proceedings to count electoral votes. mark meadows testimony is necessary to inform our judgment. he refused to give any testimony at all. even regarding nonprivileged topics. he is is in contempt of congress. mr. meadows also has knowledge regarding president trump s efforts to persuade state officials to alter their official election results. in georgia, for instance, mr. meadows participated on a phone call between president trump and georgia secretary of state raffensberger and meadows was on the phone when president trump asked the secretary of state to find 11,780 votes. to change the results of the presidential election in georgia. we know from the text mr. meadows turned over that at the time of that call, he appears to have been texting other participants on the call. again, mr. meadows has no
chairman tomppson and vice chair cheney. tonight we are hearing from an aide to benny thompson that he will recognize any member of the committee who wishes to speak on the resolution. you can see them walking out to take their seat. so, just to let everyone know, as they do so, mark meadows is at the heart of the investigation. deeply involved in former president trump s efforts to overturn election. literally by trump s side during the insurrection and the stone walling is an about face. what they will is presumably things we haven t seen in the document they put out. they put out a 55 page document in his contempts and what he provide. he provided 6,000 pages of documents to the committee before he decided he was not going to talk about them or provide anything more. and those documents include a messuage and january 5th claiming the national guard will be present to protect pro trump people. and just moments we expect to learn more live about what s in the documents and we could be
at all. this constitutes legal contempt. but also personal contempt. mark meadows actions demonstrates contempt for congress, for the select committee for his former colleague, and for the integrity of the democratic process. he has clearly rejected this committee s investigation so now it s time to see whether the department of justice can be more persuasive. no one is above the law. not even a former president s chief of staff. in a nation of laws, you cannot have it both ways. he can t decline to tell the story to congress and on the same day publish part of that story in a book to line his pockets. he can t decline to produce documents even can t unspeak what he has said and call it privileged after the fact. it is perfectly conceivable that portions of what a
recognize the gentleman from california. thank you. i want to pick up where he left off. 9,000 pages of records, that is what mr. meadows turned over, records over which mr. meadows asserted no claim of privilege, non, including thousands of text messages spanning the months before election day between election day and the end of the former president s [inaudible] january 6th. the time period he is now saying he won t discuss with the committee. i want to display just a few of the messages he received from people in congress. the committee is not naming the lawmakers at this time as our investigation is ongoing. if we could cue the first graphic. this one reads, january 6th, 2021, vice president mike pence
is trump going to say something? a fourth, there s an armed stand off at the house chamber door. and another, from someone inside the capitol. we are all helpless. dozens of texts including from trump administration officials, urged immediate action by the president. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. in another. mark, he needs to stop this now. a third in all caps, tell them to go home. a fourth, and i quote, potus needs to calm this down. and indeed, according to the records, multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed