local xfinity store today. we re awaiting a house vote on whether to refer president trump s former chief of staff mark meadows to the justice department for contempt of congress. will it get us closer to learning what exactly led to the insurrection and how to prevent another one? my next guest says our democracy barely survived january 6th. welcome progressive caucus chair pramila jayapal. congresswoman, thank you so much
and in this text message, the official told meadows, quote, we need to end this call. i don t think it will be productive for much longer. now, this is significant because this committee is not just interested in january 6th, not just interested in the insurrection. they are also investigating the days and weeks leading up to january 6th, and efforts by meadows, by trump, by anyone else to undermine confidence in the election. now, another new revelation tonight from the committee, a text message that draws the first definitive connection between meadows and a former top department of justice official, jeffrey clark. clark while at the justice department was a big proponent of using the power of that department to help pursue trump s efforts to overturn or undermine the election. and in this particular text message, someone is referencing rumblings that clark could potentially be appointed acting attorney general, and this unnamed person texts meadows saying, quote, that s amazing. i m
need to end this call. i don t think it will be productive for much longer. now, this is significant because this committee is not just interested in january 6th, not just interested in the insurrection. they are also investigating the days and weeks leading up to january 6th, and efforts by meadows, by trump, by anyone else to undermine confidence in the election. now, another new revelation tonight from the committee, a text message that draws the first definitive connection between meadows and a former top department of justice official, jeffrey clark. clark while at the justice department was a big proponent of using the power of that department to help pursue trump s efforts to overturn or undermine the election. and in this particular text message, someone is referencing rumblings that clark could potentially be appointed acting attorney general, and this unnamed person texts meadows saying, quote, that s amazing.
thousands of pages of records. the case really is different. it could make it more difficult for some republicans to support referring him to the justice department for criminal charges. but the house select committee over the past three days, michael, we have seen they have been making their case certainly in the court of public opinion about why meadows should be held in contempt. now, they argue that, look, you clearly handed over thousands of pages of documents. you didn t think those were privileged. you should at least come in and answer questions about these documents and over the past three days they have slowly been rolling out new details, some of them truly shocking. tonight we re learning more about the kind of messages that meadows was receiving, including a new text message from an official in georgia. now, meadows received this text message according to the committee during that january 2nd call where former president trump was pressuring george officials to, quote, find
[suitcase closing] [gusts of wind] [gusts of wind] [ding] a live look right now at a house rules committee hearing happening on the hill. we re talking about the upcoming full house vote on whether to refer steve bannon to the justice department for contempt of congress. it comes after the committee