doing nothing. trump s inaction is just a basic fact of the timeline. it is 1:10 in the afternoon when trump called on his supporters to march on the capitol. and we are going to the capitol. we are going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. shortly after 2:00, this was the scene trump was watching play on tv. rioters breaching the capitol. right? at 4:17 p.m., 187 minutes later, more than three hours passed before trump said this so, go home. we love you. you re very special. took 187 minutes to get that. that was the first action. go home, coupled with we love you, you re very special. pretty meek and pathetic as a definition of action. the timeline itself shows trump s inaction, it is just a fact of the record. but meadows text messages add crucial context because what they show is that people in real-time were telling meadows
contempt motion against steve bannon. and we are going to see what they choose to do tonight to the f former chief of staff for president trump. so as we await that vote as that room fills, cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, with me. along with senior legal analyst laura coates and two-term republican governor of ohio and former member of congress, himself, john kasich. thanks to both all three of you. i appreciate it. so let me start with you, laura, just the significance of this moment, right? chief of staff not been in this situation since nixon. a former member of done congress has not been in this position in 200 years. this is a contempt vote that does have historical sn signifi and weight to it. it does. and mark meadows knows better. remember, he was a former member of congress. he understands the gravitas that must be assigned to a subpoena. when you have already waived portions of it, you already
just how bad this was. coming in every single direction. it isn t just that trump saw it on tv. it s they were getting all this information comes coming in. in real time we saw how desperately they were for trump to take action which he failed to do. and now, cheney is suggesting that trump s inaction alone could be criminal. as the violence was underway on the 6th, it was evident to all. but we know that for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. and he he refused to act when his action was required. did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress s official proceeding to count electoral votes? paula reid is out front on capitol hill to begin our coverage as we await this crucial vote. paula, the house ready to send a strong message to meadows.
election. members of the january 6th committee now just a moment ago revealed some more of the text messages that he had willingly handed over to the committee before stonewalling. one of the texts reveals the conversations to overthrow the election result started on november 4th, the day after the election. a lawmaker messages meadows, quote, here is an aggressive strategy. why can t the states of georgia, north carolina, and pennsylvania, and other r-controlled state houses tee claire this is bs and just send their own electors to vote and have it go back to the scotus? that was the day after the election. meadows, in these conversations, the groundwork being laid for trump s big lie which would fuel the outrage and violence that happened on january 6th. and today, the vice chair of the january 6th committee, liz cheney, revealing the messages that meadows was receiving as the capitol was actually being attacked that day. some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from member
election itself. but on that day, demanding trump take immediate action. now, though, meadows is claiming that cheney and the committee are trying to use the evidence that he handed over to them to twist the truth on trump s inaction that day. they tried to weaponize text message selectively leak them to put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. and i can tell you this is the president did act. that was last night. i mean there is no twisting the messages or the timeline because the messages simply show that team trump was acutely aware of how bad the situation was while trump did nothing right? remember, according to the committee, trump s own son, donald trump jr. messages me doughs as the riot is going down he s got to condemn this, his word, shit, asap. he did not send that message because trump was doing something. he sent it because trump was