investigation after initially engaging with the committee and after he turned over thousands of pages of records. last night the january 6 committee revealed just a few of those records, mostly text messages between mark meadows and unnamed republicans on the hill as well as trump's family and fox news hosts, all asking meadows to urge the former president to tell the mob attacking the capitol to stand down. tonight the committee made public another text message. it was sent november 4th, the day after the 2020 election and before all the votes were counted from a lawmaker to mark meadows. this is how it reads, quote, here's an aggressive strategy. why can't the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania and other republican-controlled state houses declare this is b.s. were conflicts and elections were not called that night. let's take a vote and have it go to the supreme court. vice chair liz cheney referred to those texts during the house debate prior to tonight's contempt vote. >> some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from members in the chamber right now. members who understood that a violent assault was underway at the capitol, members who pleaded with the chief of staff to get the president to take action. i read a number of these last night at our hearing. i won't read them all today, but i will read a few of them. mark, one member said, he needs to stop this now. in all caps, tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. >> now, as for the fox news hosts who pleaded with meadows to convince trump to stop the violence at the capitol, here's what the january 6 committee said sean hannity wrote to mark meadows and what he said on air that night. >> people who acted violently today, they don't represent the millions of law-abiding, hard-working, tax-paying citizens, responsible american patriots that are worried about election integrity. >> and then here's how hannity responded tonight. >> i have always been consistent on january 6 and every other riot. liz cheney, have you ever called for a committee on the riots in the summer of 2020? we condemned january 6, we did it that day as it was happening, we did it that night on this show, just like we condemned the 574 left wing riots in the summer of 2020. >> the january 6 committee has yet to reveal which lawmakers were texting with meadows. today senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was asked if he was one of them. >> i was not, but i do think we're all watching, as you are, unfolding on the house side, and it will be interesting to reveal all the dissonants who were involved. >> again, that vote is ongoing. folks have been coming up to the lectern giving their votes. a full house voting on the previous chief of staff, mark meadows, for criminal contempt, and then it would be up to the biden justice department to decide how to finish. john eastman is now suing the committee and verizon over subpoenas of his phone records. eastman, who is also refusing to cooperate with the committee and takes the fifth, wonders how former vice president pence might overturn the 2020 election. the committee did hear from another gentleman, mike stockton, who took over the ellipse in the capitol riot. >> the buck has got to stop at president trump. he knew better and there is no excuse for him sending people down in that situation without having the logistics, the security, the stage and sound system to control the crowd. that stuff could have been in place and should have been in place before he ever sent people down there. >> also tonight a federal judge has dismissed trump's lawsuit to shield his tax returns from the house ways and means committee. the ruling from that trump-appointed judge gives the committee chairman broad leeway to request those documents despite trump's status as a former president. the judge also gave the former president 14 days to appeal. also tonight, federal health officials are increasingly concerned about the rapid spread of the omicron covid variant. new cdc data says omicron could lead to a major surge of infections as soon as january. we have a leading doctor standing by to take our questions on that later in this hour. and in kentucky tonight, search efforts continue following those deadly tornadoes that roared through the south this past weekend. there are still more than 100 people unaccounted for. president biden will visit one of the hardest hit regions in kentucky tomorrow. with that let's bring in our lead-off guest on this tuesday night, carol lennig, with the "washington post," philip rucker with the best-seller "i alone can fix it." associate editor and columnist for "real clear politics, and paul butler, a former corruption prosecutor at the justice department, currently a professor at georgetown law. good to have all of you here. as that book continues, carol, liz cheney wrote more texts to lawmakers this morning before tonight's vote. take a listen. >> here are a few others from republican members. quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. another one, the president needs to stop this asap. another one, fix this now. hours passed with no action by the president to defend the congress of the united states. this brings up another point. did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct congress' official proceeding to count electoral votes? >> carol, it seems this is all putting the investigation closer to the oval office before and during the january 6 riot. >> absolutely, chris, and i think you get a good sense from