The chief of staff for the White House listens to a question from a member of the media outside of the White House.
The House is expected to vote on Monday to hold former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff MarkMeadows in contempt of Congress.
The vote is scheduled for 7 pm. The third of Trump's associates to face the threat of criminal charges stemming from the Capitol attack will be made by the news station.
Since leaving office, Trump has continued to spread the false claims of a rigged 2020 election that spurred many of his followers to violently break into the building.
The bipartisan, nine-member panel is set to vote on a 51-page report that lays out the case for the House to hold Meadows in contempt for ignoring a subpoena to hand over a slew of records and sit for a deposition. The House could vote to send a contempt resolution to the Department of Justice.
On the eve of the vote, the report sheds new light on the thousands of documents that Meadows had provided to investigators before he reversed course and filed a lawsuit to invalidate two of their subpoenas.
The documents describe the attack and the efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election of Biden.
They include:
The National Guard would be present on January 6 to protect pro Trump people.
The Republican state legislators are alleged to be planning to send alternate slates of electors to Congress. One of the messages was responded to byMeadows. He asked if there was a team on it.
The acting leadership of the Department of Justice was sent claims about election fraud.
The organizers of the Jan. 6 rally outside the White House were texting advice to one another. Please.
The doctrine of executive privilege allows for some White House communications to be kept private.
The former president cited claims of privilege as the reason for directing multiple former aides to not comply with the committee's subpoenas.
Trump filed a civil lawsuit to stop the committee from receiving the White House records after Biden waives executive privilege.
A federal district court judge and a panel of three appeals court judges have rejected Trump's argument that his claims should be above the president's judgement. The Supreme Court is expected to overturn the appellate court ruling.
On Monday morning, a lawyer for Meadows sent a letter to the chairman of the select committee arguing that a contempt referral would be contrary to law. The invocation of privilege was made in good faith, and that referring a former senior presidential aide for contempt would do great damage to the institution of the Presidency, according to the letter.
The chair of the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is Bennie Thompson.
The House had already voted to hold former White House senior advisor Steve Bannon in contempt for his own noncompliance with a subpoena. A federal grand jury charged the man with contempt.
The man has pleaded not guilty. He faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine of up to $100,000 if convicted. A judge set a tentative start date for the trial.
Last week, the select committee voted to move forward with contempt proceedings against Jeffrey Clark, despite the investigators giving him a time extension to comply with the probe.
The lawsuit asks the court to throw out the subpoenas that the panel had issued to him and his former cell phone carrier.
His argument is based on Trump instructing him not to comply with the subpoena. The lawsuit argues that Meadows has been put in a difficult position.
It was filed a day before Trump lost his appeal.
The committee has rejected the argument. The report says that the contempt recommendation is not based on good-faith disagreements over privilege assertions.
Mr.Meadows has failed to comply and warrants contempt findings because he has refused to answer questions about non-privileged information and has not appeared to provide testimony.
The report says that Trump has not made any claims about his involvement in the probe. They note that Biden is not using privilege to prevent Meadows from complying.
After months of negotiations, an agreement had been reached forMeadows to give certain records and give a deposition. He has handed over approximately 9000 pages of records with no claims of privilege attached.
On the day before his deposition, he told the committee he wouldn't attend even to answer questions about the documents that he agrees are relevant and non-privileged.
On the day of the release of the book, that reversal occurred.
Three days before the September debate with Biden, Trump tested positive for the coronaviruses. The White House shared a subsequent test result that came back negative, but did not reveal the positive test at the time.
During the debate, Trump denied having Covid. He was hospitalized after the debate.
