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A fourth, and i quote, potus needs to calm this [ bleep ] down. indeed, according to the records, multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.co they texted mr. meadows, and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, brian kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a stat...

Of the committee showed up and the lead counsel for the investigation laid out for the record all the questions they le would have asked mark meadows had he bothered to appear. quote, we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from members of congress, including text messages received from a member of congress in november, 2020, regarding efforts to contact state r.ge legislators because, as mr. meadows indicates in his text messages, quote, potus, meaning the president, wan...

The u.s. capitol was under attack on january 6th. these are texts, she says, that are evidence the white house knew exactly what was going on in real time at the u.s. capitol on the 6th. listen to this. this is pretty stunning stuff. >> this vote on contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and does not have any privilege basis to refuse entirely to testify regarding thes...

Ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. as the violence continued, one of the presidents sons texted mr. meadows, quote, hes got to condemn this [ bleep ] asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough, donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, im pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and go...

Contempt. they all spoke. they each gave individual remarks laying out why it was so important to this investigation that they hear from mark meadows.ke they also punctuated how gravely serious and unusual a decision this was tonight. this is the first time a former member of congress has been held in contempt since the 1800s. so even if tonight had been just that it would have been a big news story, but beyond that, the vice chair of the committee i tonight, republican congresswoman liz cheney ...

Learn more over the course of this hour. but were going to start tonight with some breaking news from washington. tonight the january 6th investigation has voted to hold trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in contempt. the committee holding him in contempt tonight means that tomorrow itll be the full house of representatives that will vote to refer him to the u.s. justice department for federal criminal prosecution for contempt.atte now, thatll be the justice t departments independent ...