuse, they can be prosecuted for contempt. if they have a criminal belief that testim...