who then by in kiven mccarthy s case, the 28th of january, was licking the boot. it wasn t even bending the knee. it was licking the boot to curry favor with the guy who two weeks before they thought was a real threat to the democracy. barbara, we have seen bannon really just flouted it. and he was referred for contempt and is going to be prosecuted. everyone else has kind of played it both ways. med owes was cooperating then wasn t. he has a contempt referral. others pleaded the fifth. others cited privilege, et cetera. it s not like members of congress are going to treat this like nothing if they get a subpoena. i think that s right. i think onest things the committee has done well is sort of this public shaming with the six page letter and laying out all of the details about why they want his testimony and why it s so compelling. anybody who reads that i think
the whole reason we re on to any of this is because it appears that this is something that the january 6th investigation is looking into. we re sort of reverse engineering one of their lines of inquiry as best we can. but as such, look at the mark meadows connection. i mean what i m about to show you, this doesn t say that the effort to coordinate these forgeries in five states came from the trump white house, but if you look at the contempt report that the january 6 investigation created about mark meadows, it does seem to indicate that when he was serving as white house chief of staff he was somehow involved in this. this is from the contempt referral on mark meadows. quote, the select committee seeks information from mr. meadows about issues including the following. quote, mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send alternate slates of electors to congress.
effort. in this way it s like someone gave a template to these republicans in these five states. this is how they should create these forged documents. the whole reason we re on to any of this is because it appears that this is something the january 6th investigation is looking into. where making their lines of inquiry the best that we can. but as such, look at the mark meadows connection. i mean, what i m about to show you, this doesn t say that the effort to coordinate these s efforts in five states came from the trump white house, but if you look at the contempt report that the january six investigation created about mark meadows it does seem to indicate that he was involved in this. this is from the contempt referral on mark meadows, the select committee seeks
template to republicans in these five states and potentially beyond telling them that this is how they should create these forged documents. the whole reason we re on to any of this is because it appears that this is something that the january 6th investigation is looking into. we re sort of reverse engineering one of their lines of inquiry as best we can. but as such, look at the mark meadows connection. i mean what i m about to show you, this doesn t say that the effort to coordinate these forgeries in five states came from the trump white house, but if you look at the contempt report that the january 6 investigation created about mark meadows, it does seem to indicate that when he was serving as white house chief of staff he was somehow involved in this. this is from the contempt referral on mark meadows. quote, the select committee seeks information from mr. meadows about issues including the following. quote, mr. meadows received text
january 6th select committee. maybe it s every time donald trump makes a statement, it distracts from the actual serious concerns of the country. maybe it s covid, who knows. but i think that s been a very interesting shift amongst rank and file republican voters. neil, there s somg reports today that the trump attorney who was involved for writing that memo, the eastman memo, is stalling this subpoena by reviewing the records first rather than those from around january 6th, 2021. the house lawyer saying he s trying to defeat the subpoena. your thoughts? your reaction? i m sure eastman is trying everything he can. hoost not a particularly good lawyer. so i don t think he s going to get very far with that. it will ultimately be contempt referral from congress to the justice department because i suspect he s afraid of turning over on the information. and that comes on top of reporting that you referred to earlier in the segment about how