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Jeffrey clark as his attorney general to fulfill that and it seems mark meadows was on the receiving end of some communication or had insight into that plan by the former president. even in the 51-page contempt report and presentation last night during the committee s contempt hearing, these pieces of information were not yet released to the public. but it is news that there was a lawmaker working with mr. clark and that mark meadows was closely aligned with clark as well, which we did know. but who those lawmakers are that were part of this legal conspiracy or the effort to use the force of the information to overturn the results of the election is become a important pressure point for the committee and the reason why they want meadows to sit down for a ....
Congress. , again it s either privileged or it s not. if you have already conceded it s not privileged by writing about it reboot and handing over 9000 documents, you can t, after the fact, then say those things are covered by privilege. but there is one point in the contempt report from mark meadows. one set of questions in the january 6th investigator said they need to ask meadows. questions i think deserve particular attention. that s about meadows interaction with sitting members of the house and senate. here s how those interactions were described in the contempt report. this is from the transcript of the deposition that meadows didn t show up to. he didn t show up, but the rest of the committee showed up and the lead counsel for the investigation laid out for the record all the questions they would have asked mark meadows had he bother to appear. quote, we would ve asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from members of congress, gloomy text messages received from a mem ....
Preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. the upshot of the contempt report on mark meadows is that in those weeks preceding january 6th, mark meadows was neck deep in those efforts and that plot to disrupt and delay and ultimately overturn the election results. his attempts to exert some kind of executive privilege claim to say that he can t talk to the committee or give them documents because his interactions with president trump are protected, those claims are very much undermined by, well, for one, the 9,000 documents he already handed over to the investigation. he says he handed over those documents because they weren t privileged. now he says he can t answer any questions about them because they re privileged? you already admitted they weren t. you have to answer questions about them. also, his privilege claims are undermined by the publication ot his recent book last week, which ....
absolutely. and it s not like they re not making it in print. but the contempt report that they put out on the weekend is full of news. but when they made those remarks tonight at the committee hearing, the televised hearing at 7 pm, it just blew me away. intense. i just want to get out of here so you could talk to benny thompson and liz cheney. that is what we are going to do. thank you rachel. well tonight, mark meadows became the second white house chief of staff in history to be accused of a crime before, mark meadows the only white house chief of staff accused of a crime was also republican. in 1974, president nixon s criminal chief of staff, was charged with conspiracy, perjury, and he was convicted to prison. mark meadows was five years we in during the first criminal prosecution. so mark meadows learned nothing from the example of bowl hold when. ....
Includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with president trump. you can t sell a book based on your conversations with the es president and then claim you cannot talk about those ti conversations with the president when subpoenaed to do so by the united states congress.ti again, it s either privileged or it s not. if you ve already conceded it s not privileged by writing about it in your book and handing over 9,000 documents you can t after the fact then say those things are covered by privilege. but there s one point in the contempt report for mark ierca meadows, one set of questions the january 6th investigators say they need to ask meadows that i think deserves particular attention, and that s about meadows interaction with sitting members of the house and senate.h i mean, here is how those interactions are described in the contempt report. this is from the transcript of the deposition that meadows rero didn t show up to. he didn t show up, but the rest ....