Meadows Jan. 5 email indicated Guard on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,’ investigators say

A 51-page document was released Sunday by the select panel, which is set to vote on Monday to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress. The full House is expected to vote on Tuesday to hold Meadows in contempt.

The committee has described several messages that appear to suggest that members of Congress were asked to help connect Trump with state lawmakers after his defeat.

According to documents obtained by the Jan. 6 committee, the president wants to chat with them.

The messages describe contacts with members of Congress about Trump's efforts to recruit state lawmakers and encourage them to help overturn the election results. They asked him to issue a statement telling rioters to leave the Capitol as soon as possible.

The attorney did not respond to the request for comment.

The clearest insight into the conversations Trump had with his advisers in the chaotic months after his defeat is contained in the messages. Though he turned over thousands of text messages and emails, he refused to sit for a deposition to discuss them, claiming that he was barred by executive privilege. The agreement for him to come in for an interview had been reached, but it collapsed last week.

The committee held a closed-door deposition without him present and described the questions they would have asked him. The transcript of the closed session was appended to the panel's contempt report, describing the documents that were provided by Meadows.

We would have asked him about the text messages he received from a Senator and the communication he had with President Trump.

Concerns have been raised about the National Guard's readiness to defend Trump supporters. POLITICO reported in May that a Capitol Police leader encouraged his officers to focus on anti-Trump forces in the January 6 crowd.

The committee pointed out that many of the messages he shared already appeared to violate privilege by describing his own contacts with Trump. He revealed many of those contacts in his book.

The committee got a lot of messages from Meadows.

The media personality encouraged Trump to issue a statement asking those at the Capitol to leave.

A text was sent to one of the President's family members indicating that Mr.Meadows was pushing hard.

The Justice Department tried to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general.

The attorney general of Arizona is seeking contact information for a member of Congress in November 2020 to discuss election fraud.

Texts from the rally that preceded the Capitol attack.

The texts reflect Mr.Meadows skepticism about public statements regarding allegations of election fraud put forth by Sidney Powell and his skepticism about the validity of claims of tampering with voting machines.

Powell, who worked for Trump's campaign legal team before leading her own series of lawsuits intended to overturn the election results, was the most notable of the bunch. She met with Trump at the White House. Trump briefly considered appointing her a special counsel to investigate election fraud.