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scott mcfarlane is with us. he has focused the last 11 months on the january 6 attacks. welcome back to washington journal. guest: good morning. great to be here. host: what was the significance of the criminal contempt citation against a former white house, mark meadows? guest: i feel like a chapter in a story that is already pretty long. 700 criminal defendants, but as we go through this, the largest criminal investigation in u.s. history, there is an overarching question going on answered. whose idea was it to storm the capital? did somebody fund this? what skin in the game did any officials have? really trying to answer that larger question going on answered. we see this movement, this growing investigation and mark meadows, reporting for contempt of congress is the most striking step that they have taken so far. host: the citation gets turned over to the justice department. what happens next? guest: they will take time to consider it. the process typically tape -- typically takes weeks, if not months. it took them a few weeks before announcing criminal charges. if t

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scott mcfarlane for washington. and inez vivinder joins us. ali, let's get to the big question about cooperation with the january 6th committee. there's big news on that front and it's not news about bannon cooperating. >> reporter: well, it's certainly not news about bannon cooperating. but also the word "cooperation" here not necessarily means it's yielding what the committee wants. that's what they're trying to figure out, this man marc short who you see on the screen, he's cooperating with the january 6th committee, our sources tell us, but they are at this point trying to figure out what kind of information he can give them. what one source said to us he is cooperating and they added, so far, steph. >> aneesh, remind us who marc short is in terms of cooperating, in the world loyal fall? for months we've been talking about mike pence where he was hunted down and he's not saying anything. where is marc short in all of this? >> marc short is not a traditional trump loyalist. he used to work for the koch brothers. he was legislative director

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i want to bring in nbc's ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbcn washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of congress pleading with meadows for help. they were inside the capitol as it was being attacked, yet they didn't vote for it. what am i missing? >> and steph, congresswoman liz cheney last night during this vote read out more text messages, she said, from republican lawmakers who are still in this house body. these are some of the messages, and you mentioned it, they sound desperate. listen to what they said. >> mark, one member said. he needs to stop this now. in all caps, tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. >> steph, we've heard the trickle of these text messages that meadows turned over to the committee over the course of the las