non-privileged, they are texts that mr. meadows has turned over and they are evidence of president trump s supreme dereliction of duty for 187 minutes and mr. meadows testimony will bear on another fundamental question before this committee and that is whether donald j. trump through action or inaction corruptly sought to obstruct or impede congress official proceeding to count electoral votes. what she s saying there corruptly sought to obstruct or impede an official proceeding, she now repeated that a few times. she s referencing a criminal statute. section 1512 don, yes. this is a statute that the justice department has used or attempted to use with a number of the actual insurrectionists.
for free on the xfinity app. our thanks. your rewards. so here is our breaking news tonight. the house set to vote any minute on mark meadows for defying the on voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for defying a subpoena. kim is a professor of law at the baltimore school of law and author of how to read the constitution and why. good evening. so happy to have you on. liz cheney spoke on the house floor. i want to play some of what she said and then we ll talk. all of these texts are non-privileged, they are texts that mr. meadows has turned over and they are evidence of
accommodation could be reached by which he might be able to answer under agreed-upon appropriate circumstances a limited set of questions that would further validate legislative purpose within the select committee? you know, the subpoena required a deposition. we have, as a committee, sought to depose him pursuant to that. we can negotiate around some other issues. but he has to sit for the deposition. again, that deposition could be limited in any way before you sit down? isn t that the purpose of the negotiation to say, okay, there s non-privileged matters and as you suggested in your testimony and he clearly thought there were areas that were non-privileged that were appropriate for the committee to be asking about. if he felt areas that were outside, he could put them forth
which he might be able to answer a limited set of questions that would further validate the scope of questions within the select committee? the subpoena required a deposition and we have as a committee sought to depose him pursuant to that. now, we can negotiate around some other issues, but he has to sit for the deposition. and again, can that deposition be limited in any way before you sit down? isn t that the purpose of the negotiation, to say, okay, there s non-privileged matters that certainly and as you suggested in your testimony and he clearly thought there were issues that were non-privileged, that were appropriate for the committee to be asking about. if he felt that there were areas that would be outside, he could put them forward at that
to get a criminal referral for contempt of congress either, so he really has been trying to do that dance. ultimately though his giving over of all of those documents as non-privileged is a real problem for him because there s absolutely no legal legitimate reason why he can refuse to come in and speak about those, and that s really the basis now for this referral for contempt of congress to doj. right, and we expect that vote to happen again any minute now, potentially within the hour or next couple of hours but today this, afternoon, and, scott, i want to highlight one text from unnamed gop lawmaker. i quote here yesterday was a terrible day. we tried everything we could, and our objection to the six states, i m sorry nothing worked. scott, this lawmaker seemed to be saying it s a terrible day because the effort to overturn the election failed, not because of the deadly violence at the capitol. how messed up is that? yeah.