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Tonight was read out loud some of the text messages that mark meadows, trump's white house chief of staff, received. while the u.s. capitol was upped upped -- under attack on january 6th. these are texts she says are evidence the white house knew exactly what was going on in real time at the u.s. capitol on the 6th. listen to this. this is pretty stunning stuff. >> this vote on contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows' refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and does not have any privilege basis to refuse en...

Ms. cheney of wyoming for any opening remark she care to make. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman. we're here to address a very serious matter, contempt of congress by a former chief of staff to a former president of the united states. we do not do this lightly. and indeed, we had hoped not to take this step at all. for weeks as the chairman noted, we worked with mr. meadow's counsel to reach an agreement on cooperation. but shortly before his scheduled deposition, mr. meadows walked away from his commitment to appear and informed us he would no longer cooperate. we believe mr. meadows is im...

Do 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 ...

Leader of the select committee mr. cheney of wyoming for any opening remarks she cares to make. >> thank you, very much, mr. chairman. we are here to address a very serious matter. contempt of congress by a former chief of staff to former president of the united states. we do not do this lightly. and indeed, we hoped not to take this step at all. for weeks, as the chairman noted, we worked with mr. meadows' council to reach an agreement on cooperation. but shortly before his scheduled deposition, mr. meadows walked away from his commitment to appear. and informed us he would no longer cooperat...

The u.s. capitol was under attack on january 6th. these are texts, she says, that are evidence the white house knew exactly what was going on in real time at the u.s. capitol on the 6th. listen to this. this is pretty stunning stuff. >> this vote on contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows' refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and does not have any privilege basis to refuse entirely to testify regarding these topics. let me give just three examples. first, president trump's failure to stop the violence. o...