liz cheney's question right there. it's almost as if she is in the u.s. attorney's office and asking not the question of the nixon and watergate era, but very similar to what did the president know and when did he know it? in this case her central question is did the president corruptly engage in trying to keep congress from doing its duty, its constitutional duty, to certify an election that donald trump's administration, his national security officials concluded was one of the most carefully and properly monitored and accurate election result that led to joe biden being the next president. i think it's also really important, chris, to keep in mind what's going on in terms of this first little dribble of pretty fascinating details. we all knew, because we all watched it, we all knew the president didn't act. additional reporting by lots of good peers and also by wonderful people that i work with at the "washington post" revealed how long it took the president to act, how many times his own daughter and mark meadows were pleading with him to say something to call off the dogs. but in this case now, in the last 24 hours, chris, we see that members of fox news who were essentially a public relations agency for the president at times often were begging with him to do something more dramatic to save lives, that his own white house staff were begging him, and that finally republican members who now claim at the rostrum that january 6 was no big deal were also begging meadows to get trump to help them, to protect them, to save them from what they were going through, which was basically racing through congressional tunnels to save their own skins. >> we just got the final count there. it has passed, 222-208, two republicans. i think we can guess who the two republicans might be. now that this goes to the doj, is it similar or completely different than the consideration of what should happen to steve bannon? >> it's pretty much the same except that mark meadows is even a more compelling witness. he's already provided the committee with texts and documents that suggest he was down and dirty with donald trump on january 6. but now meadows refuses to talk even about the evidence he's provided the committee. he's provided the team over 30,000 documents, but meadows' testimony could be key to holding the insurrectionists and their congressional enablers and oval office enabler accountable. chris, if meadows is ultimately found to be in criminal contempt, he faces a minimum sentence of a month in prison, it could be up to a year. but here's the thing. the panel would much rather have his testimony. so tonight's vote could be the ultimate pressure for meadows to actually cooperate, not the fake cooperation he said he would do and then reneged on in less than a week. and the stakes could not be higher. the chair of the panel said that the evidence reveals that our democracy was inches from ruin on january 6. >> it also reveals to us, a.b., and, of course, he was the chief of staff, but the more we learn, the more we learn that meadows seems to be at the center of what happened in the november election. from your perspective, how critical is he now to this house investigation? >> oh, he is. he was clearly, from the texts that congresswoman cheney has revealed, the point person not only for panicked congressional members during the rioting, but for the planning of some kind of defense of donald trump's defeat on january 3rd, that they were planning this throughout november and december. he was closely involved with power points and john eastman's argument, anti-constitutional, though they were, he seems to be intricately involved in trying to find a way to overturn the election. working with members of congress who is working with jeffrey fargue, the assistant attorney general at the department of justice on this effort as well. this was a vast effort crossing throughout the executive branch and into the congress and mark meadows appears to be a point person. i think he is right. his book isn't going to sell. he's provided this motherlode of information, but they still need to talk to him about trump's state of mind, planning in november and december, what was unfolding on january 6, and there might be -- because he never wanted them to come to this contempt vote and a possible indictment, it might be too much pressure for him and he might have to fold and end up speaking with them. he really has a lot of financial considerations that are bearing down upon him, and if trump is never going to speak to him again, anyway, he might, in the end, buckle. >> and it is so compelling, carol. the committee now seems to be willing to let the public see what they are collecting as evidence. what do you know about this as part of an overall strategy by the committee? >> the committee's overall goal, chris, as we reported a few weeks ago, is to have a final report that is akin to the mueller report, although i think it will be a heck of a lot clearer. the report will have two pieces. one will be a narrative. essentially the, you know, lit fiction but non-fiction version of what really happened from soup to nuts. >> tiktok? >> no, i hope not a tiktok. i hope not. i hope it will be longer than that. and i'm promised it's a lot longer than a tiktok. so a narrative that's really going to take us through those days when the president really was planning to challenge the election if he didn't win or if the results didn't work for him. then all of the people who gathered round his, you know, coattails to encourage, enable