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Clearly communicates a list of topics on which he was willing to provide responses to written interrogations? >> well, in our deference to mr. meadows' counsel, you know, he can say it, but it's left up to us to accept it as a committee. >> mr. chairman, could i -- i would like to make sure that we enter into the record all of the committee, all of the chairman's responses to mr. meadows' attorney. because in addition to what the ranking member is referring to, the committee has engaged with mr. meadows' counsel multiple times, providing with him lists of topics about which we would like to qu...

Trump refused to act. when action by our president was required, essential, and indeed compelled by his oath to our constitution, mr. meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privilege claim imploring that mr. trump take the specific action we all knew his duty required. these text messages leave no doubt, the white house knew exactly what was happening here at the capitol. one text mr. meadows received said quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another quote they have breached the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capito...

January 6th, the day the mob of pro-trump people stormed the capital and tried to undo our democracy. even though less than a week ago meadows claimed he had no idea what would happen on the 6th of january. >> we can all condemn what happened on january 6th, and rightfully so. but i'm not aware of anybody in the west wing that had any advanced knowledge that the security was going to be reached at the capital. >> marc miller was the chiefs to spokesperson for the department of justice during the and katie benner covers the doj for the new york times. they join me now. thank you both. it's a bu...

About emails and texts he gave us without any privilege claim. mr. meadows' role in the raffensperger call cannot be privileged, nor can his dealings with a member of this body regarding jeff clark. this committee must get to the objective truth and ensure that january 6th never happens again. mr. meadows is in contempt. he must testify, and i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this resolution. and i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from indiana is recognized. >> i yield myself as much time. >> thank you, madam speaker. here we go again. for the first time in history, democrats ...

I'm going to talk about three areas that are critically important to our investigation about which mr. modeeadows thats turned over materials that are nonprivileged and about which he's compelled to answer our questions. as the violence was under way on the 6th, it was evident to all. we know that for 187 minutes president trump refused to act. and he refused to act when his action was required, it was essential, and it was compelled by his duty, compelled by his oath of office. mr. meadows received numerous text messages that he has produced without any privilege claim urging president trump ...