that is for the department of justice to decide, as i mentioned before. we are a legislative committee, coming up with facts for the american people. and a legislative recommendations. but certainly, the advice he gave was completely false. and it was persistent. it went beyond writing a memo. it was advocacy for turning overturning the election results, which is pretty serious stuff. you are still awaiting action from the justice department on the criminal referral on mark meadows for contempt of congress. it is now over 40 days. it took, i believe, 22 days for the justice department to indict steve bannon for the same thing for the same reasons. do you have any understanding of what the delay is about? well, they don t report to us, but we have reason to believe that they are looking at this carefully and seriously.
gave was completely false. and it was persistent. it went beyond writing a memo. it was advocacy for turning overturning the election results, which is pretty serious stuff. you are still awaiting action from the justice department on the criminal referral on mark meadows for contempt of congress. it is now over 40 days. it took, i believe, 22 days for the justice department to indict steve bannon for the same thing for the same reasons. do you have any understanding of what the delay is about? well, they don t report to us, but we have reason to believe that they are looking at this carefully and seriously. obviously, mr. meadows did not comply with his obligation to come in. you can t just say i m not coming in. you have a privilege. you have to assert it, question by question and then we can make a determination. on the other hand, he was the
see what happened. carl, several members of the january 6th committee have expressed open frustration on twitter and statements that the department of justice hasn t taken more action as a result of the committee s work thus far. do you think the doj would, will ever prosecute mark meadows for contempt of congress or seek to question the former president in some sort of criminal investigation? or perhaps prosecute the former president of the united states. usually, or very often, prosecutors wait until they have a full record of investigations before they indict, before sometimes they impanel a grand jury. what we know is that the committee s information thus far, the justice department is aware of it. the committee s information is voluminous. it shows exactly up to what is known now, how the president of the united states undermined his office, undermined the constitution, and presumably, the justice department is looking at every aspect of this, including how to go about
who of course are members of the select committee. we expect all democrats to support it and outside of those two republicans, saying voting yes, most republicans are expected to vote no, anderson. that won t matter. it will be enough for the resolution to pass. so, if assuming the resolution passes, then what happens? so now, the next step is that it gets referred almost immediately to the department of justice. and the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia will be responsible for taking a look at the report that the committee has put together. and then, deciding whether or not the department of justice will prosecute mark meadows for contempt of congress. that means there will be a trial if it they take that step. and it could lead to jail time for mark meadows if he refuses to comply with the select committee and their desire to for him to answer questions. now, this is not a slam dunk that the department of justice could take this step. there is a bit more complica
happens? so now, the next step is that it gets referred almost immediately to the department of justice. and the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia will be responsible for taking a look at the report that the committee has put together. and then, deciding whether or not the department of justice will prosecute mark meadows for contempt of congress. that means there will be a trial if it they take that step. and it could lead to jail time for mark meadows if he refuses to comply with the select committee and their desire to for him to answer questions. now, this is not a slam dunk that the department of justice could take this step. there is a bit more complicating factors to this claim that the select committee has about his defiance of their request. he was the white house chief of staff, so he does have some privilege claims. but the committee believes they are on firm ground primarily because he s handed over 6,000 documents that he s already deemed as not being covere