众议院将于周二举行前总统马克·梅多斯的听证会唐纳德·特朗普他藐视国会，无视调查1月6日国会大厦骚乱的特别委员会对他证词的传票。

梅多斯是前众议院议员，他将是自1832年以来第一位被国会以藐视法庭罪定罪的前议员，也是第一位被判藐视法庭罪的议员。

投票将把此事提交给司法部，以决定是否对北卡罗来纳州共和党人提起诉讼。如果罪名成立，梅多斯可能面临最高一年的监禁和10万美元的罚款。

在周二晚上和当天早些时候的众议院规则委员会辩论中，1月6日特别委员会的成员发布了梅多斯移交给委员会的那部分记录的新短信。

“我听说杰夫·克拉克将在星期一被录用。太神奇了。加州民主党众议员亚当·希夫(Adam Schiff)在给梅多斯的一封短信中写道:“这将让很多爱国者感到高兴，我个人非常自豪，因为你处于风口浪尖，我可以称你为朋友。”

这些新消息进一步强调了梅多斯对国会调查的重要性，他是特朗普轨道上的关键人物，亲自参与了关于挑战选举结果的讨论，并在白宫西翼倡导选民欺诈调查。

“梅多斯的证词将影响本委员会面临的另一个关键问题:唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)是否通过作为或不作为，腐败地试图阻挠或阻碍国会清点选举人票的正式程序?”该委员会副主席、怀俄明州众议员利兹·切尼周二表示。

据加州民主党众议员皮特·阿吉拉尔(Pete Aguilar)称，1月3日，梅多斯告诉一名未透露姓名的国会议员，特朗普“认为立法机构有权，但副总统也有权”，他在众议院宣读了关于选举人票计数的信息。

11月4日，一名未透露姓名的国会议员给梅多斯发短信称，共和党领导的立法机构应该“只派自己的选举人到国会”，挑战关键州的官方结果，并允许最高法院决定如何授予选票和选举获胜者。

该小组的议员辩称，尽管梅多斯尊重特朗普所谓的行政特权主张，但他不当拒绝接受传票，以讨论他已经与国会分享的材料中提到的或他的新回忆录中提到的话题。

梅多斯向委员会移交了大约9000份来自个人电子邮件账户和一部手机的文件，包括共和党议员的紧急短信，恳求他让特朗普采取措施停止暴力。

但他随后改变了方向，拒绝在传票下出庭回答有关他提供的记录的问题。

在周一的委员会会议上，在成员们一致投票建议对梅多斯处以藐视法庭罪之前，切尼广泛引用了福克斯新闻频道主持人、共和党议员和前总统长子小唐纳德·特朗普在骚乱期间发送给梅多斯的短信。

切尼说，这些信息“毫无疑问”让白宫“确切知道”暴乱期间国会大厦发生了什么。

据切尼称，小特朗普在一条短信中告诉梅多斯，“他必须尽快谴责(骚乱)”，并表示特朗普关于国会大厦警察的推文“还不够。”

“我正在努力，”梅多斯回答。“我同意。”

“我们需要一个椭圆形办公室的地址，”小特朗普在后续信息中说。“他现在已经领先了。它走得太远了，已经失控了。”

“请让他上电视，”福克斯新闻频道主持人布莱恩·基尔米德写信给梅多斯。“摧毁你所完成的一切。”

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白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯在白宫外接受记者采访...

加州民主党众议员亚当·希夫(Adam Schiff)大声朗读了梅多斯在骚乱前后从未透露姓名的共和党议员那里收到的短信。

“昨天是可怕的一天，”一个人写道。“我们竭尽全力反对这6个州。很抱歉，没有任何效果。”

切尼再次引用了周二早上的短信。

一条信息写道:“山上真的很糟糕。

在另一封信中，一位未透露姓名的议员给梅多斯发短信:“现在就解决这个问题。”

切尼说:“我们需要就他给我们的没有任何特权要求的电子邮件和短信向他提问。

委员会主席本尼·汤普森小姐。，周二表示“300多人”中只有“三个人”没有与委员会合作。他说，华盛顿特区市长穆里尔·布瑟是计划与调查人员合作并谈话的人之一。

“我不想在这里寻求对这一藐视法庭案件的考虑。梅多斯先生做了七年多的同事。但这不能成为他行为的借口。如果有什么不同的话，他作为众议院议员的时间应该会让他更加意识到无视国会传票的潜在后果，”汤普森说。

共和党人在很大程度上为梅多斯辩护，并暗示委员会蔑视梅多斯的做法将浪费他们获得他合作的任何机会。

“今天，他们正在摧毁行政特权，”俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹在众议院说。"把一个好人关进监狱是一种投票。"

在周二的一份声明中，梅多斯的律师乔治·特威勒格说，他的当事人“从未停止过与专家组的合作”。“这种口是心非向他以及可能倾向于考虑尽可能真诚合作的其他人传递了什么信息?”

