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Read a series of frantic text messages from january 6th aloud. messages pleading with meadows to convince his boss to do something about this. barricades, attacking officers, smashing through windows, and pushing through doors. >> as the violence continued, one of the presidents sons texted mr. meadows. quote, hes got to condemn this shut asap. the capitol police is not enough, donald trump, jr., texted. meadows responded, quote, im pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immedi...

Which fox news personality he was in communication with. they told us about which members of the trump family meadows was in touch with. those members of congress have still not been revealed, but you can bet that it will be a big part of this investigation as they go forward. laura and christine? >> all right, ryan, thank you for that. now, one of the more remarkable messages to meadows came from one of those unnamed lawmakers. as congressman schiff pointed out, the person was more concerned ...

Him about privileged information, he had no choice but to not show up. >> you think thats the case even when hes talking about conversations that -- hes relation conversations he had with potus. he says, i talked to trump and trump thinks x. trump thinks the vp can flip the election. you think he hasnt waived privilege there? >> he cant waive privilege. the only person that can waive privilege is the president. biden has waived the privilege. meadows cant waive the privilege that exists with the...

Information. >> you know, thats right. i do think that the committee has made a point of talking about how many dozens or hundreds of people already have cooperated. it does seem that they have a number of text or email communications, other communications that theyll be piecing together to try to have an understanding of do they have half of a conversation and not the other half. >> yeah. >> but ultimately they are facing two challenges. what will people willfully turnover and how much time do ...

Up to january 6th. and on january 6th, people pleading with him to do something to convince donald trump to tell his supporters to back away from that riot at the capitol. now, this is all part of the committees case that theyre building for this criminal contempt referral. yes, the committee believes that meadows is in contempt, but its not ultimately their decision. it will ultimately be a decision of a jury of meadows peers. his situation is different than steve bannon or jeffrey clark, forme...

Time for our top stories to keep an eye on today. after months of investigation into the capitol riot probes, the january 6 committee voted unanimously to hold trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress for defying the panel subpoena. the full house could vote decide whether to send it to the justice department. >> texts messages received during the riot as well as donald trump, jr., fox news personalities and white house officials, they all begged meadows to get the president t...

Supreme court says about it. >> so meadows would be the second person held in contempt if the full house agrees. how do you think the justice department will act? >> i think this is a pretty straightforward case because of meadows wholesale refusal to show up. he has non-privileged testimony that the committee wants. and notwithstanding any good faith disagreements about executive privilege protected communications. there is a whole host of information that the committee has set forth that they ...

Laura, first the headline. for the third time, the january 6 select committee has voted out of their committee a referral of criminal contempt of someone with a close association to the former president donald trump. this time someone who is as close as it gets, his former chief of staff mark meadows who has now defied the committees request to sit before them at a deposition. thats the most tangible piece of information that came out of monday night. but we learned so much more about the broade...

Election set aside. >> certainly the implication, but it does seem that we need that connective tissue, right, michael? it does seem thats going to be the next link. if the committee manages to actually talk to meadows or talk to others around him who can sort of fill in the picture here. but put on the defense hat. i know youre a former prosecutor, but pretend youre representing meadows. youve already released these thousands of pages of documents. what is your strongest ground to claim executi...

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