not been for the metropolitan police arrival, rioters would have succeeded. god only know what the outcome would have been if that occurred. we want to figure out why and share that information with the american people. either you are on the side of helping us figure out why, or you are trying to stop us from getting those answers. you can parade out whatever arguments you want, but really, that s all there is to it. and in real life, there are not a lot of bright line moments. this is one of them. and if you are listening at home, mr. meadows, mr. bannon, mr. clarke, i want you to know this. history will be written about these times, about the work this committee has undertaken, and history will not look upon any of you as martyrs. history will not look upon you as a victim. history will not gil dwell on
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
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