president trump declaring a national emergency to stop that from happening, and the washington post is reporting that waldron personally spoke to meadows about this powerpoint. now, where did we first learn about the existence of this powerpoint presentation? it was actually in a letter that bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th select panel, sent to mark meadows lawyer, telling him that the panel was going to vote to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress for failing to comply with his subpoena, for failing to appear for his deposition. we know that mark meadows was complying with the committee, at least a few times, exchanging emails, exchanging documents, including this powerpoint presentation. you see a part of it on your screen there. well, mark meadows lawyer, of course, saying he received this presentation in an email. now we re learning that could be from phil waldron who was, by the way, a part of the arizona audits. he presented to the senate there. they ult
the january 6th select panel. there were murmurs over the last week. cnn s ryan nobles and i are both hearing from members and aides and sources saying this is getting to a point where we re going to potentially push leadership on this. now, kevin mccarthy and gop leaders actually don t have much of an appetite to go this route for a number of reasons. one of them being that speaker nancy pelosi could just reappoint them to those committees any way. the right flank is seen as a very important constituency for kevin mccarthy who wants to be speaker. at the end of the day he may feel he has no choice to go this route. so it s something we re keeping an eye on. the members come back today. they ve been out of town. we ll keep an eye on it for sure. they have plum committee assignments. house arm services. these are big committee assignments for them. but at the end of the day, i talked to cheney and kinzinger about it. we re not worried about this