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Try to help him prevent a lawfully, constitutionally elected new president from taking office. because we already had john eastman's memorandum and there's an overlap in some of the arguments. i think it's interesting, mark meadows, one, and i say this and people won't be happy about it. this was a smart move from mark meadows personally in terms of a criminal contempt proceeding against him, because what he is going to say is, look, i'm cooperating. i'm turning things over. look at that memo i turned over. it is not relevant to the privilege claim of executive privilege because we didn't act ...

During the riot, and it really does offer a window into exactly what was happening inside the white house during that time. such a critical thing for the committee and the investigation. but, don, as committee members point out, what's strange here is that mark meadows has said he cannot show up because he does not believe that the committee will respect any executive privilege claims he may make. but clearly he turned over thousands of documents he does thought believe are privilege, and it's not clear according to the committee why he can't show up and at least answer questions about those a...

No longer going to cooperate with the committee that sued them, he was engaging. he said he was willing to sit for an interview and he handed over 6,000 pages worth of documents. and in those documents we've learned there are some communications related to what the president would be doing during the riot, and it really does offer a window into exactly what was happening inside the white house during that time. such a critical thing for the committee and the investigation. but, don, as committee members point out, what's strange here is that mark meadows has said he cannot show up because he d...

Argument, the supreme court, that would be the last word on the national archives case, but it would also have implications on the other cases like bannon's and meadows in which they put executive privilege at core of their claim and whether or not to comply with the subpoena. >> huge implications generally for the country but even huger within this court where bannon and meadows are trying to argue. within that court it would be established that there is no privilege claim here, so anyone who says so, anyone who tells congress i'm not going to do it, that's -- that starts to look like crimina...

Committee and the house speaker nancy pelosi. quoting from the filing. mr. meadows, a witness, has been put in the untenable position of choosing between conflicting privilege claims of constitutional origin and dimension. in an interview with me in the situation room, committee member zoe lofgren noting his prior cooperation in turning over thousands of documents is not buying meadows' privilege claim. >> he's sent this information over. obviously, he did not believe it was privileged. or he wouldn't have sent it. and so, to refuse to answer questions about it is really -- it's not the way th...