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Processing it in time to do something with it prior to the elections if the house goes by jerry gerrymandering, the probe will stop. they are running against the clock to tie this together. >> i see you ron brownstein wanting to get in shaking your head. if meadows doesnt show tomorrow, hell be the third person held in contempt. on the other hand, you have mark short who is cooperating and jamie gangel is reporting he might be able to share texts that he exchanged with other white house official...

Leading up to it. im sure what hes turned over already is important to helping build that kind of timeline and then connection thats theyre looking for. but that testimony would be important, and the kind of questions he would be asked could go -- >> before i bring the counselor in, lets go back through this. publicly, again, mark meadows is trying to sell books. publicly as like this on fox news last night, donald trump acted perfectly. >> not only did donald trump want to make sure the nationa...

Meadows hold back. not thoroughly surprising, but it does follow his sharing of substantive potentially records and documents. >> thats right, and i think we actually talked about this on your show last week. when he was planning on participating, it was a little unclear just how im forthcoming he was going to be. he seemed to at that point try and thread the needle between basically not being held in contempt as bannon was, but not actually giving anything up and anchoring former president trum...

You sponsoring. alex jones the oath keeper is the proud boys. there were deadlines for documents from them, for any of them. have you received those documents? >> i cant comment on the specifics, im afraid, until we disclose peoples non-compliance and the decision to move forward with contempt. when people do cooperate, you are often much here. because we generally only go public when we run into obstruction. to to this point i chance answer that question great. >> ill let folks read the tea lea...

Youve waived it. here is the only way mark meadows can avoid a criminal contempt referral. he has to go before the house select committee. begin answering questions and then if the questions get into territory that arguably enjoys an executive privilege, then he can start invoking executive privilege, you know what? you cant put this stuff in a book, disclose it publicly and then say, but im not going to share it with the house select committee. thats a recipe for a criminal referral to contempt...

Hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt. the committee also revealing new details from emails and text messages that they obtained from meadows which include a 38-page powerpoint presentation on, quote, options for the 6th of january. plus, right now, closing arguments are under way in the trial against jussie smollett. prosecutors are wrapping -- just wrapped up moments ago. the defense will try to convince a jury next that the actor did not fake a hate crime. stay with us...

Have mark meadows to testify, but its not fatal to the investigation if he doesnt. >> anyone what communicated with meadows on january 6 or the days around it, theyve got to be nervous tonight about they said. do you think it will prompt others to come forward? >> i think it does. i think also the fear of what happens if the committee does come trying to speak with you, and they dont comply. they made clear that they will attempt to hold people in contempt. mark meadows might be a more challengi...

Last year at christmas, the public follow the rules, and many of them didnt see their loved ones over christmas. some of them didnt see their loved ones again. they had the right to expect the government to follow the rules, and we now know the government broke the rules, they partied, and now theyre laughing about it. theyre treating the public with contempt. boris johnson has tried i to lead us a merry dance, tried to claim that these things didnt happen. i his position, i would have to say, i...

Officials from the trump administration have spoken to several of the issues the committee would like to speak with you about. it does make it tricky. one thing though is that by holding him in criminal contempt are voting to hold him in criminal contempt, if the house is successful and the justice department does bring up before grand jury, mark meadows could face deep finds. he could face jail time. that doesnt mean that actually ever have to give over any information. so, he could be punished...

Christmas lunch or parties. the labour leader keir starmer has accused the prime minister of "taking the public for fools" and treating them with "contempt". 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. party? what party? the party that number 10 said didn�*t happen. in the building where boris johnson said tight covid rules were always followed. the party last year that a guest told us had food, drinks and games, and the party we now seem to see downing street staffjoking about a few days l...