for in your view? to me, it demonstrates a problem that trump has had dating back to the 2016 campaign, you know, in neil s description of waldren the problem is trump allows people like this to surround him at all different points in his presidency, including the 2016 election, most campaigns would not have had people like them working for them and that theme continued throughout the presidency, where there were people in the administration who wouldn t have been in normal administrations. and what you see at the end, in those final 60 days after the election, is that even those who were the guard rail, who were around, are gone, and allows even more of these individuals like the vitillo guy and waldren
visited the white house on multiple occasions after the election, spoken to mark meadows maybe eight to 10 times and briefed several members of congress on election fraud theories and as you said, the letter gets into the powerpoint and so on, but what congress is doing here is really trying to get information not about waldren per se, but about waldren contact with trump, and meadows and meadows with congress and if any of those individuals could violate that criminal statute earlier, obstruction of official proceeding and indeed, in this letter to waldren today repeats language from that statute, so this is rapidly becoming a criminal investigation, and a criminal investigation looking not just at some low level kooks but people in positions of power. mike shmidt, i mean low level kook should be used, i guess, loosely.
where this investigation seems to be focusing its efforts on the documents. we ve talked about adam kinsinger describing the memos as a blueprint for a coupe, now clearly singling out the creator of this document turned over by mark meadows in the 9,000 documents he did turn over as an alarming blueprint for overturning a nation-wide election. so i think, nicole, the documents are really important, as you say, but i think it s a lot more than the documents. it s actually what this suggests to me is they are now circling around key individuals in power, both in congress, the white house, and most specifically, mark meadows. i have a copy of the letter just sent to phil waldren who is a kook and i m sure facing some liability but it s about more than that. what they say is according to public reporting, you claim to
puts us in a dangerous place down the road. i think with mr. waldren whether he goes there, very interested to see not just in terms of the committee but other charges in terms of criminal and civil liability, if he is advancing outright lies repeatedly such as defecting the conduct of democracy. in the last block, i played for neils, i won t do it again, liz cheney on tuesday night invoking the language of the criminal code and asking did donald trump through action or inaction corruptedly seek to impede the lawful political code and i wonder if she is, intentionally or by virtue, the attention and power of her words, the text messages from talks news to meadows, from trump s son to meadows, if she is applying pressure on this
to know. they want to know if the trump administration did in fact have a clear link with the rally organizers, with some of these things that phil waldren, for example, is outlining, and the washington post is reporting he has been in contact with meadows and the white house. we reached out to phil waldren, we haven t heard back yet, but let s listen to what rep cicilline said this morning. i think there are a lot of people who argue what happened on january 6th is some sort of organic event where people got carried away. what the select committee is revealing in the early part of its work is there was an awful lot of planning, financing, strategizing, and that it involved people at the highest levels of government. so the committee is actually going to hold a vote to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress tomorrow because they want to know more about this powerpoint, about these meetings. but look, another big takeaway in the last couple days was on friday and that new batch