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Flat footed or it was intentionally holding back its response, and that's deeply disturbing. >> meanwhile, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is making headlines after he seemingly showed support for the committee by saying their findings are something the public needs to know. and a florida man who attacked cops with a fire extinguisher has received more than five years behind bars, and that is the longest january 6th sentence to date. that was a long time. joining me now, hugo lowell, congressional reporter for "the guardian." welcome back, always good to see you. alex jones who was su...

And at least do it in person? >> absolutely right, andrea. the report that the committee issued last night, 51 pages goes to in great detail to make its case as to why mark meadows is appropriately to be held in criminal contempt. it shows how he has shared already some things, they've demonstrated the kinds of questions they want to ask him including about meetings with third-parties that would not be subject to executive privilege under any circumstances. they point out that neither president biden nor even president trump have asserted executive privilege with regard to mark meadows' testim...

Committee as well, does his lawsuit against the committee and nancy pelosi and everybody else that he possibly can sue, does it even have a chance? >> i don't think so. i think it's ultimately going to fail. and it may very well be that this was filed more politically than it was legally. and so, if and when it fails, it will give him some political cover to say to the president, look, i did everything i could to avoid testifying or producing these documents, and now i'm forced to do it. i think it also probably stalls any consideration of criminal charges against mark meadows for contempt of ...

Former white house chief of staff mark meadows should be prepared to face contempt of congress charges regardless of the lawsuit he filed overnight, which is trying to block the enforcement of his subpoena. >> congressman bennie thompson, who chairs the committee, says they plan to make a criminal contempt referral next week because meadows refused to show up for his scheduled deposition. when asked if he thought his lawsuit was a stall tactic, thompson replied flatly yes. amid all the back and forth over documents that the committee has questions about, cnn is learning more about what meadows...

Insisting he sort of wants to engage with the committee or has been saying that. of course, he was only engaging in what appears to be now a stall tactic looking like he was cooperating, but his lawyer making clear, he wasn't going to share anything that touched on the president's conversations or rather meadow's conversations with the president. then he backed off the deposition. the third sirius, of course, is meadows writing a book in which he's revealing public forgive me very unpublic medical private records of the president discussing conversations he had with the president all of which ...