Zoe Lofgren

These subpoenas that are to individuals who appear to be very involved in the plot to overturn the election. We want to ask them for questions about that but it`s not the end of the inquiry.

The state of law is if you think you would incriminate yourself criminally and want to be protected by the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, you have to come into the committee and assert that right question by question.

Throughout our history, we have fought to advance justice and extend the right to vote, to ensure every American can freely and equally participate in our democracy. Chief Justice Earl Warren, in the Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims (1964)…

The intent was to prevent the person who was elected president from taking office and to install the loser that campaign as president.

What he said is complete bunk.

We'll do whatever we need to do, to get all of the facts.

But we're going to do what we need to do, to get all the information, not only to lay it out, for the American public, but to inform us, as to what legislative steps, we need to take, to prevent something like this, from being attempted…

Well, it is an amazing circumstance, to think of the President of the United States, who took an oath, to protect and defend the Constitution, just watching, this assault, on the peaceful transfer of power that's provided for in the…

I think would be important to listen to what Kevin McCarthy has to say. He is in fact indicated publicly that he has nothing to hide that he would be willing to talk further and I hope that he lives up to that.

we want to tell it from start to finish over a series of weeks where we can bring out the best witnesses in a way that makes sense.

We need also to ask him about text messages which he provided to our committee that show an official in Georgia texting Mr. Meadows during the Trump-Raffensperger call saying that they, quote, need to end this call, unquote, and…

I'm good. * * * *. Okay. Thank you. Accordingly, the record of this deposition of Mark Meadows, now at 10:18 a.m., is closed. [Whereupon, at 10:18 a.m., the deposition was concluded.] Additional correspondence between the Select Committee…

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…

It certainly appears and Mr. Meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the Capitol and on our democracy.

He has important information about those events, and he must follow the law and cooperate with this committee`s lawful requests, or face the consequences. And that`s why, much as we might personally like Mr. Meadows, we have to take this…

This committee`s job is to find out about that plot, the plot which led up to the events on January 6, and to propose legislative changes to prevent something like that from ever happening again.

It is shocking that we now have to face the fact that Mr. Meadows admits he played both an official and unofficial role in trying to undermine the results of the 2020 Presidential election.

There are very many text messages that we want to follow up with on him that clearly, him being related in a part of the plot to overturn the results of the election.

We came very close to overturning our democracy on January 6th. That's not acceptable to me or to the American people.

Mr. Meadows, sent all of these documents, he didn't claim any kind of privilege about them. You can't retroactively claim privilege.

This Committee's job is to find out about that plot, the plot which led up to the events on January 6th, and to propose legislative changes to prevent something like that from ever happening again.

We need to talk to Mark Meadows about that.

Well, he`s all wet when it comes -- legally. I mean, he sent us 2,000 text messages that obviously didn`t think were privileged or he wouldn`t have sent them to us.

So, next week, the committee will be meeting to consider referring Mr. Meadows for criminal contempt and we expect the House to take that up next week as well, and send it to the Department of Justice.

So, to think that somehow he doesn`t have to tell the committee about the things that he sent over is simply wrong.