home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. brian kilmeade, please get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished. sean hannity, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol. donald trump jr., he s got to condemn this, the capitol police tweet is not enough. meadows responding, i m pushing it hard. i agree. donald trump jr., we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. now, madam vice chair, why is it not sufficient to say he complied up to the point where donald trump essentially told him to stop complying, why is his testimony further needed by our committee?
nose most gravity and importance to the future of american democracy. i favor this resolution to proceed with criminal contempt and i yield back to you mr. chairman. gentleman yields back. chair recognizes generalwoman from virginia. thank you mr. chairman, madam vice chair and fellow committee members. as many of us echoed, we don t take this vote lightly. but this committee and this congress is left with no other alternative when in the midst of an investigation of this magnitude, we are stonewalled at every turn by those a played a central role in the planning and execution of the january 6th attack. we have a detailed pictured of the attack and the events leading up to it. our committees heard from almost 300 people, we received more than 30,000 pages documents, and we continue to follow up every day on the more
hearing the really grave details of what this president was doing that we move on from the importance of understanding the specifics and the minute by minute of what happened. let me close with a couple questions about that, madam vice chair. last night, the committee invoked a whole set of messages that were discovered in asking questions to mr. meadows including republican lawmakers and others, sending frantic messages saying we are under siege up here at the capitol, they have breached the capitol. mark, the protesters are literally storming the capitol, breaking windows on our doors rushing in. is trump going to say something? there s an armed standoff at the house chamber door. we are all helpless. this one came from laura ingram. mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go
capitol of the united states? what happened, how it got started, who paid for it. what do you make of that claim? i think it s patently wrong. hr 503 gives us the authority as a committee look at the facts and circumstances surrounding january 6th. that s what we are that s what we re doing. it s very clear that house resolution 503 commands us to do precisely what the committee is doing. he s suggesting that it s come how unconstitutional. that congress doesn t have the authority to investigate an attack on the government of the united states, an attempt to overthrow the election. madam vice chair, what do you think about that claim? i think it s wrong. the federal courts have made it clear within the last two weeks or three weeks that, in fact, the committee has stated completely appropriate legislative purpose.
and develop the next line of questioning in person of that individual of which mr. meadows failed to do, follow through. i assume i have not seen the documents in question, the texts, emails and other documents but i assume they have given rise to probably hundreds of additional questions where the members of the committee and the congress and the american public should have the right to have the questions about those documents answered. i don t know, madam vice chair, if you want to comment on that. yes. absolutely you re right, mr. morelle. you also mentioned mr. meadows book. as the committee described last night, there are many instances in mr. meadows book where he talks about issues that are of great interest to us. including, for example, hhe