staff mark meadows may soon find himself in the very same legal fight as steve bannon. today, january 6th committee chairman bennie thompson announced he has no choice but to move forward with contempt of congress charges after meadows stopped cooperating with the committee. joining us to discuss, ryan nobles. meadows case is different from bannon s because meadows actually provided the committee with some documents, right? that s right, jake. 6,000 documents in total, and he also has expressed a willingness to come before the committee and answer their questions before an abrupt about-face in the last 48 hours where he then sent the committee a letter and said he could no longer cooperate because he was concerned about things like executive privilege. but the committee in this letter back to meadows where they warn him he ll now face criminal contempt referral talk about how they would like to learn more about some of these documents that meadows did provide the committee. among th
importance of the inkwiquirery based on the conduct you need to uncover and break down and understand. and it s hard to imagine something more serious than an insurrection at the capitol on january 6th that sought to not only undo an election but to harm sitting members of congress up to and including the speaker of the house and the vice president of the united states mike pence. so they have an enormous need for this material and i think at the end of the day, they will get a lot of it, if not all of it. yeah, prete, not surprising. we have known for those of us who are new yorkers have known for a long time the former president, he s suing the committee and the national archives to keep the white house records private. january 6th committee chairman bennie thompson and the vice chair liz cheney are res responresponding tonight saying it s nothing more than destructing the problem. precedent and law are on our side. is trump s lawsuit a delay tactic or do you think it can
basic principle is whether there are privileges or not, in this case there aren t any that i can determine, but even if there are you have to see what the need for the information is. and part of how you determine the need for the information is the importance of the inquiry, which is also in turn based on the importance of the conduct that you need to uncover and break down and understand. and it s hard to imagine something more serious than an insurrection at the capitol on january 6th that sought to not only undo an election but to harm sitting members of congress up to and including the speaker of the house and the vice president of the united states mike pence. so they have an enormous need for this material, and i think at the end of the day they will get a lot of it if not all of it. preet, not surprisingly, we have known, for those of us who are new yorkers, have known for a long time how litigious the former president is. he is now suing the committee and the national archiv
pathetic. well said indeed. chief ramsey, thank you very much. laura, jaime, thanks to you as well. just ahead, i will speak live with the january 6th committee chairman, congressman thompson. there he is. we have lots to discuss. talk about the impact of today s hearing and what happens next. stay with us. you are in the situation room. when you earn a degree with university of phoenix, we support you with career coaching for life, including personal branding, resume building and more. that s our promise to you. that s career services for life. learn more at phoenix.edu. [grunts] [grunts] pnc bank believes that if a pair of goggles can help your backhand get better. yeah! .then your bank should help you budget even better.