self-incrimination. as mr. meadows nonprivileged texts reveal, mr. meadows communicated multiple times with another member of this body who was working with mr. clark. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. january 6th was without precedent. there has been no stronger case in our nation s history for a congressional investigation into the actions of a former president. this body must investigate the facts in detail, and we are entitled to ask mr. meadows about the nonprivileged materials he has produced to us. madam speaker, i am sure you will hear my colleagues this afternoon say that there are privileged issues here that must be resolved before we can move forward. any argument that the courts need to resolve, privilege issues first, is a pretext. we will question mr. meadows
the judge to look at these documents at least some of them in secret, what s known as in camera, to first examine them for privilege issues first. interesting to citi whether she takes that approach. kaitlan, for you, how does what the judge decides here, how does what she decides affect the rest of the investigation? some of these depositions for other people are already on hold. so where is this going? that is absolutely right, laura. there is a pause essentially in the investigation where the house isn t getting access to these documents at the moment because they are being processed by the national archives. if there is a court order, that could block it further. there are dates where the national archives is set to turn things over on november 12, later in the month, theoretically after that, the judge in the federal court in d.c. could put a stop to that as things get figured out. there could also be appeals that put stops to things. as you mentioned, there are lots of witnesse