we reached out to phil waldren, we haven't heard back yet, but let's listen to what rep cicilline saide are a lot of people who argue what happened on january 6th is some sort of organic event where people got carried away. what the select committee is revealing in the early part of its work is there was an awful lot of planning, financing, strategizing, and that it involved people at the highest levels of government. >> so the committee is actually going to hold a vote to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress tomorrow because they want to know more about this powerpoint, about these meetings. but look, another big takeaway in the last couple days was on friday and that new batch of subpoenas issued by the committee because it was the first time we see a clear possible link between president trump and the stop the steal rally organizers themselves. that's because they outline in two of the aides they subpoenaed that they actually may have met with the president two days before january 6th to fill him in sort of on the details of the rallies, including who was speaking there. so the

the january 6th investigation tonight sent a new subpoena to a man named phil waldren. we might remember this video clip. we discussed him in detail at the top of last night's show. he is the man that claimed credit for compiling the absolutely bananas, here's how to do a coup 38-page powerpoint presentation that somehow founding its way to trump's white house counsel and ultimately found its way to the january 6th investigation. that document said the election results should be thrown out and falsified, reversed, by a simple process. trump should declare a national security emergency. the national guard should be federalized, and they should be sent out to seize ballots all over the country. this is the guy who said the mastermind of the election fraud was the brother of the vice president of venezuela. okay. also china. also there was a server in germany and some u.v. light and rare earth minerals that need to be -- incidentally he breathlessly reported that none of the vote totals for michigan made sense. none of the vote totals matched up with the registered voters

the house committee has now issued a subpoena to phil waldren. who is that? he's a retired army colonel who has submitted a powerpoint plan, yep, a powerpoint plan, on how to overturn the 2020 election. the city obtained that document from former chief of staff mark meadows who insisted he had nothing to do with it. adam kinzinger says the panel is now focused on what happened in the days before the capitol riot. >> about a year ago now, and i can't believe it's been a year, it also seems like it's been ten years ago and yesterday at the same time, but there was this kind of fever pitch to not accept the fact that a legitimate election had happened. and that's why the committee is so important, wolf. it's not just about the day of january 6. that's an important point, but it's about what is the wrath that led up to that? expect to see more frivolous lawsuits to try to slow this down. >>> roger stone is supposed to appear before the committee tomorrow, but he has already indicated he intends to plead the fifth which means it will just be a media and press oppo

they also want to hear from phil waldren, a man behind a powerpoint filled with plns to overturn the election results that the committee said mark meadows was in receipt of. committee members say they've issued him a subpoena because they want to know more about the document. >> who did you talk to? when did you talk to them? why? where did you get this information from? >> reporter: the committee furiously wrapping up a hectic week of work. they referred meadows for possible criminal contempt of congress charges. keith kellogg, then-national security adviser to the vice president and ken klukowski. while most republicans continue to cast doubt on the committee, one very prominent republican seems open to what they are discovering. >> well, i'm like you. i read the reports every day, and it will be interesting to see what they conclude. >> while roger stone showed up for his deposition today but likely did not say very much, another right wing conspiracy theorist seems to be taking a bit of a different tact. alex jones who is scheduled to hold a deposition with the committee tomorrow

i have a copy of the letter just sent to phil waldren who is a kook and i'm sure facing some liabilityu claim to visited the white house on multiple occasions after the election, spoken to mark meadows maybe eight to 10 times and briefed several members of congress on election fraud theories and as you said, the letter gets into the powerpoint and so on, but what congress is doing here is really trying to get information not about waldren per se, but about waldren contact with trump, and meadows and meadows with congress and if any of those individuals could violate that criminal statute earlier, obstruction of official proceeding and indeed, in this letter to waldren today repeats language from that statute, so this is rapidly becoming a criminal investigation, and a criminal investigation looking not just at some low level kooks but people in positions of power. >> mike shmidt, i mean low level kook should be used, i guess, loosely. someone who gets into the white house, quote, maybe eight to 10 times is a low level kook punching way above their weight. i worked near the white house,

phil told "washington post" he visited the white house on multiple occasions after the election and spoke to chief of staff meadows about eight or ten times. waldreneveral members of congress the day before the capitol attack and provided them with the document. joining us now for more on this nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali who i'm told, sadly, her fantasy team did not make the playoffs. tough loss. for my guys, anyway, anything can happen in the post-season. mark meadows has been refusing to cooperate with the january 6th investigation committee. where does that stand right now in terms of timing and referral and potential consequences he could face and tell us more about the powerpoint presentation and the impact it could have. >> yeah, jon, all of this movement is coming this week now. the contempt referral, we had long expected to see it. it looked like the committee was going to get some cooperation from meadows. that's how they got all of these thousands of documents and text messages and how we start to see this form taking shape of what meadows knew on january 6th and around that date, as well. and the committee laid out la