your list of privileged claims or your legal slight of hand. history will record that in a critical moment, in our democracy, most people were on the side of finding the truth or providing accountability, of strengthening our system for future generations. and history will also record in this critical moment that some people would not, some people hid behind excuses, went to great lengths to avoid answering questions and explaining what they had done and what they knew. i predict that history won t be kind to those people. what s especially jarring about the referral we are considering tonight is that mr. meadows was a member of this body for more than seven years. he was a leading voice in certain corners even briefly the ranking member of the oversight and reform committee. it s not hard to locate records of his time in the house, and
legal slight of hand. history will record that in a critical moment in our democracy, most people are on the side of finding the truth, of providing accountability, of strengthening our system for future generations and history will also record in this critical moment some people would not, that some people hid behind excuses, went to great lengths to avoid answering questions and explaining what they had done and what they knew. i predict that history won t be kind to those people. what s especially jarring about the referral we are considering tonight is that mr. meadows was a member of this body for more than seven years. he was a leading voice in certain corners even briefly the ranking member of the oversight and reform committee. it s not hard to locate records of his time in the house and
interacting with, fox news personalities, we heard sean hannity named, laura ingram named. he s already told. can you walk back after you already started to talk? that is absolutely right, joy. he can t walk back the documents and materials he turned over without claiming privilege in them. so the most important thing we saw tonight was the committee effort to categorize meadows along with steve bannon as someone who was in flagrant violation of the subpoena. not an effort to comply that failed for whatever reason but someone who simply spit in the face of congress. that s important because doj will face an important decision about whether to prosecute meadows. certainly the clarity of the committee presentation makes it a lot easier though i m sure it won t be an easy decision at doj to fine him in contempt and engage in prosecution. one of the things that really
0 swing. be vigilant and informed about your own health. that does it for us. the reidout with joe reid is joy reid is up next. hi, joy. have a wonderful evening. much appreciated. good evening. you re looking at the room where members of the house select committee on january 6th will soon be gathering for a special meeting. in this hour they will vote in a measure to refer criminal charges for donald trump s former chief of staff. mark meadows who defied their subpoena. they ll also be discussing the damming new evidence they gathered that sheds light on trump s attempted coup and meadow s personal involvement. you won t want to miss this. this comes after meadows abruptly halted his cooperation last week and twice refused to show up for scheduled depositions and suing the committee in an effort to shield trump and avoid accountability. as the committee detailed in the report they re voting on tonight, it s clear that there is a lot that he is still hiding. for one, the committe
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