the january 6th select committee is preparing to refer a potential witness for criminal contempt. tonight the committee will meet to vote on seeking a contempt of congress charge against former white house chief of staff mark meadows who initially showed an interesting cooperating before backing away. f. you believe he had a privilege to assert, he could have shown up. he could have said with respect to the question, here's why i believe it's privileged. of course, he didn't do any of that. >> reporter: the committee wants to ask meadows about the 6,000 documents he's already provided them. in their contempt report they write, mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send an alternate slate of electors to congress, a plan which one member of congress acknowledged was highly controversial and to which mr. meadows responded, i love it. the text exchange is just a small sample of the trove of information the committee believes meadows can provide