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Far, but there he was, again, with the president of the united states. this is why the committee wants to hear from him. and, um, it seems that, you know, they have to take this vote tonight because while he did hand over these documents and seem to be making an awful lot of progress in terms of working out some things with the committee, they could not get to yes. >> ambassador eisen, i mean if the house votes to refer meadows to the justice department, do you believe the doj would actually prosecute him? >> anderson, i do believe that the doj will prosecute him, as they prosecuted steve bann...

Last ditch effort to avoid that. but the committee is about to vote. and we'll see if he tries his real last card in his hand, which is going in and invoking the fifth amendment, which i think would stop the criminal contempt, but raises a host of other issues. >> laura jarrett, folks at home might wonder why mark meadows is happy to go on fox news to talk about events that day. but not speak to the committee. it is a point that the committee itself made in their report. mr. meadows has shown his willingness to talk about issues related to the select committee's investigation across a variety ...

About what those discussions were. i think there are questions we need to ask about what their plans were. what plans they were making on january 6th. what plans they were making with respect to the vice president. what plans they were making to have the vice president to get outside legal counsel to tell the vice president that he could, in fact, decide not to count certain electoral votes. the american people deserve to know all of the steps that donald trump, that those around him, that his campaign were taking in an effort to change the results, to overturn the election, to delay the elect...

Dismantling of donald trump's executive privilege argument. this court of appeals essentially said the former president claims that as a former president, he can invoke executive privilege, but he never offers us even the beginning of any reason why that is the case. so this is a complete rejection of the executive privilege argument, and i should note also the court goes out of its way to stress the importance of the committee's ongoing investigation of january 6th. they say, this isn't just important, but they say essentially, it's hard to think of anything more important that congress could...

And why." good evening. the appeals court again echoing this argument that trump cannot claim executive privilege, that president biden the man holding the office has waived. it is a slap at trump's fundamental argument the same one by the way that he's always trying to use. >> yes, don. some legal cases are close calls and could go either way. the law could be interpreted either way. this was not that. this is a complete and total dismantling of donald trump's executive privilege argument. this court of appeals essentially said the former president claims that as a former president he can inv...