and provide methods for him to challenge that election. keep in mind a really critical part of that narrative is in the late or mid-stage of december. at the time donald trump is getting more and more desperate. his attorney general has told him there is no proof of any fraud. his assistant attorney general has told him, and his white house counsel has told him, that nobody is going to be working at the justice department if the president tries to force that department to declare the election fraudulent in swing states. the president is getting more and more nervous that he's going to have to give over the reins of power he's fought for so hard. and who comes to his rescue? some very interesting members of congress, republican members of congress who begin meeting with him. and the committee is zeroing in on its own brethren who were encouraging the president along this path. i'll tell you one more thing the committee is going to do at the end of all this, which is to make recommendations so that nothing like this would ever happen again, that our democracy would not come within a couple of inches of going off the rails. keep in mind one of the things that could have gone so awry, vice president pence at the time insisted on staying in the chamber. he was angry. he had been threatened, his life has been threatened, his children were with him, his wife was with him. he stayed in that chamber to certify the election. mitch mcconnell insisted that they would clear it whether there were bombs still possibly in the building, he wanted back in prime time to start a fight. a lot of things could have gone wrong in terms of the lack of a peaceful transfer of power, and that's what's so chilling about this, and one of the elements of the committee's work, which they've dedicated themselves to and promised to do is a recommendation about all of the ways to stop that from happening again in case another president determines that he's not going to go along with 200 years of tradition and agree that the winner will become the next president. >> what we haven't seen, paul, so far is any indication that the committee is gearing in on one particular criminal charge that they think the president should face, the former president. but do you think they're gearing up to subpoena trump, and if so, how would that work? >> so last night liz cheney tracked the federal obstruction statute to suggest that donald trump was guilty of impeding a congressional investigation or congressional proceeding. if trump -- >> that's a felony, isn't it, paul? >> it is a felony. and trump has criminal exposure if he's subpoenaed by the panel. he would almost certainly claim the fifth and refuse to testify on those grounds. >> so, a.b., i guess the other question is we watched a little bit of fox news tonight because we were waiting to see what smm of those folks who had sent the tweets on that day were saying now about it today. but what are you hearing about how what we've learned over the past couple of days is landing with the republican party in general? >> well, you see from this vote, chris, it's the same protection that they gave steve bannon. no one is coming to the mic and speaking to reporters even on background to just disavow the revelations from these texts, there will be no defections. they are protecting the president and his role in january 1, downplaying this event in history, whitewashing the facts of that day. no one, after liz cheney's explosive performance in the committee last night and again today, has come out and said, that's it, this is terrible. i came here to -- and took an oath to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and i'm done. you're just going to continue to see them find a way to make their arguments in order to protect donald trump and their own ranks among whom, as carol points out, there are people who engaged potentially at a criminal level in january. so expect nothing new. i don't think no matter how bad the revelations get, and when the names are named by the panel, i think they'll continue to see a full defense and unity on the republican side. >> so much more to come, and once again tonight, that vote, 222-208. the two republicans were, indeed, as was easy to guess. liz cheney, who has really been at the center of this the last couple days in reading most of those texts, and adam kinzinger. we will continue to watch this as it develops. carol leonnig, a.b. stoddard and paul butler, thanks for joining us tonight. one of the witnesses saw, as he put it, the unimaginable become the inevitable as they tried to damage the capitol on january 6. we'll meet a doctor who fears hundreds of thousands more may die soon. 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>> that's why i call my book a lie. it's an autocratic movement, and the autocratic charge is donald trump, and if it wasn't donald trump, it would be another autocratic. it's a complete collapse, i really think unlike anything we've ever seen, certainly in modern history. we are forgetting the fact that talking about it, these republicans don't believe that joe biden is a legally elected president. they don't think we live in a democracy. they think they live in an occupied country. how do you meet these people halfway? all of this is just out the window on normal political rules. and it's not going to change until they're defeated. it's the absolute truth. that's the only way you have to question this. >> what do you make of this, juanita, the vote that we mentioned earlier? when it was steve bannon, nine