cooperating. back to not cooperating. today blowing off a planned deposition, triggering the wrath of some of his one-time house colleagues, including adam schiff, a member of that january 6th committee. he will be here live for a one-on one live in just a minute. the head of instagram playing defense. you are looking at it, on the left side of the screen, facing questions. what one senator is saying it s too little too late. outside d.c., the president expected to speak in just about 30 minutes. you see that shot right there on the new infrastructure law as our team reports on new cracks in the democratic party, including a break with the president from a couple democrats over his covid vaccine mandate. i m halle jackson in washington. we have lots to get to here. we are joined by carol leonnig, national reporter for the washington post and msnbc contributor and a star of the show. one of the things important to talk about as we look ahead to the contempt charges again
committee. a letter isn t by his attorney reveals a treasure drove of documents detailing the inner workings of the trump white house in the run-up to the deadly insurrection. it includes discussions about alternate electors on the same day that president bidenways declared the winner of the 2020 election. those documents were provided to the committee by meadows include, quote, a november 7th 2020 email discussing the appointment of all the mat slates of electors as parts of a direct and similarly attack after the election, a january 5th, 2021 emailrd ring a 38-page power point briefing entitled election fraud, foreign interference, and options for january 6th that was to be provided on the hill. among others, a january 5th 2021 email about having the national guard on stand by. it is in light of those documents being in the hands of the january 6th committee and the disgraced expresident s rage over revelations about his shall we say sickness in mark meadows new tell-all bo
Insisting he sort of wants to engage with the committee or has been saying that. of course, he was only engaging in what appears to be now a stall tactic looking like he was cooperating, but his lawyer making clear, he wasn t going to share anything that touched on the president s conversations or rather meadow s conversations with the president. then he backed off the deposition. the third sirius, of course, is meadows writing a book in which he s revealing public forgive me very unpublic medical private records of the president discussing conversations he had with the president all of which you think would be a little more concerning to reveal. but they re valuable in the book as news nuggets. it s a great analogy, laying it out is illustrative of where we are at the moment. you heard lee anne looking ahead at this potential contempt for mark meadows.
Msnbc. for now, nicolle wallace picks it up with deadline: white house, right now. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the january 6th select committee making clear today that it will not sit idly by while the disgraced ex president and his aides and allies work to obstruct their investigation into the deadly capitol insurrection. the committee chair saying the committee will move ahead with contempt proceedings against mark meadows after meadows failed to show up today for his deposition. the prospect of meadows following in the footsteps of trump ally steve bannon and facing criminal concept charges for defying a congressional subpoena, a subpoena from the body in which he once served comes after meadows actually struck a deal to testify and after he produced lots and lots of rich documents for the
Investigation. the committee would not confirm to nbc news how many subpoenas for phone records have gone out in total but here s what congressman aguilar had to say about this aspect of their investigation. this is just finding out who individuals were talking to, additional touring that january 5th and january th time frame. we have been able to gather critical information to our investigation, to our legislative efforts. this was this was systemic. this was what was? this was an opportunity for these individuals to disrupt the election and to come up with an alternate slate of electors. that was what they were focused on. january 6th select committee getting their hands on the goods, holding obstructionists accountable, even as their investigation roars forward. it s where we start this our are yamiche alcindor, she will soon be washington correspondent for nbc news and msnbc. welcome, my friend. she will continue to moderate washington week on pbs. also joining us, tim