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mark noble added a third from the penalty spot before bowen played the perfect pass for nikola vlasic have to get our standards back. our performances are still not close to where they should be, but hopefully we can get ready and be the good teams and get better in the second half. west ham have gone above spurs, who were held to a 1—1 draw by ten—man southampton at st mary's. james ward prowse tends to get his goals from set pieces, but this one came in open play to give southampton the lead. harry kane equalised with a penalty, awarded for a foul by mohamed salisu, who was sent off. spurs dominated the second half and had two goals disallowed, so it finished all square. norwich remain bottom of the premier league after they were beaten 3—0 at crystal palace. odsonne edouard had given palace the lead from a penalty, before two further goals before half time from jean—philippe mateta and jeffrey schlupp gave them a comfortable win. and there has been even more disruption to the festive football schedule. everton's home premier league game with newcastle has been postponed because of

mark noble added a third from the penalty spot before bowen played the perfect pass for nikola vlasic southampton the lead. harry kane equalised with a penalty awarded for a foul by mohamed salisu, who was sent off. spurs dominated the second half and had two goals disallowed, so it finished all square. norwich remain bottom of the premier league after they were beaten 3—0 at crystal palace. odsonne edouard had given palace the lead from a penalty before two further goals before half—time from jean—philippe mateta and jeffrey schlupp gave them a comfortable win. it sends crystal palace tonight. chelsea defender ben chilwell could miss the rest of the season as he undergoes knee surgery this week. the england left—back suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage during chelsea's champions league win againstjuventus last month. the club had initially opted for the defender to begin rehabilitation work in the hope he could return without surgery. england captainjoe root has called their ashes defeat "gut—wrenching", while some of those looking on have described it as "embarrassing". their

mark noble added a third from the penalty spot before bowen played the perfect pass for nikola vlasice held to a 1—all draw by ten man southampton at st mary�*s. james ward prowse tends to get his goals from set pieces but this one came in open play to give southampton the lead. harry kane equalised with a penalty awarded for a foul by mohamed salisu who was sent off. spurs dominated the second half and had two goals disallowed, so it finished all square. it is not easy to play after only 44 hours. for sure, we felt a bit of fatigue and may be our decision wasn�*t so right. but i think that at the end of the game, we could win, we didn�*t do this, and we are to be disappointed. crystal palace�*s second win in four games has taken them into the top ten, a place the team they beat can only dream of. odsonne edouard had given palace the lead against norwich from a penalty, before two further goals before half time from jean—philippe mateta and jeffrey schlupp gave them a comfortable win. 3—nil it finished, leaving norwich bottom of the league. and there has been even more disruption to t

mark meadows. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles is following the debate and joining us from capitol hill. ryan, we know a lot more about meadows' communications on january 6th as the house is debating his fate right now. >> reporter: that's exactly right, wolf. by taking this step of referring mark meadows for criminal contempt of congress, it is likely that the january 6th select committee is putting themselves in a position where they may not learn much more about what mark meadows knows about the days and weeks leading up to january 6th. as evidenced by the drips and drabs they've already shared, the documents meadows has handed over to the committee tells us a lot about what he knows. a dramatic day on capitol hill as the house prepares to vote on holding a former white house chief of staff in contempt. >> this isn't about any sort of privilege or immunity. this is about mr. meadows refusing to comply with a subpoena to discuss the records he, himself, turned over. now he's hiding behind excuses. you're making excuses as part of a coverup. >> reporter: the january 6th select committee

