the few weeks that meadows was cooperating with the committee, he turned over 9,000 pages of documents. so this 51-page report is just the committee s side of things. it doesn t seem like we re going to get mark meadows side as he is not cooperating, of course, the reason for this contempt referral. meadows attorney, however, released a letter and sent it to the committee saying in part, the contemplated referral would be contrary to law because a good faith invocation of executive privilege and testimonial immunity by a former senior official is not a violation of not cooperating. however, the committee has responded multiple times, including in their contempt report, saying you turned over 9,000 pages of documents. why is that not executive privilege and you coming to talk about those documents is executive privilege? they think it doesn t add up, so they plan to move forward,
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committee arguing he is not breaking laws by refusing to cooperate. i want to bring in two guests. welcome to you both. talk to me about the letter. reporter: yasmin, we know that the committee will move forward tonight on the contempt referral. meadows attorneying saying this is contrary to the law. he argues that s because i m quoting the good faith of executive privilege and the immunity by a former senior executive firm saying that s not a violation of the statute. in this letter he argues why executive privilege shields and doesn t tackle the central question which is what happens when it is about a former president and the former
and the full house could vote on this criminal contempt referral of mark meadows as soon as tomorrow night. meanwhile, jeffrey clark, that former department of justice official who has been voted out of committee when it comes to a criminal contempt referral, he is still waiting for another deposition opportunity. that s expected to happen as soon as thursday depending on what comes out of that, jake. he, too, could be voted on for contempt referral and sent to the department of justice. ryan nobles, thank you. let s discuss. we should note it s 7:00 eastern time the committee, the january 6th committee is going to meet to have that vote. we re also told they ll provide new information showing the extent of what people in the white house knew at the time. david, cnn s jamie gangel reports the communications director alyssa farrah that she texted meadows during the attack urging someone from the white house to go to a camera and tell the rioters to stand down. she warned if they did
argument that i can t come in and testify because that would be privileged but here are all of these documents on this very subject which i admit are not privileged. i can t comment and testify before congress, but i can write about it in my book. you can t have it both ways. and so we will proceed, and i believe hold him in criminal contempt, refer to the justice department as we did with mr. bannon. do you have any sense of what the timing would be on that? obviously time is of the essence here. it seems like a lot of these tactics are delay tactics of various kinds, hoping to stretch this out as long as possible, hoping to run out the clock on the investigation. if there is going to be a contempt vote for mr. meadows, potentially a contempt referral for him to be prosecuted, how soon would that happen? i think it will happen very soon. we are mapping out how quickly we can produce the committee report recommending the course of action of criminal contempt, when we can take that
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