privilege claim. that was the chairman of the committee investigating january 6th, benny thompson in the last hour addressing the house rules committee. they re discussing a resolution recommending mark meadows be held in contempt of congress. a full vote by the house is expected later today. last night the select committee voted to hold meadows in contempt over his refusal to testify after initially he did cooperate. the committee shared more details about the documents and text messages that meadows did turn over. that includes messages sent to him by former president trump s son and fox news hosts. we ve reached out to donald trump jr. about his messages. he has no comment. nbc news has also reached out to fox news. the network did not immediately respond to our request for comment. nbc s ali vitale is following this story from capitol hill.
compelled in his oath to our constitution, mr. meadows received numerous text messages, which he has produced without any privilege claim imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt the white house knew what was happening here at the capitol. the press and others wrote to mark meadows as the attack was underway. one text mr. meadows received said quote we are under siege here at the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol breaking windows on doors rushing in. is trump going to say something?
criminal contempt is a much bigger deal in the grand scheme of things but also as chief of staff on 1-6 he would say he has a stronger privilege claim. is that the case? or does him spelling all these beans in his new memoir undermine that claim? he does have a stronger case than bannon did but let s take a look at what the prosecutors have to weigh should the full house refer him to the u.s. attorney s office here in washington for possible contempt charges. they are going to look at the fact he did speak about many of these things publicly in his book and also that you can tell from the text messages and the things the committee wants to ask they want to talk about things that had nothing to do with running the country. keep in mind executive privilege is generally extended so that when you are in part of a deliberative process trying to run the federal government your decisions and decision making is not scrutinizing by people after you. that is a privilege we extend so people can
congressional investigation into the actions of a former president. we must investigate the facts in detail and we are entitled to ask mr. meadows about the non-privileged materials he has produced to us. any argument that the courts need to resolve privilege issues first is a pretext. we need to question him about emails and texts he has given us without any privilege claim. his role in the raffensperger call cannot be privileged. nor can his dealings with a member of this body regarding jeff clark. we must get to the objective truth and ensure that january 6th never happens again. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i yield back. thank you very much. thank you both for your testimony and for the work you are doing. maybe former chief of staff meadows should talk to former congressman meadows.
president trump. we must investigate the facts in detail and we are entitled to ask mr. meadows about the non-privileged materials that he has produced to us. any argument that the courts need to resolve privilege issues first is a pretext. we need to question him about e-mails and texts he has given us without any privilege claim. his role in the raffensperger call cannot be privileged, nor can his dealings with a member of this body regarding jeff clark. we must get to the objective truth and injury that january 6th never happens again. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i yield back. well, thank you very much. and thank you, both, for your testimony and for the work you re doing. you know, maybe former chief of staff meadows should talk to former congressman meadows. you know, when he was serving