republicans voted along with democrats, now it's the same two who are on the committee, one of whom is not running for reelection. what we're learning about january 6, what we've seen in these texts hasn't moved people. >> hasn't moved republicans, let's say that. the general public latched onto this and are fully aware we can expect more of these types of big details, this burst of information. >> do you think the folks in the middle are watching this and saying, oh, maybe i need to look at this in a different way? >> i think they're watching, because at this point it comes down to what this all leads to. and so like professor butler mentioned in your previous segment, if this leads to a referral for criminal charges against trump, against other members of congress, you can believe those individuals who have been watching this from start to finish, because we were all watching january 6, the democrats are saying, if i don't get accountability here, i'm shutting down. so you know the suburban voters are paying attention to this to see what type of accountability does yield from these investigations. without that accountability, a number of voters will be turned off and say, hey, this was just an ineffective effort by democrats to do nothing which ultimately lends our democracy to be as vulnerable as it was on january 6. >> as he watches this unfold, i want to play this "axios" interview with congressman jim clyburn. take a listen. >> for a party such as the republican party that my parents were members of, for them to turn the whole party apparatus over to one person means you're no longer a party and that's what's happening. it's time for the right thing, for people in this country to step away from cult worship. >> but, stuart, adam kinzinger stepped away and he's not running for reelection. liz cheney is a constant target tonight on fox news, so what's the answer? >> look, i have one disagreement with the congressman there. i don't think that donald trump contained the party, i think donald trump revealed the party. these people are what they want to be. the republican party is very comfortable being an autocratic movement now. that's hard for a lot of us who worked in the party to come to grips with, but i don't know any other conclusion to come to in any kind of honest, intellectual sense. they are about the business of changing what we've always known as american democracy. there was a plot to end the peaceful transition of power, and mitch mcconnell surely knew about this powerpoint. he did nothing. it's at a point that really is almost unimaginable for us. >> and what is the motivation, juanita, if they're looking at a midterm set of elections that they think they're going to take back the house and the senate? >> that's the sole motivation. align ourselves with trump to tap into his urban base. that's why mccarthy, just days after the january 6 attack, wanted to kiss trump's ring down in mar-a-lago, that's why all the republican campaign committees are aligned and on target with what donald trump wants. donald trump candidates, trump endorsements. they know he helps them raise money and turn out voters, and that's what this is about, nothing more. they sold their souls a long time ago to trump, and don't expect anything to change on that front. while representative clyburn is saying, hey, we need level heads here, there aren't any left in the republican party. they are all fully aligned with trump and expect them to continue this cover-up for trump and to do his bidding. coming up, we're going to look at what is next in the fight for voter legislation as a keynote speaker points out what it's like on the floor speech. when "11th hour" continues. when "11th hour" continues do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep? 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>> they should be worried about voters who won't stay at home waiting to vote. >> or wait hours and then get turned away. >> and then get turned away. it is a threat to our democracy which is under perpetual attack from the previous president. so this is why it should be front and center, and it should have been front and center this entire year, but biden and the white house decided, okay, we're going to put off legislation for a series of economic bills. i appreciate senator warnock so much for making that statement and emphasizing the fact that our democracy matters just as much as our economy because it dictates how we live our lives and experience our rights in this country. and failure to recognize that, failure to recognize how raising the debt limit in making that quick change to the senate rules was a slap in the face for every person who has put their body on the line, who has risked arrest for voting rights, and participating in hunger strikes like joe madison and the students in arizona right now is to ignore the fact that our basic liberties are under attack, and democrats have the ability to change that. so i'll echo what senator warnock said today as well. targeted at whose expense? we know they're targeted to black and brown neighborhoods, we know they're targeted to people with disabilities who need extra support to cast their vote. it's clear senate has the power to change the rules and get this done. >> stuart, the "washington post" had some scenarios with possible filibusters and legal rights. they said, go nuclear and get rid of the filibuster entirely. also not very likely, keep the filibuster as is. possible, tweak the filibuster by carving out a one-time exception to