regarding a 38-page power point briefing titled election fraud, foreign interference and options for 6 jan that was to be provided on the hill, and among others, a january 5th, 2021, e-mail about having the national guard on stand by. chairman thompson also details text messages that the committee received from mark meadows, including a november 6th, 2020, text message with a member of congress apparently about appointing alternate electors in certain states as part of a plan that the member acknowledged would be highly controversial and to which mr. meadows apparently said i love it. and early january 2021 text
including an email from november 7th, 2020, discussing the appointment of alternate slates of electors as part of a direct and collateral attack after the election, and an e-mail dated january 5th, 2021, the day before the attack on the capitol, regarding a 38-page power point briefing titled election fraud, foreign interference and options for the 6th of january that was to be provided quote on the hill, and also among others, an email dated january 5th about having the national guard on standby. in addition to those documents oh, wait, there s more chairman thompson also describes, quote, the text messages you did produce to the investigation, including a november 6th, 2020, text message exchange with a member of congress, apparently about appointing alternate electors in certain states as part of a plan that the member of congress
committee that they find useful for their investigation. in a letter to mark meadows attorney from the chair of the investigation, congressman bennie thompson today, he writes this, quote, despite your broad claims of privilege, mr. meadows has produced documents that you agree are relevant, and not protected by privilege, including an e-mail from november 7th, 2020, discussing the appointment of alternate slalt slates of electors as part of a direct and collateral attack after the election, and an e-mail dated january 5th, 2021, the day before the attack on the capitol, regarding a 38-page power point briefing titled election fraud, foreign interference and options for the 6th of january that was to be provided quote on the hill, and also among others, an e-mail dated january 5th about having the national guard on stand by. in addition to those documents, oh, wait, there s more. chairman thompson also describes
6 th committee room and saying deal with this. here is one more distraction to deal with. his executive privilege claim has so many problems. we re talking about executive privilege invoked by a former president and been blabbing about in his book and a topic meadows turned over documents on and communications that don t have to do with any legitimate policy discussion but rather with an attempt to steal an election. the lawsuit is doomed to fail. the question is the committee going to be able to play through it and keep their eye on the ball? you say this break down and cooperation is predictable but that s after meadows turned over an exchange with an unnamed member of congress where meadows writes i love it in a discussion about appointing alternate electors in certain states and a january 5th, 2021 email with a 38-page power point briefing titled election foreign interference and options for 6 january to be provided on the
okay. but the other point is they re concerned about demand, specifically what the omicron variant is going to do to the economy and to the travel industry, so that s something we have to keep an eye on. of course these are just forecasts and i think at the end of the day, so much depends, whether it s the jobs market or energy prices or inflation, so much depends on omicron, and what happens next in the pandemic. all right. matt egan, thank you. thanks, guys. now to capitol hill, the january 6th committee says it is moving forward to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress after he ducked a scheduled deposition today. before he stopped cooperating, meadows turned over key information according to the committee. that includes a november 7th, 2020, e-mail, discussing the appointment of alternative slates of electors. if you don t like what the first ones say, just find new ones. a january 5th e-mail regarding a 38-page power point briefing entitled election fraud, foreign