0 wrapups of either palestinian question or more pressing issue of iran, wolf. i suspect they talked about it privately. didn t make mention of it in the public statement. thank you very much. and to the viewers, thanks very much for watching. i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. and our out front starts right now. good evening, out front tonight we are standing by for a viewing vote. any minute members of the january 6th select committee are spec to recommend that the full house find donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, in contempt of congress for defying a subpoena. we will bring you that vote live. it is expected to start as i said, any minute from now. we are learning that we could hear from other members of the select committee. the other contempt votes you may have seen watching the show you didn t see that, it was the chairman and vice chair chairman tomppson and vice chair cheney. tonight we are hearing from an aide to benny thompson that he will recognize
0 defense. the court yesterday appointed a guardian to represent their son. they have seemingly abandoned him. have had no contact with him. have not seen him or spoken to him. obviously what lies ahead for their case, it s going to be a difficult one for prosecutors after they charge them with four counts of involuntary manslaughter arguing that they gave him the gun as a gift, but also saying that they did nothing to prevent him from unleashing this shooting, this attack. prosecutors saying they knew things were going on and they should have done stuff, that s why they charged them and we ll see them later in court this afternoon. four children are dead. sh shimon, thank you very much. very good tuesday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. the fate of mark meadows will likely soon be in the hands of the justice department, this following the january 6th committee voting unanimously to recommend that meadows be charged with criminal content of congress for defying it
can happen in the post-season. mark meadows has been refusing to cooperate with the january 6th investigation committee. where does that stand right now in terms of timing and referral and potential consequences he could face and tell us more about the powerpoint presentation and the impact it could have. yeah, jon, all of this movement is coming this week now. the contempt referral, we had long expected to see it. it looked like the committee was going to get some cooperation from meadows. that s how they got all of these thousands of documents and text messages and how we start to see this form taking shape of what meadows knew on january 6th and around that date, as well. and the committee laid out last night 24 hours before they re expected to vote this contempt referral out and then lend it to the house floor later this week. they are laying out why they re holding him in contempt because, yes, he did cooperate in terms of sending them documents and text messages, but they still
committee will meet tonight to consider contempt of congress charges against former white house chief of staff mark meadows. in a report the committee alleged meadows wrote an email the day before the riot saying national guard troops would keep trump supporters safe on january 6th. the recipient on the email is not identified. meadows attorney said this morning a contempt referral would be contrary to law and that meadows should be protected by executive privilege. joining now is washington post reporter carol leonnig and msnbc legal analyst cynthia alksne. what do we know about what the committee has on meadows? it s a great question, katy.
happened. instead this is why they are moving forward with this contempt citation. the question for the democrats, even though they will almost certainly have the votes tonight to advance this contempt referral to the full house and likely in a democratic-led house they will have enough votes to get it sent to the justice department. the question is whether they ever get clarity from mark meadows who has refused to testify and will the justice department charge him, another question going forward. manu, lauren, thank you guys. still ahead, we ll take you back to kentucky where the scale of the destruction there is frankly overwhelming. relief organizations are on the ground trying to bring the basics to thousands of families in need. we ll go back to john berman next. [laughing and giggling] (woman) hey dad. miss us? (vo) reflect on the past, celebrate the future.