Pete Aguilar: “I thank the vice chair for yielding. Last Tuesday, December 7, the select committee received a letter from Mr. Meadows'…”

“I thank the vice chair for yielding. Last Tuesday, December 7, the select committee received a letter from Mr. Meadows' lawyer telling us that his client's appearance for a deposition had become, and I quote, ``untenable''. Something else happened last Tuesday. Mr. Meadows' book, ``The Chief's Chief,'' hit bookstores. This is a witness who is refusing to comply with the law and answer our questions, in part because the former President has instructed him to do so, he says. He says that as chief of staff he couldn't possibly disclose the conversations with the former President. But look at his book, and you get more information about his confidential conversations with the former President than our committee did. This is from a section dealing with the January 6 rally at the Ellipse. ``When he got off stage, President Trump let me know that he had been speaking metaphorically about the walk to the Capitol. He knew as well as anyone that we couldn't organize a trip like that on such short notice.'' That part is interesting because the select committee has a lot of questions about what the President said and did on January 6. We have a lot of questions about how protests that day escalated into a riot. And Mark Meadows says he can't discuss these details with us. But apparently, he can put them in his book. We have also learned from those very documents Mr.…”