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Also, ken cuccinelli, former second in command at the department of homeland security, telling cnn he spoke with the house january 6th committee last week. he tells us that when asked by members he identified topics he discussed with the former president but declined to answer more detailed questions about the discussions. he says the committee also wanted to know about his conversations with former chief of staff mark meadows. as you know, the senate reported january 6th has already placed cucc...

January 6th has already placed cuccinelli at numerous oval office meetings at which plans to overturn election results were discussed. we also learned the former presidents sometime confidant roger stone will appear before the select committee tomorrow. his lawyer today saying stone will take the fifth. meantime, everything else weve learned so far this week continues to grow and impact. the process of holding meadows in contempt of congress, it revealed a lot including the remarkable fact that ...

Maybe the prospect of jail time — however remote — will be enough to compel Meadows to tell lawmakers what he knows about the events of that day, and what role Trump and his administration might have played.

Jill, you have had a chance to read this 52-page report. what do you make of the committees legal rationale for holding meadows in criminal contempt? >> it is very strong, alicia. and thats, of course, i have perused it for oh, just the few minutes that its been available, but it is clear that theres no executive privilege, that this is a delay tactic on the part of meadows. that he knows for the than this. that the court ruling from the court of appeals about the january 6th documents only stre...

Officials, to does overturning certain states counting of electoral college results. and later, by the way, this also details that madows was the one who sent that john eastman memo to the vice presidents staff, telling him options, basically, all unconstitutional, as how the former vice president could object to election results on january 6th. i mean, theres a lot to get into here, but this of course was the last resort from the committee. they did not want to hold meadows in contempt of congr...

Executive privilege that he is asserting for why he cannot testify before the committee. remember, last week, he actually told the committee that hes done cooperating, hes not appearing for his scheduled deposition and the committee is going to vote on this contempt report tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. some of the things it says in here, meadows indicated in a january 5th email that the national guard was on standby to, quote, protect pro-trump people. you and i both know, as somebody who was in the bui...

Matter, why mark meadows should be referred to the justice department for contempt of congress. and then that is expected to be approved unanimously, meaning all members on the committee, including both republicans liz cheney and adam kinzinger are expected to vote for this report. and on tuesday, the full house could vote on this report and refer these charges, speaker nancy pelosi would refer these charges to the justice department where they could move to prosecute mark meadows. >> julie, you...

Do not expect you to have a deep and robust analysis on that just yet, given the rate at which we can all read and process this information. so i do want to ask you, do we know anything more? can we clarify the timing of this? >> all we know now, we have this report. and weve seen this with jeffrey clark and steve bannon, its kind of these steps that they have to take. theyre trying to outline a timeline here in this 51-page report, with all of the information that meadows willingly handed over ...

Reversal for meadows, who had been cooperating. cnn learned the documents included person text messages and e-mails with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway. a source with knowledge of the communications tells cnn 9 messages related to what trump was doing and not doing during the riot, offering a window into what people were texting to meadows, and what he was saying about trump in real time. the committee noting meadows handed them over without any claim of privilege. >> ...