cooperate on those matters. that alone is sufficient to advance the referral. reporter: they are expected to refer mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress. the january 6th select committee pointing out meadows won t answer questions about text messages showing calls from republicans pleading to have donald trump act to stop the chaos. we know that for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. and he refused to act when his action was required. reporter: meadows refused to sit for a deposition with the committee but only after submitting 6,000 documents, amounting to 9,000 pages, many that include messages meadows received as the capitol was under siege. some coming from fox news personalities. sean hannity asked, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol? brian begged, please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished. laura ingraham warned, the
everything you ve accomplished, brian kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. so, speaking of hannity, mark meadows appeared on hannity s show last night. you might think the two would talk about these text messages. but no, meadows did, however, mention the text on newsmax. we ve tried very hard in a very transparent and accommodating way to share nonprivileged information. right. and what we found out tonight is that not only did that just get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text message, leak them to put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. and i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about you it s not about holding me in contempt. it s about coming after president donald trump. cnn s ryan nobles has more from capitol hill on all of this. reporter: christine and
people should be prosecuted so we need this information out there for historical purposes, for accuracy, but also for just accountability as well which seems to be diminishing by the day. and because they failed that derrick the effort now to roll back voting rights and infiltrate election officials, they failed that day so they are work now to find ways we need to do that again. the levers we tried to do that day. mark meadows saying not surprising. obviously it s disappointing but not surprising, and let s be clear about this, sean. this is not about me holding me in contempt. it s not even about make the capitol safar. we see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on right now. this is about donald trump. think tried to weaponized text messages selectively leaked to put out a narrative that quite frankly the president didn t act, and can i tell you this is the president did act.
have admitted on videotape and social media and in federal district court, they were provoked to violence by president trump s false claims that the election was stolen. as the violence unfolded that afternoon, nearly one year ago, it was evident to all, not only to those of us who were in the chamber at that time. it was covered in realtime by almost every news channel, but for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. let s let that sink in, madam speaker. he refused to act. when action by our president was required, it was essential, and it was compelled by his oath to our constitution. mr. meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privilege
insurrection, saying publicly the opposite of what they were texting privately. here s how meadows responded last night. what they ve done is had a contempt vote. we ve tried very hard, in a very transparent and accommodating way, to share non-privileged information. what we found out tonight is not only did that get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leak them, and put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about you know, it is not holding me in contempt. it is about coming after president donald trump. sadly, that s what tonight s vote was all about. republican congresswoman and vice chair of the january 6th house committee liz cheney read the texts aloud as the panel gathered to advance the contempt of congress charge against mark meadows. the full house is expected to vote on the resolution today.