enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i m pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. gloria, that is what donald trump jr. really thought. despite his many comments since, downplaying the whole event. and laura ingraham, who said this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. this is laura ingraham, who
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
opened to amendment as any point. the chair recognizes the generalwoman from california. thank you, mr. chairman. like all of us on the committee mark med [inaudible] reasonably when we certainly didn t agree on policy matters, i wished him well and when he left congress to serve the staff for then president donald trump in 2020. shocking we now have to face the fact that mr. meadows admits he played an official role in trying to undermined the results of the 2020 presidential election. this committee s job is to find out about that plot. the plot which led up to the events on january 6th, and to propose legislative changes to
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