he s not a yule joule. he s not of that ilk of the law. what s going on? so, it is hard to understand exactly what their motivations are, but according to mr. terwilliger, their strategy was to participate as much as possible with the committee to avoid a contempt charge while still respecting the assertion of executive privilege by mark meadows s former boss, former president trump. so mark meadows is stuck, perhaps, between a rock and a hard place here. he doesn t want to offense or alienate his former boss who has said not to cooperate with the committee and has exerted executive privilege at the same time he had for weeks or even months been attempting to avoid potential concept of congress charges. he turned over documents including some information they found very useful.