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This country, the justice department doesnt seem actively engaged on that front.th cef they appear to be going after t the rioters themselves only, but congresswoman liz cheney is making it clear tonight the january 6th investigation is paying close attention to how this all happened and specifically the question of whether or not former president trump himself could be criminally liable for what happened.ent this is part of what the investigation wants to talk to mark meadows about.s listen to ...

Of potential criminal liability for not just former officials but currently serving members. >> yeah, and youve already seen some people actually being prosecuted for real crimes. i think we forget that because at this point it is such a common parlance. mark meadows is the third person to be held in criminal contempt in this investigation. but that is not a line as one gop lawyer said to me that you want in the first sentence of your obituary. and that is exactly whats happening to steve bannon...

Committee that he anticipates potential criminal prosecution related to these matters. and intends in upcoming testimony to invoke his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination. as mr. meadows nonprivileged texts reveal, meadows communicated multiple times with a member of congress who was working with mr. clark.f mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. >> clark has informed the committee he anticipates potential criminal prosecution related to th...

I mean, thats what trumps call to georgias secretary of state was about on january 2nd. mark meadows was on that call. that call was all about pressuring and bullying georgias secretary of state into overturning bidens win in georgia.ia and, you know, its a crime to intimidate or attempt to influence election officials in conducting their official duties. trumps currently under criminal investigation by a state prosecutor in georgia for that call. and for his other attempts to interfere with the...

Preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. the upshot of the contempt report on mark meadows is that in those weeks preceding january 6th, mark meadows was neck deep in those efforts and that plot to disrupt and delay and ultimately overturn the election results. his attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim to say that he cant talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions wi...

With, and now were seeing these new conspiracy theories that meadows was actively considering and engaging in and peddling, quite frankly, to some of the lawmakers. we asked lawmakers, though, right after the hearing who these lawmakers are exactly. we dont know yet. of course, we do know people like congressman jim jordan who is very close to mark meadows was on the phone with former president trump on january 6th. there are a few others who have also confirmed they were in communications. but ...

Includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with president trump. you cant sell a book based on your conversations with the es president and then claim you cannot talk about those ti conversations with the president when subpoenaed to do so by the united states congress.ti again, its either privileged or its not. if youve already conceded its not privileged by writing about it in your book and handing over 9,000 documents you cant after the fact then say those things are cover...

Tomorrow, is a contempt report that investigators prepared on mark meadows. in that report, they laid out all the ways in which mark meadows failed to comply with their subpoenas, all the reasons he has to comply with their subpoenas, but also all the reasons why it was so important the investigation needed to talk to him and get access to his documents. they say, quote, the select committee seeks information from mr. meadows central to its ththy investigative responsibilities.d the events of ja...

Joining us now is a political reporter for "the washington post," jackie alemany, who has been all over this story of the investigation and what its turned up thus far. thank you very much for being here. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> so tell me what you make of these references to members of congress. some of this struck me as new tonight. members of congress described as being in communication with the white house chief of staff basically about several different par...

Secretary of state. a visit to georgia during whichm mark meadows personally showed up at the site of an ongoing audit of the results. what is the white house chief of staff doing physically, personally, looming over an audit in a swing state? well, earlier this month we learned that one trump lawyer john eastman had personally called up the republican speaker of the house in arizona. he reportedly called legislative staff in arizona as well pressuring them to go along with this plan in arizona ...