as president of the senate should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. you can see why this is so critical to ask mr. meadows about. about a lawmaker suggesting that the former vice president simply throat out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional in order to overturn a presidential election and subvert the will of the american people. here s the last message i want to highlight again from a lawmaker in the aftermath of january 6. if we could queue graphic number 3. yesterday was a terrible day. weep tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i m sorry nothing worked. the day after a failed attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power through violence, an elected lawmaker tells the white house chief of staff i m sorry nothing worked.
simply because mr. meadows didn t cooperate with us. we ll do what the law allows us to do. we gave him every opportunity. as you know, last week we had this situation and we pulled it back in hopes of mr. meadows and his attorney coming in and talking to us, but at the end they didn t. so we don t have much choice. that s why the committee went forward this evening with the recommendation on contempt, because he didn t show. and we re tired of the meadows game of whack a mole back and forth. the committee will go forward. mr. chairman, i wanted to ask you about what was the big news of yesterday that when your report first came out and that is this point i m going to quote from the report, mr. meadows sent an e-mail to an individual about the events of january 6th and said the national guard would be present to protect
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public. mr. chairman, one final question before you go. mark meadows has suggested that he would take the fifth amendment or he s relying on the fifth amendment for not responding to some of these questions. given everything you know about the evidence surrounding mark meadows, do you believe that he does have reason to take the fifth amendment because there is definitely the possibility in this evidence of a possible criminal prosecution of mark meadows for reasons that we out here don t yet know? given the information that we ve had to review as a committee, i think mr. meadows has significant reason to be concerned about his activities. chairman bennie thompson, we will leave it there for tonight. thank you very much for joining us on this very important news night for the committee and for
he needs to come before us and tell the truth. if he has nothing to hide, mr. meadows, you had more than an opportunity to come before our committee and just tell us what you know. but, unfortunately, he didn t. this seeps to be shaping up like architecturally anyway like a classic mafia prosecution that we used to see starting they actually began in the 1960s. what you always have in those are some people who were on the inside cooperate and tell their story and others don t, they never testify, they never tell their story. but still, prosecutors find a way to tell the complete story, even without getting any testimony from some of the very central players in those kinds of prosecutions. it seems to me if you re going to public hearings in the first three months of next year, you are won t have mark meadows, you won t have steve bannon. there are witnesses you won t