支持该委员会的民主党人和共和党人抨击了梅多斯的论点，指出他在1月6日左右出版了一本回忆录，详细描述了与特朗普的对话。

“这是一个拒绝遵守法律的证人，”加州民主党众议员皮特·阿吉拉尔说。“但看看他的书，你会得到比我们委员会更多的信息。”

特朗普的盟友史蒂夫·班农因拒绝委员会的传票而被控两项藐视国会罪，并表示不服罪。该审判定于2022年7月开始。

Full House expected to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress

The House on Tuesday is expected to hold Mark Meadows, former PresidentDonald Trump's chief of staff, in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for his testimony from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Meadows, a former House member, would be the first former lawmaker to be held in criminal contempt by Congress -- and the first lawmaker held in contempt -- since 1832.

The vote would refer the matter to the Justice Department to decide whether to bring charges against the North Carolina Republican. Meadows could face up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine if convicted.

During debate on the floor Tuesday evening, and earlier in the day, in the House Rules Committee, members of the Jan. 6 select committee released new text messages from the tranche of records Meadows had turned over to the committee.

"I heard Jeff Clark is getting put in on Monday. That's amazing. It will make a lot of patriots happy, and I'm personally so proud that you are at the tip of the spear, and I could call you a friend," a text to Meadows from an unknown number read, according to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

The new messages further underscored Meadows's importance to the congressional investigation, as a key figure in Trump's orbit who personally participated in discussions about challenging the election results and advocated for voter fraud investigations from his perch in the West Wing.

"Mr. Meadows's testimony will bear on another key question before this committee: Did Donald Trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede Congress's official proceeding to count electoral votes?" Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, the panel's vice-chair, said Tuesday.

On Jan. 3, Meadows told an unnamed member of Congress that Trump "thinks the legislatures have the power but that the Vp has power too," according to Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., who read the message about the counting of the electoral votes on the House floor.

On Nov. 4th, an unnamed member of Congress texted Meadows that Republican-led legislatures should "just send their own electors to Congress" to challenge the official results in key states, and allow the Supreme Court to determine how to award the votes and the winner of the election.

Lawmakers on the panel argued that Meadows, despite his deference to Trump's alleged claims of executive privilege, was improperly refusing to appear under subpoena to discuss topics referenced in the materials he already shared with Congress or mentioned in his new memoir.

Meadows turned over some 9,000 documents from personal email accounts and a cell phone to the committee, including urgent text messages from Republican lawmakers imploring him to get Trump to something to stop the violence.

But he then reversed course and refused to appear under subpoena to answer questions about the records he provided.

During Monday's committee meeting, before members voted unanimously to recommend Meadows be held in contempt, Cheney quoted extensively from text messages sent to Meadows during the riot from Fox News hosts, GOP lawmakers and Donald Trump Jr., the former president's eldest son.

Cheney said the messages left "no doubt" the White House "knew exactly what was happening" at the Capitol during the riot.

"He's got to condemn [the riot] ASAP," Trump Jr. told Meadows in a text message, according to Cheney, saying that Trump's tweet about Capitol Police "is not enough."

"I'm pushing it hard," Meadows replied. "I agree."

"We need an Oval Office address," Trump Jr. said in a follow up message. "He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand."

"Please get him on tv," Fox News host Brian Kilmeade wrote to Meadows. "Destroying everything you have accomplished."

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., read aloud from text messages Meadows received from unnamed GOP lawmakers before and after the riot.

"Yesterday was a terrible day," one wrote. "We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I'm sorry nothing worked."

Cheney quoted again from text messages Tuesday morning.

"It is really bad up here on the Hill," one message read.

In another, an unnamed lawmaker texted Meadows: "Fix this now."

"We need to question him about emails and texts he has given us without any claims of privilege," Cheney said.

Commitee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Tuesday that "only three people" of "over 300" have not cooperated with the committee. He shared that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is among those scheduled to cooperate and speak to investigators.

"I have no great desire to be here seeking consideration of this contempt referral. Mr. Meadows was a colleague for more than seven years. But that doesn't excuse his behavior. If anything, his time as a member of the House should make him more aware of the potential consequences of defying a congressional subpoena," Thompson said.

Republicans for the most part defended Meadows and suggested the committee's push to hold Meadows in contempt would squander any chance they had to secure his cooperation.

"Today they are destroying executive privilege," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on the House floor. "It is a vote to put a good man in prison."

In a statement Tuesday, Meadows attorney George Terwilliger said his client "never stopped cooperating" with the panel. "What message does that duplicity send to him as well as to others who might be inclined to consider cooperating in good faith to the extent possible?"

Democrats and Republicans aligned with the committee blasted Meadows' argument, pointing to the fact that he published a memoir detailing conversations with Trump around Jan. 6.

"This is a witness who is refusing to comply with the law," Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said. "But look at his book and you get more information than our committee did."

Trump ally Steve Bannon was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for rebuffing the committee's subpoenas and has pleaded not guilty. That trial is scheduled to begin in July 2022.