Zoe Lofgren: “Mark Meadows, a former colleague for many of us, left Congress in 2020 to serve as chief of staff to then- President…”

“Mark Meadows, a former colleague for many of us, left Congress in 2020 to serve as chief of staff to then- President Donald Trump. Sadly and shockingly, Mr. Meadows has admitted he played both an official and unofficial role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election. He has also admitted that he has responsive and nonprivileged documents and communications relating to January 6. In fact, he already sent some of those materials to our select committee charged with preventing a future attack on our Capitol. Now, the select committee needs to speak with him about the full plot leading up to January 6. For example, it has been reported that the White House was directing the Department of Justice to investigate outrageous and really crazy conspiracy theories to benefit Mr. Trump politically, as well as to orchestrate the dissemination of election misinformation. We need to talk to Mr. Meadows about this. We have learned that Mr. Meadows made a surprise visit to a State-run audit in Georgia, which led to the now-infamous call in which Mr. Trump improperly asked the Georgia Secretary of State to find votes. We need to talk to Mr. Meadows about that. We also need to ask him about text messages which he provided to our committee that show an official in Georgia texting Mr.…”