enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i m pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. gloria, that is what donald trump jr. really thought. despite his many comments since, downplaying the whole event. and laura ingraham, who said this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. this is laura ingraham, who
communicated multiple times with the member of congress who was working with mr. clarke. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. january 6th was without precedence. there has been no stronger case in the nation s history for a congressional investigation into the action of a former president. this investigation is not like other congressional inquiries. our constitution, the structure of our institutions, and the rule of law which are at the heart of what makes america great are at stake. we cannot be satisfied with incomplete answers or half truths. and we cannot surrender to president trump s efforts to hide what happened. we will be persistent, professional, and nonpartisan. and we will get to the objective truth to ensure that
conceivable privilege baseis to refuse to testify on this topic. he is in contempt. third, in the weeks before january 6th, president trump s appointees at the justice department, informed him repeatedly that the president s claims of election fraud were not supported by the evidence. and that the election was not in fact stolen. president trump intended to appoint jeffrey clarke, as attorney general he. in part so mr. clarke could alter department of justice s conclusions regarding the election. mr. clarke informed the committee that he anticipates potential criminal prosecutions related to the matters. and intends in upcoming testimony to invoke his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination. as mr. meadows nonprivileged texts reveal, meadows
prevent something that from ever happening again. and it s been reported that during the lead up to january 6th, the white house was directing the department of justice to investigate outrageously crazy conspiracy theories to try to seed doubt about the election and as a president president kit of replacement of the lectors to benefit mr. trump s effort to overturn the election. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. as the vice chair has mentioned, mr. meadows made a surprise visit to the state run audit inia, which preceded the call that she recited where the then president asked the secretary state to go find votes. we need to talk to mark meadows about that. mr. meadows, interacted with a
in these text messages the truth. yesterday chris wallace had enough and quit fox news. tonight we had these text messages proving that these fox stars knew what was happening. yet fox didn t even broadcast this tonight, erin. neither did newsmax. they are keeping the echo chamber so protected that the truth doesn t get out anymore. i don t know why anybody calls these prime time shows anything related to news anymore. they re certainly not going to get it on their network. it s not even carried live. ellie, there s a fundamental point being made by liz cheney as she lays this out, the desperation from inside the capitol and trump administration officials, the desperation from the president s own son, and that is, did donald trump through action or inaction corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress official proceedings to count electoral votes? that is a crucial point she s making there. there s the action of what he