>> we begin with breaking news on mark meadows lawsuit against january 6th select committee and the house speaker nancy pelosi. let's go to our correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, tell our viewers what are you learning. >> reporter: this is an incredible turn of events from mark meadows, who a few days ago says he was able to cooperate. things have changed. he skipped a deposition this morning. now he's filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to help the court prevent him from handing over documents and information to the select summit. so far committee members say they're prepared to fight that filing. they also say they're ready to move ahead with criminal contempt against meadows as soon as next week. tonight the january 6th select committee is done negotiating with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> obviously, we hope mr. meadows would continue to work with the committee, but, obviously, based on his lawyer's letter today and his plan to not show up for the deposition that it's a different dynamic. >> reporter: chairman benny thompson announcing the committee has no choice but to move ahead with criminal contempt of congress against

mark meadows. what did we learn, ryan nobles? >> yeah, it seems like every day we're getting new bits of information out of this trove of documents that meadows shared with the committee voluntarily. he handed these over and said they weren't privileged pieces of information. that's part of what the committee wants to ask about. there were two that stood out to me today during the presentation on the house floor. the first and i think you've played it but i want to read it again. i heard jeff clashlrk is gettin put in on monday. this is a text from an unknown person to mark meadows ocn january 3rd. that's amazing and will make patriots happy and i'm proud you're at the tip of a spear and i can call you a friend. he's a former department of justice official who is currently under subpoena and has actually already been referred for criminal contempt by the select committee because he too is defiant but he's considered to be one of the key architects inside the department of justice who is attempting to convince the leadership of th

mark meadows to delay this process. congressman adam schiff responding by saying it certainly strikes me as another fruitless effort to i am imme -- imspeed the work of the committee. ryan nobles, capitol hill. >> other members of the january 6 committee are weighing in on mark meadows and his refusal to testify. l let's listen. >> he sent this information over obviously. he did not believe it was prince georged -- privileged or he wouldn't have sent it. that's not the way things work. you assert privilege on a question by question basis and he is just trying to escape telling the truth to the committee. >> republican lawmaker liz cheney who serves as the committee's vice chair reacted to meadows lawsuit saying, quote, we look forward to litigating that. she went on to saying, quote, the committee has received a number of extremely unprivileged documents from mr. p meadows. he included text messages from his private cell phone and private email account. he's produced these documents. they are not privileged. and stay with cnn. we'll have much more on this story throughout the day. >>> the u.s. senate has voted to overturn president joe biden's vaccine and testing mandate on la

mark: why do you think there is this move, almost obsession, with vaccinating the little kids? >> i really don't understand the mind set of a government official who think that nobletion is a valid approach to governance and public health. mark: media don't seem to press them, biden administration is pushing this. there will be parents who push back. they will create more conflict. that is the biden administration, we now have mandates where people are told, you either get a vaccine or lose your job. even if you had the virus and you have antibodies, they tell people you are fired. cops, nurses, doctors, firefighters employees all over the nation, does the science support that? no. the science -- there is more than 90 studies so natural immunity is as strong or stronger and better and longer lasting than that vaccine. in is no question that people who already have covid have no need to be vaccinated for the public health. could they benefit from the vaccination? perhaps a little. but hazards of those getting vaccines higher than average person getting the vaccine there so no real reason to be vaccinated and certainly no reason for a mandate. the fact we face such

the panel will meet and vote on a criminal contempt of congress referral for mark meadows for refusing to testify. ryan noblesws and others did in the hours leading up to the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: for the third time the january 6th select committee is preparing to refer a potential witness for criminal contempt. tonight the committee will meet to vote on seeking a contempt of congress charge against former white house chief of staff mark meadows who initially showed an interesting cooperating before backing away. f. you believe he had a privilege to assert, he could have shown up. he could have said with respect to the question, here's why i believe it's privileged. of course, he didn't do any of that. >> reporter: the committee wants to ask meadows about the 6,000 documents he's already provided them. in their contempt report they write, mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send an alternate slate of electors to congress, a plan which one member of congress acknowledged was highly controvers

