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From last night. we went through the contempt proceeding and there's more than one issue on the table, but we also heard several members of committee really implore doj to act, and congressman schiff was just speaking about that and then there's those who have like bannon. basically members of this committee who are generally aligned or at least sympathetic to attorney general garland or the administration turning up the heat. take a look. >> this committee is doing its job. the department of justice needs to do theirs. >> the department of justice has a duty to act on this referral and others...

Forward with contempt and if the justice department follows through with charges, mark meadows would become the first former chief of staff to face prosecution since h.r. of the nixon administration. the problem for meadows in this contempt proceeding is he snitched on his team before he clammed up. he has turned over roughly 9,000 pages of documents that he himself claimed were not privileged but he's now refusing to answer questions about those very documents in defiance of a congressional subpoena. here is how chairman bennie thompson put it before the vote. >> when you produce records, you...

We don't take it lightly, we hoped we would not have to be here at all. as the chairman noted, we've engaged in weeks and weeks of discussions with mr. counsel. we worked diligently to reach an agreement on cooperation. we scheduled a deposition at a time and day of mr. meadows' choosing. shortly before the deposition was to occur, mr. meadows walked away from his commitment to appear and hehe informed us he would no longer cooperate. we think mr. meadows is improperly asserting executive and other privileges, but this contempt proceeding relates to mr. meadows' refusal to testify about the te...

0 defense. the court yesterday appointed a guardian to represent their son. they have seemingly abandoned him. have had no contact with him. have not seen him or spoken to him. obviously what lies ahead for their case, it's going to be a difficult one for prosecutors after they charge them with four counts of involuntary manslaughter arguing that they gave him the gun as a gift, but also saying that they did nothing to prevent him from unleashing this shooting, this attack. prosecutors saying they knew things were going on and they should have done stuff, that's why they charged them and we'll...

Even more vulnerable to pressure tactics for moscow. until reversal of a deal made last week with the january 6th select committee, former chief of staff to donald trump mark meadows announced that he would not appear today for his scheduled deposition. committee members immediately threatened to hold meadows in contempt of congress, arguing that he has no intention to speak to the panel as he writes a book. a joint statement by cheney and thompson reads, if indeed mr. meadows refuses to appear, the select committee will be left no choice but to advance contempt proceeding. meadows explained h...