including some of our own colleagues on the day of the violent attack and we ve learned that many of those interactions took place on a personal cell phone device so we need to ask mark meadows about that. mr. meadows himself has acknowledged that he has responsive and non-privileged documents and communications. he sent some of them to us. he filed others in court. it certainly appears that mr. meadows played a key role in events that cull resulted on the attack of our democracy. he must physical low the lay and cooperate with the lawful requests of this committee or face the consequences and that s why as much as we might personally like mr. meadows, we have to take this action today because no one is above the law. thank you, mr. chairman.
necessary to inform our legislative judgments yet he s refused to give any testimony at all. even regarding non-privileged topics. he s in contempt of congress. mr. meadows also has knowledge regarding president trump s efforts to persuade state officials to alter their official election results. in georgia for instance, mr. meadows participated on a phone call between president trump and georgia secretary of state raffensperger. meadows was on the phone when president trump asked the secretary of state to quote find 11,780 votes to change the result of the presidential election in georgia. we know from the texts mr. meadows turned over at the time of that call, he appears to have been texting other participants on the call. again, mr. meadows has no conceivable privilege basis to
i join my colleagues in urging an i vote on this resolution and i yield back. gentle lady yields back. no further debate, i recognize the gentle woman from wyoming, ms. cheney for a motion. mr. chairman, i move that the committee favorably report to the house, the committee s report on a resolution recommending the house of representatives find mark randall meadows in contempt of congress for refusing to compile with the subpoena duly issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. the question is on the motion to favorably report to the house. those in favor say i. i. i. those opposed say no. in opinion of the chair, the is have it. mr. chairman, i request a recorded vote. a recorded vote is requested. the clark will call the role.
it s been reporting during the leadup to january 6th, the white house was directing the department of justice to ichb vest gate outrageous conspiracy theories to seed doubt about the election and as a predicate for overturning of the election and the replacement of electors. this was to benefit mr. trump s effort to overturn the election. we need to talk to mark meadows about that as the vice chair has mentioned mr. meadows made a surprise visit to the state run audit in georgia which preceded the infamous call she recited where the then president asked the secretary of state to go find votes. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows interacted with a lot of people allegedly
i yield back. chair lady yields back. i now call up the report on a reolution recommending the house of representatives find mark randall meadows in contempt of congress for refusal to compile with the subpoena duly issued by the seect committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. the report was circulated in advance and printed copies are available. the clerk should designate the report. report on a resolution recommending that the house of representatives find mark randall meadows in contempt of congress for refusal to compile with the subpoena dually issued by the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. without objection, the report will be considered as read and open to amendment at any point.