at helpfosterchildren.com breaking news in our politics lead. sources confirming to cnn the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection plans to send a letter to fox host sean hannity asking him to cooperate with its probe into the deadly attack. this was first reported by axios. let s get straight to ryan nobles on capitol hill. we know hannity is a close trump ally. what might he reveal? the committee wants to know specifically what conversations he might have had with either the former president or even his closest advisers in and around the events leading up to and on january 6th. and we know that the committee already knows about some of those interactions because it was part of their contempt report against the former white
privileged. now he says he can t answer any questions about them because they re privileged. you already admitted they weren t. you have to answer questions about them. also, his privilege claims are undermined by the publication of his recent book last week which includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with president trump. you can t sell a book based on your conversations with the president and then claim you cannot talk about those conversations with the president when subpoenaed to do so by the united states congress. again, it is either privileged or it s not. if you ve already conceded it is not privileged by writing about it in your book and handing over 9,000 documents you can t after the fact then say those things are covered by privilege. but there s one point in the contempt report for mark meadows. one set of questions the january 6th investigators say they need to ask meadows that i think deserves particular attention. and that s about meadows inter
i mean, here is how those interactions are described in the contempt report. this is from the transcript of the deposition that meadows didn t show up to. he didn t show up but the rest of the committee showed up and the lead counsel for the investigation laid out for the record all the questions they would have asked mark meadows had he bothered to appear. quote, we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from members of congress, including text messages received from a member of congress in november, 2020, regarding efforts to contact state legislators, because as mr. meadows indicates in his text messages, quote, potus, meaning the president, wants to chat with them. end quote. we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from another member of congress in november, 2020, in which the member of congress indicates that, quote, the president asked him to call arizona governor doug ducey, end quote, in which mr. meadows asked for contact informat
bannon should be referred for prosecution, it was about three weeks later that a federal grand jury in fact handed down the indictment of bannon on those contempt charges. what the investigation was actually voting on tonight, what the house will be voting on tomorrow is a contempt report that investigators prepared on mark meadows. in that report, they laid out all the ways in which mark meadows failed to comply with their subpoenas, all the reasons he has to comply with their subpoenas, but also all the reasons why it was so important the investigation needed to talk to him and get access to his documents. they say, quote, the select committee seeks information from mr. meadows central to its investigative responsibilities. the events of january 6th involved both the physical assault on the capitol building and law enforcement personnel protecting it, and an attack on the constitutional process central to the peaceful transfer of power following a presidential election. the counting
process, mediated through the free and fair elections held in jurisdictions throughout the country and through the statutory and constitutional processes set up to confirm and validate the results. in the case of the 2020 presidential election the january 6th electoral college vote count occurred following a series of efforts in the preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. the upshot of the contempt report on mark meadows is that in those weeks preceding january 6th, mark meadows was neck deep in those efforts and that plot to disrupt and delay and ultimately overturn the election results. his attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim to say he can t talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions with president trump are protected, those claims are very much undermined by, well, for one the 9,000 documents he already handed over to the investigation. he says he han