opened to amendment as any point. the chair recognizes the generalwoman from california. thank you, mr. chairman. like all of us on the committee mark med [inaudible] reasonably when we certainly didn t agree on policy matters, i wished him well and when he left congress to serve the staff for then president donald trump in 2020. shocking we now have to face the fact that mr. meadows admits he played an official role in trying to undermined the results of the 2020 presidential election. this committee s job is to find out about that plot. the plot which led up to the events on january 6th, and to propose legislative changes to
his client in criminal contempt. without objection, that letter will be made part of the record. a small group of people have gotten a lot of attention because of their defiance. but many others have taken a different path and provided important information about january 6th and the context in which the riot occurred. anyone who wants to cooperate with our investigation can do so. nearly everyone has. our democracy was inches from ruin. our system of government was stretched to the breaking point. members and staff were terrorized. police officers fought hand-to- hand for hours. people lost their lives. the select committee recently toured the capitol and saw firsthand what our brave capitol police had to endure and heard them say if it had
violence. how did meadows react to the cries for help? whom did he tell? what did he do and critically, what did the president of the united states do and what did he fail to do? mr. meadows doesn t think he should have to answer the questions. he wants the american people to be left in the dark. here s the last message to highlight from a lawmaker in the aftermath of january 6th. if we could cue graphic number three. yesterday, it was a terrible day. we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i am sorry nothing worked. the day after a failed attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power through violence, an elected lawmaker tells the white house chief of staff i am sorry nothing worked. that is chilling. we would like to ask mr. meadows what he thought about that.
we are getting a comprehensive portrait of what took place on january 6th but mr. meadows testimony is very significant for us. mr. chairman, the committee bent over backwards to accommodate mr. meadows request. he has no intention of complying with the subpoena even when his testimony could have no theoretical connection to an executive privilege claim. for example, he categorically refusing to show up to testify about 9,000 pages of documents he already turned over to the committee, and for which he has thus nullified any hypothetical assertions of executive privilege. he is refusing to testify about statements he made in his book published last week and in the media, about the events of january 6th. this is again another category of statements where any conceivable executive privilege claim were can be invoked has
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