Mark Meadows tonight!!

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is meeting now to consider a resolution to hold Mark Meadows, former chief of staff in the rump White House, in contempt of Congress. Meadows is the latest official to face the possibility of such a referral from the panel.

Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said that Meadows left the committee with "no choice but to advance contempt proceedings" after he stopped cooperating with the panel.

The committee approved a criminal contempt report against rump ally Steve Bannon in October after he refused to comply with a subpoena deadline. The committee was ready to move forward with holding former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark in contempt but is giving him another chance to testify as he says he plans to plead the Fifth.

On Sunday, the committee released a report which outlined new details about Meadows' actions before and during Jan. 6, as well as his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

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