this country, the justice department doesn t seem actively engaged on that front.th cef they appear to be going after t the rioters themselves only, but congresswoman liz cheney is making it clear tonight the january 6th investigation is paying close attention to how this all happened and specifically the question of whether or not former president trump himself could be criminally liable for what happened.ent this is part of what the investigation wants to talk to mark meadows about.s listen to this. mr. meadows testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump through action or ina corruptly seek to obstructee or impede congress s official proceedings to count electoral votes? mr. meadows also has knowledge regarding president trump s efforts to persuade state officials to alter their official election results. in georgia, for instance, mr. meadows participated on a phone
of potential criminal liability for not just former officials but currently serving members. yeah, and you ve already seen some people actually being prosecuted for real crimes. i think we forget that because at this point it is such a common parlance. mark meadows is the third person to be held in criminal contempt in this investigation. but that is not a line as one gop lawyer said to me that you want in the first sentence of your obituary. and that is exactly what s happening to steve bannon and now potentially jeffrey clark and mark meadows. it is a serious charge. and the committee is revealing new pieces of potentially incriminating information with every deposition, interview, and document they receive. and what we still have yet to uncover is exactly what the president might be criminally liable for in those hours. that is why you see the committee focused on mark meadows and what exactly he was doing, who he was communicating
committee that he anticipates potential criminal prosecution related to these matters. and intends in upcoming testimony to invoke his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination. as mr. meadows nonprivileged texts reveal, meadows communicated multiple times with a member of congress who was working with mr. clark.f mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. clark has informed the committee he anticipates potential criminal prosecution related to these matters, and meadows texts reveal he communicated multiple times with a member of congress who was t working with jeff clark. so we learn through meadows production to the committee that he was that jeff clark was working with a sitting member of congress on that at the time. mark meadows documents apparently show which member of congress that is who was workint with jeff clark on this scheme for which mr. clark is now anticipating potential criminal prosecution.cl
i mean, that s what trump s call to georgia s secretary of state was about on january 2nd. mark meadows was on that call. that call was all about pressuring and bullying georgia s secretary of state into overturning biden s win in georgia.ia and, you know, it s a crime to intimidate or attempt to influence election officials in conducting their official duties. trump s currently under criminal investigation by a state prosecutor in georgia for that call. and for his other attempts to interfere with the conduct of the election in georgia. his other attempts to interfere with and to intimidate elections officials around the carrying out of their official duties. that investigation, we believe, includes mark meadows personal visit to georgia about ten days before that call pressuring the
preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. the upshot of the contempt report on mark meadows is that in those weeks preceding january 6th, mark meadows was neck deep in those efforts and that plot to disrupt and delay and ultimately overturn the election results. his attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim to say that he can t talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions with president trump are protected, those claims are very much undermined by, well, for one, the 9,000 documents he already handed over to the investigation. he says he handed over those documents because they weren t privileged. now he says he can t answer any questions about them because they re privileged? you already admitted they weren t. you have to answer questions about them. also, his privilege claims are undermined by the publication ot his recent book last week, which