mark meadows is cooperating with the house select committee. according to its chairman, meadows has turned over thousands of emails and is scheduled for a deposition next week. more now from cnn's ryan nobles reporter: christine and laura, this is a significant development. mark meadows at one point had been stonewalling the committee not giving them what they had been looking for. the fact he has agreed on some level to cooperate with them gives the committee an opportunity to move this conversation forward. and we're told that meadows has already handed over some 6,000 emails to the committee, and the deposition is scheduled for next week. the question is what will come out of that conversation. at this point meadows' attorney saying that he's willing to answer questions from the committee, but that he's also still concerned about executive privilege, and executive privilege may mean something different from meadows and his attorneys that it may mean for the committee. so there is still the opportunity that when he comes in for this interview, that they do go meet at some sort of an impasse where they are no longer able to move forward and this entire process is stalled. regardless, at t

ryan nobles is out front on capitol hill. so mark short is there.ang mike pence. mike pence is there. he is the one who shows mike pence the tweet where trump is talking about mike pence's lack of courage as all this is happening outside the door. so he was there at that moment and -- and he is -- he's been a confidant, chief of staff for the vice president not just on january 6th. the entire run-up here. >> there is no doubt about that, erin. mark short is one of, if not mike pence's most closest ally. someone that has the -- the full trust of mike pence and was one of his closest advisers not just on january 6th but in the days leading up to it. so, you would have to imagine that short was the conduit to mike pence with any communication from the white house and beyond as to the threat level against pence and exactly what was happening inside the -- inside the capitol as the rioters were descending on this building. but you point out that period of time leading up to january 6th. and -- and that may really be what the january 6th select committee

an attorney for mark meadows says he won't be cooperating with congressional investigators after all. meadows is supposed to face the committee in about six hours' time. cnn's ryan nobles as why he is now dodging the deposition. >> reporter: the january 6 select committee is no longer expecting mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff, to appear for a scheduled deposition on wednesday. meadows sending the committee a letter on tuesday morning where he expresses reservations about the tentative agreement the committee worked out between him and his attorney for him to come forward and provide information about what he knows about the january 6 riots. now, meadows had expressed a willingness to cooperate with the committee, and had evenhanded over thousands of documents with information related to the january 6 riots. but the deposition was key. this in-person interview was something the committee was counting on. and in that letter mark meadows expresses concerns about what may or may not be covered under executive privilege and what questions he may be asked as a result of it, and he also expressed concern about the committee requesting phone records from no

ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. >>> well, as ryan reported there, the january 6 committee is revealing more of the text messages mark meadows handed over before stonewalling. one text reveals a conversation to overthrow the presidential election results. here's house democrat jamie raskin with this evidence. >> on november 4th, a member of this body wrote to meadows, here's an aggressive strategy. one day after the election, why can't the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania and other republican-controlled statehouses declare this is b.s. where conflicts in election not called that night, and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the scotus. >> plead 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 they need to, quote, end this call, and emphasizing, quote, i don't think this will be a productive -- will be productive much longer, end quote. we need to talk to mr. meadows about that. >> well, she's referring there, of course, to a phone call in 2020 when then president don

nobles, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >>> the committee's argument against mark meadows tonight is about building a case based on evidence, and as ryan just said, that includes the former chief of staff's own text messages. >> one text mr. meadows received said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol, breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? a fourth, there is an armed standoff at the house chamber door. and another from someone inside the capitol. we are all helpless. dozens of texts, including from trump administration officials urged immediate action by the president. quote, potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. >> mark meadows was flooded with texts like these that day. among those sending him urgent messages, my first guest tonight. alyssa farrow was trump's director. starting tonight she is also a cnn commentator. her texts with mark meadows are central to this investigation. alyssa, thank you f

mark meadows, who has stopped cooperating ahead of a scheduled deposition tomorrow. cnn has learned that meadows is among more than 100 people whose phone records have been subpoenaed by the committee. ryan nobles story for us. ryan, is the committee essen essentially issues an ultimatum right now? >> that's exactly what they're doing and it comes after an about face after mark meadows, who was close to donald trump, had signalled last week he was prepared to rcooperate. that was before this morning when he sent the committee a letter saying he's not prepared to take that step any longer and now the committee is responding. they're saying quote, tomorrow's deposition, which was scheduled at mr. meadows' request, will go forward as planned. if he refuses to appear, the select committee will be left with no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which mr. meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution. so this is the committee making it clear that there are no longer negotiating with mark meadows. that they feel as though they've offered him a number of concessions to bring him to the table to hand over the information they're looking for and meadows fee

