to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
republicans record was horrific. you can go back through my twitter feed. come on, republicans, speak up. speak out. he s bankrupting america. he s stealing from our children. do something. say something! i went to mark memeadows, had lunch with him when he was the head of the freedom caucus, like, buddy, stop all this insanity, and worry about first thing s first. like, you guys are bankrupting america. you re supposed to be the conservative group that stops this. but they wouldn t do it. donald trump, a guy who promised he d pay down the debt, is the guy who put us $8 trillion deeper in debt. we went more in debt in donald trump s four years stay with me. if there are republicans, stay with me, because you have to understand how this guy, this guy who is so damaging, not just to our constitution but to our
trump could be referred to the justice department for criminalo how they think all of this is going down? first and foremost, you know, people have been wanting to hear from pat cipollone since the beginning. this is a man whose name popped up a lot. for folks who don t know, the white house counsel is constantly in meetings with the president of the united states and others, constantly at the forefront of all of these conversations and issues. as we heard last week with cassidy hutchinson, talking about how pat cipollone was trying to get mark memeadows, t chief of staff, for example, to go with him to president trump, to get him to stop the folks from rioting in the capitol. he is someone they definitely want to talk to. when you talk to folks in the white house about pat cipollone or about the possibility of donald trump or the doj doing the criminal referral for donald trump, that is something that,
the union. the white house is not participating in the house s impeachment process, so the job of defending president trump is falling to his republican allies, perhaps none is closer to the president than congressman mark memeadows. and the congressman joins me now. congressman mark meadows, thank you very much for coming in. i appreciate it. you, of course, are from north carolina. you re one of the president s closest confidants in congress and in general. and i want to talk about the substance of the impeachment inquiry, really focus on that. the president asked a leader of a foreign country to investigate his political rival. so one simple committee to start. is that appropriate? well, one, he didn t do that. i don t agree with your premise. he talked about investigations. if you look at the transcript, i think he said, will you do us a favor, based on the united states going through a lot, talking about 2016 elections. and when you see that, dana, i think probably the bigges