has no choice but to hold the former white house chief of staff mark meadows in contempt after he failed to show up for a scheduled deposition this hour. cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild joins us now. the letter from the committee chair, bennie thompson, has new details about correspondence so far between meadows and the committee. what are we learning? reporter: we re learning what documents meadows has handed over to the committee. here are a couple of examples, reading right from the letter, he produced documents that apparently meadows agrees are relevant but not protected by executive privilege. that s going to come up in a very important way once i m done getting through what he provided. he handed over a november 7th email discussing alternate slates of directors as part of a, quote, direct and collateral attack after the election. he s handed over a january 5th email regarding a 38-page power
we never won it that s the problem, brian, having been there. there wasn t anything to win. after we went and killed them. we could have a small footprint to do that but, frankly, after the navy seals killed bin laden, that was about our mission was complete there. and we kept trying to build a national army that didn t exist and we knew it that s an intelligence dod failure and now we have thousands, tens of thousands of weapons, heavy weapons that will fall into the hands of the taliban, helicopters, vehicles, because we built something we knew couldn t last. it looked good on paper in some pentagon power briefing oh look the afghan army has 300,000 troops. we believed it to the end when we should have known without our support and without payment, the taliban would the more motivated legitimate force would carry the day. and that s why the airport is surrounded. we have troops in harm s way trying to defend people and evacuate and others who can t get there the amount of texts i