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We will question mr. meadows and e-mails and texts he gave us without any privilege claim. mr. meadows' role in the raffensperger call cannot be privileged. nor with mr. clark. we must get to the truth and ensure january 6th never happened 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 gentlewoman reserves is balance of her time. gentleman from indiana. >> thank you, madame speaker. here we go again, for the first time in history, democrats have complete control over a select committee. i h...

Have admitted on videotape and social media and in federal district court, they were provoked to violence by president trump's false claims that the election was stolen. as the violence unfolded that afternoon, nearly one year ago, it was evident to all, not only to those of us who were in the chamber at that time. it was covered in realtime by almost every news channel, but for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. let's let that sink in, madam speaker. he refused to act. when action by our president was required, it was essential, and it was compelled by his oath to our constitution. ...

Have admitted on videotape, in social media, and in federal district court, they were provoked to violence by president trump's false claims that the election was stolen. as the violence unfolded that afternoon, nearly one year ago, it was evident to all, not only to those of us who were in the chamber at that time. it was covered in real time by almost every news channel, but for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. let's let that sink in, madame speaker. he refused to act when action by our president was required, it was essential, and it was compelled by his oath to our constitution...

Privilege claim. >> that was the chairman of the committee investigating january 6th, benny thompson in the last hour addressing the house rules committee. they're discussing a resolution recommending mark meadows be held in contempt of congress. a full vote by the house is expected later today. last night the select committee voted to hold meadows in contempt over his refusal to testify after initially he did cooperate. the committee shared more details about the documents and text messages that meadows did turn over. that includes messages sent to him by former president trump's son and fox ...

Compelled in 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 what was happening here at the capitol. the press and others wrote to mark meadows as the attack was underway. one text mr. meadows received said quote we are under siege here at the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol breaking windows on doors rushing in. is trump going to say something...