mark meadows that lawsuit against the select committee investigating january 6th. let's discuss now, cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles is here. cnn senior legal analyst lauren coats joins us as well. autothor of a book i have read, "just pursuit: a black prosecutor's fight for fairness" i suggest you pick it. up is it in preorder now? >> it is, absolutely. thank you, don. >> we'll discuss all of that later. let's get to the news at hand now. walk us through what this lawsuit with mark meadows is about. what is he arguing here? >> essentially what he wants to do, don, is having a court tell the january 6th select committee that he is not needed to follow through on their subpoena request, and he has a number of legal theories that he kind of throws at the wall here to try and compel the court to do so. among them claiming that the january 6th select committee doesn't have authority because of its partisan makeup and a number of other things. he also makes passing reference to executive privilege claims from the former president donald trump, but at the end of the day suggests that the committee just doesn't have the l

just six days before the one-year mark of the january 6th insurrection, the house investigation into the deadly riot is heating up. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles has the latest. good evening. what are the committee's priorities as they head into the new year? >> poppy, it sounds like the committee will take a much more public footing here as the new year begins. and start to present some of the findings that they had. and then talk a lot more in a public way about exactly what they hope to accomplish. that includes hear,s that could happen as soon as this late winter. they also plan on providing somewhat of an interim report in the summer before issuing their final report this fall. the committee members i've spoken to say one of their big goals is to create a narrative so that people understand exactly what happened, not just on january 6th but in the months and weeks leading up to the insurrection so that americans understand exactly just how close we came to democracy being toppled on its head. and what we can do to prevent it in the future. >> as they do this, the committee is facing several legal battles. some big ones. maybe even one in

nobles is live on capitol hill. you have obtained a copy of former white house chief of staff mark meadows' new book where he talks about book from mark meadows not st set to come out until next week. it's 300 pages of his experience as the chief of staff to donald trump. but he only details about three or four pages to the events of january 6th. and he makes a number of claims about the events of that day that will be of special interest to the january 6th select committee. first of all, he claims there was no coordinated effort by the white house or the campaign to try and encourage people to storm the capitol on that day. in fact, he writes, the idea to gather on january 6th was organic and it wasn't until the president said that he wanted to address the various groups that the plans came together. before the final word came down from congress that the election was settled he wanted to make sure that all those people he had met over his four years, the ones who had shown up to every rally, listened to his speeches and had written him letters about their frustrations with the establishment would have been more chance

nobles is out front. and we're also, ryan, learning who the committee believes was behind one of the text messages sent to marke. >> that's right. this is exclusive reporting from jake tapper and jamie gangel and what is so interesting is the source of this text message that was part of the presentation that the select committee put on in the terms of their criminal contempt referral of mark meadows. now originally, they made it seem ooze though it was a member of the house who sent this text message. it turns out, it was rick perry, the former governor of texas and the former energy secretary in the trump administration. at least the select committee believes it was sent from rick perry's phone. this was the text message as a refresher. he said, quote, here is an aggressive strategy. why can't the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, and other r-controlled statehouses declare this is bs? conflicts in elections not called that night and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the scotus. now, perry denies that he wrote this text. but they can't explain why it came from a phone number

