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The decision comes despite concerns from the justice department that trump might still have classified material in his possession. kaitlan polantz has more on what this means for the investigation. >> reporter: there was a long hearing on friday under seal over donald trump and the subpoena that he and his team have been sitting with for months now as the justice department is trying to make sure there are no federal secrets two years after he left the presidency. this hearing on the table today was whether or not donald trump would be held in context for not fulfilling that subpoena from back...

If you're making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, you're making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. >> executive privilege serves the public interest. it's for us. it's for we, the people. >> the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. >> every democrat has said something today one purpose, and that's to attack donald trump.

Avoid cooperating with our investigation, you are making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. >> executive privilege served the public interest. it is for us. it is for we the people. >> the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. >> every democrat has said today was meant to attack one person. and that is donald trump. >> some of the floor debate before tonight's vote on mark meadows contempt referral, back with us tonight, juanita tolliver ...

Everything we can to secure mr. meadows' testimony. he is improperly asserting executive and other privileges. but the vote on contempt today relates principally to his refusal to testify about messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and he does not have privilege to refuse entirely to testify regarding these topics. there are just three examples i will give you this afternoon of issues which we need to talk to mr. meadows about and on which his testimony is required and compelled by our subpoena. first is president trump's failure to stop the vi...

Been just that, it would've been a big news story. but beyond that, the vice chair of the committee for that republican congresswoman liz cheney, made news in her remarks. as i said, mr. meadows did turn over thousands of pages of documents into the investigation already before he decided he was going to stop complying with their requests. the documents he handed over included lots of text messages. both sent by mr. meadows and received by mr. meadows. what congresswoman liz cheney did tonight was read out love some of the text messages that mark meadows, trump white house chief of staff recei...