voting rights. most likely, make the filibuster more painful for the republican party. how do you feel this might play out, stuart? >> i really don't know. i believe it goes to the central question of do you believe there is an existential threat to american democracy? i think it's pretty obvious. if you have a powerpoint to plot the peaceful transition to power, i don't know how much more obvious it can be. so i think it is an existential threat. this is sort of like a pandemic, i think. what we say at the beginning will sound alarmist but will prove to be adequate in the end. a lot of these people, this is what they want. they really want to change democracy because they can't come to grips with a changing america, with an increasingly non-white america and their inability to track those votes and the tragic reaction to it has been to make it harder for those people to vote. so it is essential that this get passed. no one is going to remember what it did to the filibuster. what we're going to remember in '22 and '24 is the last election in our lifetime that resembles anything we've known as a democracy. >> we stand up for democracy. juanita toliver, stuart stevens, thanks to both of you. health officials fear a worst-case scenario where covid and the flu overwhelm health systems, when "the 11th hour" continues. hour" continues. and how important it is to know who you are and to know where you came from. doesn't that look like your papa? 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do we really know yet how dangerous the omicron variant is? what's your analysis of where we are? >> hi, chris. we don't really know yet. we have to keep waiting. it's very difficult to wait, we all want to know the answers. the latest reports in south africa are that omicron may be leveling off. we don't know where this is going. we do know it will be rapidly contagious to people, wherever there are unvaccinated people. we do know that they are probably less protected by the vaccines that are currently out there, but we also know, and this is on the good news side, chris, as people get two doses plus a booster, one of the mrna vaccines, or have had covid and get two doses, those people will still be quite protected, we think, now from being hospitalized or dying from covid-19. >> you put it this way on twitter to that point. you said, we have two americas, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed. the vast majority of triple vaxxed will be protected from covid or death. the unvaxxed, you're playing russian roulette. why would anyone take such a risk when vaxxed is safe and works? why? it was one year ago today, doctor, a nurse in new york became the first person in america to get an authorized covid shot. since then the virus has killed half a million more people in the united states. where did we go wrong? >> well, it's not really understood well where we went wrong, chris. here's the thing. in medical school, we learned about viruses, we learned about vaccines and virology and everything related to it. we did not learn about political extremism and ignorance creating a barrier to getting the country and all of its citizens protected from a deadly virus. i'm befuddled, and if any of my colleagues say they aren't, then i'd like to talk to them, because i don't know that we know how to deal with this, but this is about political messaging, it's about making people understand what are they putting their lives in their hands for? to prove frailty to donald trump? to demonstrate a particular idealogy? why would anyone do that in the face of a deadly virus. it just is befuddling. >> we do see some change. kroger is taking away paid covid benefits and adding insurance surcharges for unvaccinated employees. is that what it's going to take? is that a good idea? >> it's going to take extreme actions where it's possible to do that. i've been promoting the idea of no money getting on an airplane for a domestic or international flight in they can't prove they've been vaccinated, if we make it difficult enough for people to live their lives without being vaccinated, i think that may be the kind of thing that we're going to need. but why does it take such efforts, but really, the answer is, you will live. you'll survive covid if you get vaccinated. >> there was another big piece of news today with pfizer saying its antiviral covid pill has a 90% efficacy for fighting hospitalization and death in covid patients. here's what the cdc said earlier today. >> if ten people go to the hospital, only one will go and they are not dying. that's very, very good news. >> last week you relied on the overlying situation to pass through this pandemic. what are your concerns? >> first of all, i should say i was calling the idea of these new pills game changers, because they would save lives and there is no question about that. although there may be a question about it with the merck pill, but that's because the merck pill had some side effects. but the pfizer pill would probably save quite a few lives. it actually gives a reason? 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maybe the news got so mad that they didn't get enough attention last week, or as children or something. so now they're making us pay for. it i don't know. but keeping up with the late breaking news, just today, for whatever reason, it has been like lucy and ethel trying to keep up with all the chocolates flying down the conveyor belt faster and faster. the news gods are -- [laughs] >> it's no mercy from the news gods today. let's start