>> we learned mark short, one of former vice president pence's closest advisers, his former chief of staff is cooperating with the january 6th committee along with my colleagues ryan nobles and mike warren, we have learned that the committee subpoenaed short a few weeks ago. but that unlike some other trump officials, he's not fighting the subpoena. and, anderson, short's cooperation is a significant development because he is, as you say, a firsthand witness to so many critical events. he was with mike pence at the capitol on january 6th. he was also in the oval office on january 4th when former-president trump tried to convince pence not to certify the election results. so, um, all of these things our sources say add up to one thing. short's assistance signals a greater openness among pence's inner circle with one source telling me the committee is getting, quote, significant cooperation with team pence. just for context, short is considered one of pence's most loyal aides. it is hard to imagine that mark short would cooperate with the committee without pence's blessing. >> so, i mean, this is kind of a new divide in how the former president's team is dealing with the c

nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so what you have learned that is in there. >> reporter: it is interesting, because we know that markments during that short period of time where he was cooperating with the committee. and that is one of the reasons that the committee is so insistent that he get in front of them and answer questions as part of a deposition. because they want to learn more about some of this communication. and when meadows resisted, that opportunity to sit down and talk, that is when they began these contempt proceedings. and what they've been doing is just putting out little bits of details from the communications that give us some insight into meadow's role in what happened on january 6. like this, for instance. according to the contempt report that they'll vote on tonight, mr. meadows received tex messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage republican legislators in certain states to send alternate slates of electors to congress, a plan which one member of congress acknowledged was highly controversial to which meadows responded, i love it. now, as we've said before, that mail that y

noble fellow and well deserved the praises that have been lavished upon him. the memorial back itself says he was peculiarly fit for a leader. true manliness was his marked characteristic, general, truthful, liberal in his judgment of others, forgetful of self, genial of disposition and frank in his intercourse with everyone. he made many friends and his familiarity never detracted from the respect which the true dignity of his character inspired. he shrank from all necessary display, modest almost to bashfulness. he was very determined in the support of any opinions he had form and in the execution of any work he had undertaken. the memorial book itself is an interesting artifact printed in cambridge, massachusetts, by welch bigelow and company as a keepsake with letters compiled by stevenson's father, joshua thomas stevenson esquire. his signature appears in the front space of the copy. the person to whom the instrings is addressed james h. blake jr. may have been lieutenant james h. blake jr. of the 44th massachusetts, company i, who was from boston. stevenson and blake had served together. the book begins with a short biography about the general. the

mark meadows after the u.s. house of house of representatives voted to refer meadows for failing to testify before the january 6th committee. cnn's ryan nobleshey get closer and closer, it seems, to donald trump. >> reporter: the fate of former white house chief of staff mark meadows now in the hands of the department of justice. >> the resolution is adopted. >> reporter: speaker nancy pelosi signing the resolution late tuesday night after the house voted to hold meadows in contempt. the department of justice received the report at noon and will now decide whether to prosecute. the committee chairman bennie thompson believes they built a strong case. >> this isn't about any sort of privilege or immunity. this is about mr. meadows refusing to comply with the subpoena to discuss the records he himself turned over. >> reporter: as does president joe biden, though he says he hasn't spoken to anyone that the doj is independent of the white house. >> it seems to me, it's worthy of being held in contempt. >> reporter: it's a case built on documents provided voluntarily by meadows. among them his text messages including some from fellow lawmakers. >

mark meadows in contempt. >> okay. >> of congress. >> so what you heard from sheila jackson lee, jason crow, appreciate it. i want to get to my colleague on the hill now. ryan nobles. our congressional correspondent. it official the house is voting to hold a member in criminal contempt. give us the latest on this. >> that's exactly right, don. this played out just as we predicted at 10:00. the house voted to report a criminal contempt referral for the former white house chief of staff and a former member of congress mark meadows. the final vote was 222-208. two republicans voted yes, liz cheney and kinzinger. every other republican voted no against allowing the congress to enforce the subpoena laws, which gives the congress the authority to call someone before them to answer questions if it's a matter that they believe has a legislative purpose and the committee believes their work in investigating january 6th is a key legislative purpose that will ultimately result in changes to the way congress does business and then to that end, what other information they find out about the attacks that happened on january 6th. this isn't a surprise, don. the big question is h

