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Tight-lipped. it's not appropriate for prosecutors to discuss who they're prosecuting or who they're investigating. you do that either by an indictment or deciding you don't have a case. and all of that is done to protect the reputation of individuals. so i don't know what they're up to, but this is a separate matter. the committee needs to find these facts not only to report to the american people, but also to inform us as to what further legislative steps we'll need to take to help prevent something like this from ever happening again. we came very close to overturning our democracy on janua...

Last hour. the district attorney in washington, d.c., excuse me. attorney general in washington, d.c. announce add civil lawsuit against the proud boys and oathkeepers and several mens of both groups individually accusing them of planning the attack on the capitol. d.c. is suing for damping consulting the groups' actions "a coordinated act of domestic terrorism" this at the house votes later today to hold former chief of staff mark meadows in contempt. referring to the justice department for eventual legal prosecution. for more joined by former u.s. attorney and current msnbc legal analyst. ch...

>> it is just different matter when you're dealing with a white house chief of staff. so likely we're talking about, you know, they carve it up differently in this report making the case that there are a few statements in a few different types of communications where, yeah, he's misbehaving. but at the end of the day, he's gist in a different place where bannon from day one made clear that he was not going to comply. mark meadows did comply for part of the time and then changed his mind. now if you are the justice department, you have to be able to say if we brought this contempt charge in fro...

He's not a yule joule. he's not of that ilk of the law. what's going on? >> so, it is hard to understand exactly what their motivations are, but according to mr. terwilliger, their strategy was to participate as much as possible with the committee to avoid a contempt charge while still respecting the assertion of executive privilege by mark meadows's former boss, former president trump. so mark meadows is stuck, perhaps, between a rock and a hard place here. he doesn't want to offense or alienate his former boss who has said not to cooperate with the committee and has exerted executive privile...

Scheduled or announced. we do expect that at some point and for now we's being briefed, and we should get images of that shortly after this briefing end in the oval office. john? >> jeff zeleny, sure we'll be back to you momentarily when we do hear from the president. up next, when the president does speak, we'll bring you that has son as possible and the january 6th committee prepares its contempt charge against the trump chief of staff mark meadows. take care of that heart with lipton. because sippin' on unsweetened lipton can help support a healthy heart. lipton. stop chuggin'. start sipp...