insisting he sort of wants to engage with the committee or has been saying that. of course, he was only engaging in what appears to be now a stall tactic looking like he was cooperating, but his lawyer making clear, he wasn t going to share anything that touched on the president s conversations or rather meadow s conversations with the president. then he backed off the deposition. the third sirius, of course, is meadows writing a book in which he s revealing public forgive me very unpublic medical private records of the president discussing conversations he had with the president all of which you think would be a little more concerning to reveal. but they re valuable in the book as news nuggets. it s a great analogy, laying it out is illustrative of where we are at the moment. you heard lee anne looking ahead at this potential contempt for mark meadows.
msnbc. for now, nicolle wallace picks it up with deadline: white house, right now. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the january 6th select committee making clear today that it will not sit idly by while the disgraced ex president and his aides and allies work to obstruct their investigation into the deadly capitol insurrection. the committee chair saying the committee will move ahead with contempt proceedings against mark meadows after meadows failed to show up today for his deposition. the prospect of meadows following in the footsteps of trump ally steve bannon and facing criminal concept charges for defying a congressional subpoena, a subpoena from the body in which he once served comes after meadows actually struck a deal to testify and after he produced lots and lots of rich documents for the
investigation. the committee would not confirm to nbc news how many subpoenas for phone records have gone out in total but here s what congressman aguilar had to say about this aspect of their investigation. this is just finding out who individuals were talking to, additional touring that january 5th and january th time frame. we have been able to gather critical information to our investigation, to our legislative efforts. this was this was systemic. this was what was? this was an opportunity for these individuals to disrupt the election and to come up with an alternate slate of electors. that was what they were focused on. january 6th select committee getting their hands on the goods, holding obstructionists accountable, even as their investigation roars forward. it s where we start this our are yamiche alcindor, she will soon be washington correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. welcome, my friend. she will continue to moderate washington week on pbs. also joining us, tim
how much he is cooperating what he has given the committee so far as it relates to documents and text messages even as he blows off this deposition. reporter: yeah, that s right, in a few short weeks, meadows says he was cooperating with the committee. he handed over documents a. member zoe lofgren indicated he did so yesterday and today we got the letter for the chair saying to meadow s attorney who details some of those communications he did hand of with the committee. those include a series of text messages on january 6th with a member of congress. the letter says about appointing alternate electors in certain states as a part of the plan as a member ac nonld would be highly controversial in which mr. meadows apparently said, quote, i love it. he also sent tech moonls to the head of the organizer on the
president sat on his hands for a good long while, while his chief of staff and others were begging him to act thank you so much to the both of you. i appreciate your reporting here on this busy afternoon. i am joined by congressman adam schiff, a member of the house select committee. thank you for being back on the show. good afternoon. it s good to be with you. so let me layout a few facts of the matter. when do you expect to hold a house vote to hold mark meld doughs in contempt of change? we were in discussion about that right now. it will take time to put the committee report recommendation together and of course we re at the end of the session, so we re trying to make sure we can get this done expeditiously before we recess for the rest of the year. so you are looking at christmas, though, right? yes, it is our hope and expectation we will move asap. some of the details we talked about. i don t know how much you heard of the discussion of our