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Apr 8 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
SCOOP: Donald Trump Jr texted Mark Meadows on Nov. 5, 2020 -- before election was called -- pushing ideas to ensure 2nd term for his father, per records given to 1/6 committee.

"We have multiple paths We control them all"
w/ @ryanobles & @AnnieGrayerCNN cnn.com/2022/04/08/pol…
Trump Jr endorses plan to get "Trump electors" & allies in Congress overturning Biden's win on Jan. 6.

“We either have a vote WE control and WE win OR it gets kicked to Congress on 6 January 2021,” he wrote to Meadows.

"POTUS must 2nd term now"

cnn.com/2022/04/08/pol…
In the text, Trump Jr pushes for the firing of FBI director Chris Wray & replacing him w/ loyalist Richard Grenell.

He also calls for then-Attorney General Bill Barr to name a special prosecutor to investigate the "Biden crime family."

cnn.com/2022/04/08/pol…
Reminder … my colleagues @jaketapper & @jamiegangel exclusively reported that Rick Perry, former Trump Energy Secretary/ Texas Governor, was pushing similar plan in text to Meadows just one day before Trump Jr

cnn.com/2021/12/17/pol…

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Apr 7
New: DOJ is blocking the National Archives from sharing details w/ Congress on 15 boxes of records that Trump took to Mar-a-Lago -- the clearest indication yet that the matter is under investigation.

Story w/ @evanperez cnn.com/2022/04/07/pol…
"I write today because the Department of Justice is preventing NARA from cooperating with the Committee's request, which is interfering with the Committee's investigation," @RepMaloney wrote in a letter to AG Merrick Garland.

DOJ is "obstructing" the committee probe, she adds.
The committee "does not wish to interfere in any manner with any potential or ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice," @RepMaloney adds in her letter to Garland.

cnn.com/2022/04/07/pol…
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Mar 29
Pretty clear message to AG Merrick Garland tonight from Jan. 6 committee: Do something.
The Mark Meadows contempt referral is still just hanging out there ... some members of the Jan. 6 committee spoke directly to DOJ tonight as they recommended two more former Trump aides for criminal contempt of Congress charges.
A few excerpts ...

“This committee is doing its job. The Dept. of Justice needs to do theirs." -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren.

"I will echo what my colleagues have already said, but more bluntly, Attorney General Garland, do your job - so that we can do ours.” -- Rep. Elaine Luria.
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Mar 28
Big news here ...
"The illegality of the plan was obvious," the judge wrote.

"Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," the opinion adds.
The judge specifies that one document the select committee can receive appears to be aiding Trump & Eastman's alleged conspiracy: a draft memo written for Rudy Giuliani, recommending VP Pence reject some states' electors on January 6.

More via @kpolantz cnn.com/2022/03/28/pol…
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Dec 15, 2021
News: The House has voted 222-208 to find former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress.
 
Two Republicans who sit on the Jan 6th Committee, Liz Cheney & Adam Kinzinger, voted w/ Democrats in voting to refer Meadows to DOJ for criminal contempt.
More here w/ major assist from my colleagues @ryanobles, @kristin__wilson & @mkraju.

cnn.com/2021/12/14/pol…
But real talk, this puts AG Garland in an interesting spot.
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Dec 7, 2021
And just like that, former WH chief of staff Mark Meadows will no longer cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating January 6, according to a letter from his attorney to the panel, which was obtained by CNN. w/ @GloriaBorger

Story to come.
Meadows' about-face is due in part to learning over the weekend that the Jan. 6 committee had "issued wide ranging subpoenas for information from a third party communications provider," the letter from his attorney notes.

cnn.com/2021/12/07/pol…
You can read the full letter from Meadows' attorney here: cnn.com/2021/12/07/pol…
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Sep 28, 2021
Gen. McKenzie again says he is responsible for drone strike that killed 10 civilians but seems to defend decision to fire, citing similar intel for other successful strikes.

Still a lot of questions about what transpired before strike, including civilian casualty estimates.
"It happened in my area of responsibility, so I'm the responsible officer for that strike,” McKenzie said during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

McKenzie said he was under “no pressure” and “no one in my chain of command below me was under any pressure to take that strike.”
McKenzie & Milley said they predict the relationship between Pakistan & the Taliban will become more complicated now that the latter is in control of Afghanistan.

McKenzie also said there are ongoing talks w/ Pakistan over the use of vital air corridor to access Afghanistan.
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