cooperate on those matters. that alone is sufficient to advance the referral. >> reporter: they are expected to refer mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress. the january 6th select committee pointing out meadows won't answer questions about text messages showing calls from republicans pleading to have donald trump act to stop the chaos. >> we know that for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. and he refused to act when his action was required. >> reporter: meadows refused to sit for a deposition with the committee but only after submitting 6,000 documents, amounting to 9,000 pages, many that include messages meadows received as the capitol was under siege. some coming from fox news personalities. sean hannity asked, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol? brian begged, please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished. laura ingraham warned, the