inside the department of justice who is attempting to convince the leadership of the department of that time to look into these false claims of fraud in the election results and mark meadows, the fact that he would have been in contact with someone that thought this was a good idea and we know from our reporting he was in direct contact with jeff clark is significant and it shows exactly where the committee is going in terms of their investigation. the other one that s important and it was a small one. it was short but very significant is from a member of congress to meadows where all they said was please check your signal. so if you re familiar with signal, that is a messaging app that is encrypted and the messages often disappear. so keep in mind this is a member of congress in communication with the sitting white house chief of staff and they were basically saying we ll have a
so that s so there s a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast moving epidemic here in the united states and i think we have to take it very seriously and especially our health care administrators, our hospital administrators need to get ready for a very concerning surge over the next few weeks. it is very concerning. listen, so concerning there is much more to speak with you about. doctor, if you stick around, i want to get back with you after the break. we re coming up on 800,000 people. the doctor says it s going to go to about a million people will die because of covid-19. we have 900 students testing positive at cornell university and we heard from dr. rachial walensky. the vote has begun. mark meadows former chief of staff, the house is voting whether to hold him in contempt of congress, criminal contempt
breaking news, the vote is set to happen any minute on the capitol floor, on the house fl floor. you re looking at live pictures now. that vote will be whether to refer meadows to the contempt. they refused to show up to answer questions so joining me now, bob woodward, bob is a co-author of the book peril, the best selling book. bob, thank you for joining. good to see you. let s talk about your reporting with carl bernstein including president nixon s chief of staff. how would you assess what is happening now with mark meadows, former president trump and january 6th?
that on course will be adam kinzinger and liz cheney members of the january 6th committee. every other republican will probably vote no. the republican leadership is encouraging members to vote no. republican haves largely stuck together when it comes to this. there are enough democratic votes to get this over the finish line. from there it goes to the department of justice will decide whether or not to prosecute but, you know, don, i don t think we can really put enough significance on the fact that not only was mark meadows a former white house chief of staff as high as you can get in american government in a non-elected capacity, but he was also a member of this body, a member of congress. it is remarkable that this congress which he was a former member of will take this step of holding him in criminal contempt. it s something they don t do
is some basis. this case no basis that i have seen at all. none. none. you reported extensively for your book peril, you reported in that book about the people in president trump s ear leading up to the riots like john eastman, steve bannon. was meadows in the loop on the efforts to overturn the election? well, he was there. we didn t have much, we didn t have the kind of detail that has surfaced on this. but, again, that is he s the one a few days before january 6 that called a meeting in his office, the chief of staff s office down the hall from the oval office with senator lindsey graham and some others and said okay, what have we got here?