six committee. former chief of staff mark meadows and deputy. the justice department, this week, letting these trump associates off the hook, declining to charge them with contempt of congress. scavino and meadows cooperated with the committee at first, but trump s former chief of staff, turning over more than 2000 text messages. consulting to the january six committee, even describing meadows as the mvp of witnesses. starting november 3rd, november 4th, in a middlesex messages, all the way to the end, it is a roadmap. and i would have to say at this point, i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. i think they should pay him. the data that we got from there actually allowed us to really structure and effective investigation. well, the committee now calling the doj s decision on meadows and scavino, quote, puzzling. while praising the swift indictment of former trump advisor, peter navarro. navarro was arrested friday for defying the january 6th committee subpoen
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Statement from the president of the united states. This is going on in these campuses. You heard a statement from president biden, but no action. This is the key. They are getting greenlighted by the administration. Talk is cheap. These jewish students have been intimidated. I have been a civil Rights Attorney for 35 years. This is not free speech. This is intimidation, harassment, and terrorize. These jewish students cannot go to school. They are being denied the same protected Class Status as everyone else. Im old enough to remember where president s in 1957 in 1963 sent federal troops to allow Black Kids to go to school in little Rock And University of alabama. Why arent the jewish kids being protected . I can summarize it in a few words. Upper operational Win Michigan in november. They are not going to alienate their base
congressman, your colleague, louis gohmert, claims navarro s indictment is about targeting republicans. take a listen. if you re a republican, you can t even lie to congress, or lie to an fbi agent, or if they re coming after you, they re gonna bury you, they re gonna put you in the d.c. jail, and terrorize, and torture you. your thoughts? what kind of special status because he believed republicans are entitled to? it s not that you are a republican, you can t lie to congress. and that if your republican, you can t lie to the fbi. if you re american, you can t lie to congress, you can t lie to the fbi. they would be treated differently than everyday folks, and that actually is just who they are right now. they choose violence over voting, chaos over community. they re widely out of touch with every day americans. and we are a country that is made up of rules. and right now, you are seeing