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Quote, would protect pro-trump people. his lawyer has not responded to that particular claim. i want to bring in leigh ann caldwell. leigh ann, tell us about will happen in the next 24 hours when it comes to mark meadows' request to congress, shall we say. >> reporter: they are going to send it to the full house of representatives. this is a step they've taken two times before in the past couple months. we saw that with steve bannon and we also saw it with jeffrey clark, a trump administration justice official. it comes on the heels of a 51-page contempt report which you referenced which reall...

Together. >> we take you to kentucky in a few minutes for an update there. and breaking news from capitol hill. the committee investigating the capitol attack just released its contempt report to hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress. joining me now for the latest, nbc news reporter julie circumstancen is in washington with more. julie, tell us, what is in this report? >> reporter: yeah, alicia, the committee -- the january 6th select committee just dropped this report in the last 50 minutes or so. there's a lot of information in here, and most of it coming from...

Role in the three-hour delay between the capitol police's urgent request for guard support and their arrival at the capitol, which had been overrun by pro-trump rioters. it comes on the heels of a letter accusing senior army officials arguing against deploying the national guard troops on january 6th. as stated in the contempt report, this email of meadows is just one of many many lines of inquiry the select committee would have asked the former chief of staff about if he did appear for his deposition. but as he is still not cooperating, the committee is moving forward in trying to hold him ac...

The few weeks that meadows was cooperating with the committee, he turned over 9,000 pages of documents. so this 51-page report is just the committee's side of things. it doesn't seem like we're going to get mark meadows' side as he is not cooperating, of course, the reason for this contempt referral. meadows' attorney, however, released a letter and sent it to the committee saying in part, the contemplated referral would be contrary to law because a good faith invocation of executive privilege and testimonial immunity by a former senior official is not a violation of not cooperating. however, ...

Life. people should read this report. if you want to understand how corrupted the federal government was at the highest level on january 6th, read what mark meadows was awash in. this is from that 51-page contempt report from the january 6th select committee. mr. med oesz reportedly spoke to kash patel who was then the chief of staff to former acting secretary of defense chris mill, he quote, non-stop throughout the day of january 6th. among other things, meadows apparently knows if and when trump was engaged in discussions regarding the national guard's response to the capitol riot. it is a p...