Forward with contempt and if the Justice Department follows through with charges, mark meadows would become the first former Chief Of Staff to face prosecution since h. R. Of the nixon administration. The problem for meadows in this Contempt Proceeding is he snitched on his team before he clammed up. He has turned over roughly 9,000 pages of documents that he himself claimed were not privileged but hes now refusing to answer questions about those very documents in defiance of a congressional subpoena. Here is how chairman Bennie Thompson put it before the vote. When you produce records, you are expected to come in and answer questions about those records and because not even mr. Meadows was asserting any Privilege Claim over these records, there is no possible justification for whole sale refusing to answer questions about them. If youre making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, youre making excuses to hide the truth from the American People about what happened on jan
Crowd. Plus new reporting on unnamed lawmakers working with the white house. Why a judge tossed trumps lawsuit to keep his taxes away from congress. And a closer look at the ongoing Human Victims of the big lie. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Right now as we speak the House Of Representatives are preparing to vote on Holding Donald trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows in contempt of congress, a body in which he once served, for refusing to comply with subpoena from the January 6th Committee. The debate on this resolution started this afternoon around 4 15. There was a bit of a holdup by republicans over accusations that House Majority leader steny hoyer disparnged republican congressman jim banks. Once they sorted through all that they picked up the debate around 5 30 p. M. The debate is done now. Theres some other house business happening. Were waiting for them to vote on whether to refer mark meadows to the Department Of Justice for con
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lockdowns, people in the uk were banned from socialising or even attending funerals because of the pandemic. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. what can be done to help the children of ukraine? two thirds of them have been forced to flee from their homes. many have reportedly been subjected to physical abuse. some unaccompanied minors are being sent abroad by desperate parents, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. my guest is the ceo of the charity save the children international, inger ashing. what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around 2 million children have fled ukraine. 2.5 million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the war has been on them. i would say
inger ashing. what is her organisation doing? and is the war in ukraine taking the focus off other global hot spots, leaving millions of children in peril? inger ashing, welcome to hardtalk. around 2 million children have fled ukraine. two and a half million are internally displaced. that amounts collectively to two thirds of all the children in ukraine. just tell us what the impact of the war has been on them. i would say that every war is a war on children, and we see that in ukraine every day. as you said, two thirds of the child population have to flee their homes. about 600 have been killed or injured. and the trauma that children are witnessing every day is something that will be with them for decades unless we support them. so, just to paint the picture so, at save the children, we are supporting in a number of ways. and one of the things that we do is that we are providing what we call child friendly spaces. that is a place where children can come play, draw just