children, and the entire family my heartfelt condolences and thank them for mark's service to nasa, the american people, and noble endeavor of space exploration. with that, mr. speaker, i would like to yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. beyer: mr. speaker, thank you. i concur with my friend, dr. babin, we are very fortunate to be led by eddie bernice johnson, our chair, and frank lucas, our ranking members. we actually work together in a good way. i'd like to thank dr. babin and mr. carter and mrs. kim for co-sponsoring this and helping put this together. a wonderful space subcommittee staff who took the time to put the title of this bill the nasa enhanced used leasing extension act of 2021. i yield back the balance of my time. i encourage all our colleagues to vote for this good bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass bill h.r. 5746 as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of t

mark meadows, also, deciding he'll no longer cooperate with the committee. setting the stage for contempt proceedings perhaps as early as tomorrow. it's a lot. we start with cnn's ryan nobles. so, ryan, what about these phone records? what are they? >> so this is an attempt by the committee to paint a picture of exactly who was talking to whom on the days leading up to and on january 6th. this is the outgrowth of the preservation requests that the committee had put in place to many telecom companies over the summer. this is now them formally asking for these phone records. now, these aren't the messages themselves or the phone calls themselves. instead, it is just a record of a number that called another number, at what time that call toolk place, and for how long. it will allow the committee to piece together conversations that took place in and around that time, and then begin to ask questions to these witnesses about exactly what these conversations were about. will it be able to paint a picture of whether or not there was any level of coordination between these different groups that were a part of the riots that took place here on january 6th as they try and get to the

nobles on capitol hill, a big development. >> reporter: no doubt about that, john. based on this letter, it seems clear that the select committee has had enough with mark meadows and are now ready to move ahead with a criminal contempt referral. this is a pretty abrupt aboutface from meadows, especially when you consider the thousands of pages of documents that he provided to the committee at the stage where it seemed as though he was willing to cooperate. some of that information revealing quite a bit about meadows' role in the lead up to january 6th, including this -- this is what the letter reads, november 7th, 2020, email discussing the appointment of an alternate slate of electors as part of a, quote, direct and collateral attack after the election. a january 5th, 2021, email regarding a 38-page powerpoint briefing entitled "election fraud, foreign interference, and options for 6 jan." that was to be provided by, quote, on "the hill" and a january 5, 2021, email about having the national guard on standby. so it seems pretty clear by this document dump that meadows provided that he was at least willing to engage with the committee in areas that they were very inte

like mark meadows, steve bannon, and others, they can get it in other places and still get to the bottom of what happened here on january 6th. victor and alisyn? >> okay. really interesting, ryan nobles, thank you for the update. here now to discuss all the implications, we have cnn's senior legal analyst, elie honig and david chalian and former republican congressman joe walsh, the host of the "white flag" podcast. david, give us the significance. historical as well as today, current day, of what we're seeing on capitol hill with mark meadows right now. >> i mean, let's remember, first and foremost, he's a former member of the body. i mean, he is a former member of congress who his colleagues are going to vote today, a majority of them, to pass on and refer to the justice department that he is in contempt of the very body in which he served. that's just a stunning, as you note, alisyn, historical moment. but let's be clear about what was revealed last night as liz cheney was reading those texts. i think what got exposed above all else is the total and complete fraud that donald trump, his allies in the white house, like mark meadows and others, and his allies in the media on fox new

nobles is following this. ryan, give us the latest. >> reporter: well, victor, and alisyn, this shows just how difficult the interactions have become between the january 6th select committee and markthe two sides have been going back and forth since meadows was subpoenaed just a few months ago in an attempt to get him to come forward and provide information about what he knew about the events leading up to and on january 6th. and it appeared last week as though there had been some sort of a breakthrough, that meadows was willing to come sit in front of the committee and answer questions even though he was still concerned about some of those questions being still, the committee felt confident they could get meadows in a room and begin the process of asking him those questions, but that process was derailed this morning when meadows' attorney sent the committee a letter saug he was no longer willing to cooperate and no longer willing to sit down and talk with them. that's forced the committee into this position where they're going to schedule this deposition. they'll thereby waiting for meadows. if he doesn't show up they're willing to take that criminal contempt referral. they've d