1) Jan. 6 committee playing hardball with Meadows, following his change of heart about testifying.
2) Whoa. Lock him up?
For those who could not read the highlighted section, this is what it says:
"We also need to hear from him about voluminous official records stored in his personal phone and email accounts, which were required to be turned over to the National Archives in accordance with the Presidential Records Act."
There was a time Republicans lost their minds about government documents being on non-government equipment/servers....
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NEW -- Donald Trump knowingly put at risk the lives of Gold Star families, wealthy donors at a Minnesota fundraiser, then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden, White House staff, the crews of Air Force One, and others.
Trump's attempt to keep his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection a secret is being heard right now by a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.
Trump's lawyers keep bringing up GSA v Nixon, which was superseded by the Presidential Records Act.
Trump's lawyers are still up, getting harshly grilled about why Trump's insistence that his records be kept secret should overrule Biden's determination that the national interest demands that they be released.
Yet to be seen how they treat the DOJ and House lawyers.
NEW -- RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel today -- one year and 11 days after the 2020 presidential race was called for Joe Biden, refused to say that he had legitimately won the election, and instead insisted there were "problems" that needed to be looked into.
She also refused to say whether the reporting in Jon Karl's book, that Trump threatened to leave the Republican to create his own, was accurate.
She also refused to say whether the party and the RNC in particular has a responsibility to make sure their next nominee does not try to overthrow the republic, as Trump did after he lost.
BTW, if Trump had been hoping for a judge likely to go along with his lies about Jan. 6 -- that it was really ANTIFA, that it was peaceful, that those arrested are being persecuted -- he must be disappointed.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has earned a reputation for seeing the Jan. 6 attack as a serious threat against the United States and has, at times, given harsher sentences to insurrectionists than those recommended by prosecutors.
“There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government, beyond sitting at home,” she said in one case.
“Isn’t the best person to determine executive privilege the executive?” Judge Tanya Chutkan asked Trump lawyer Justin Clark.
Clark answered: “Not the incumbent executive.”
Trump’s lawyers had argued that a 1974 Supreme Court case regarding Richard Nixon’s attempt to have White House recordings he had made destroyed after he resigned from office gave Trump the right to assert privilege even if Biden refused to do so.