The House should hold MarkMeadows in contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena, according to a report by the select committee.
The third Trump ally to be threatened with criminal charges for their involvement in the investigation of the deadly attack is the man who refused to sit for a deposition.
The bipartisan, nine-member panel voted unanimously in support of a report that recommends that the House find Meadows in contempt and refer him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
The 51-page contempt report shows that Meadows refused to comply with the subpoena, which required him to produce a number of records to the committee.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, flanked by Reps. Lofgren and Cheney, spoke during the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Committee Full Committee hearing.
The committee said that before reversing course and refusing to cooperate, Meadows had handed over thousands of records.
Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, said before the vote that when the records raise questions, you have to answer them.
When it was time for him to testify, he changed his mind and told us to pound sand. Thompson said that he didn't show up.
Liz Cheney said in the meeting that the records produced by the White House show that they were aware of the riot at the Capitol.
She and Adam Schiff read out panicked messages that pro-Trump Fox News hosts, congressional lawmakers and even the president's own children had sent to the show's host.
The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This hurts all of us. Cheney said that he was destroying his legacy.
Donald Trump Jr., the former president's oldest son, sent a text to Meadows multiple times.
In one message, Trump Jr. wrote, "We need an Oval Office address." Cheney said that he wrote in another that he had to condemn the s--- asap.
Instead of appearing for his deposition last week, he sued the committee and Pelosi, asking the court to invalidate two of the panel's subpoenas.
The legal complaint leans on Trump's instructions for him not to comply with the subpoena, putting him in a difficult position of choosing between conflicting privilege claims put forward by Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden.
The National Archives was sued by Trump to stop them from sending White House records to the committee. The records are protected by executive privilege. Biden did not waive privilege over those documents.
A federal district court judge and a panel of three federal appeals court judges have rejected Trump's privilege claims.
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.
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