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SAMANTHA BEE: Welcome back.
It's the holiday season, and while many of us
are googling cheap gifts to give our coworkers for the White
elephant exchange.
Actual white elephants, like former White House Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows, are running
scared like they're being chased by vicious inbred trophy
Hunters.
REPORTER 1: The house has voted to hold Mark Meadows
in contempt of Congress.
These charges are now headed to the Justice Department, which
will decide whether to prosecute the former Trump
White House Chief of Staff.
This vote happened after Meadows shared thousands of documents,
and texts with the committee, then declined to testify.
REPORTER 2: There was a lot that he gave the committee,
but at this point he's pulled out entirely
and said he's invoking the Fifth Amendment.
SAMANTHA BEE: Meadows bailed right before his deposition
to the January 6 committee, claiming executive privilege
forbids him to speak.
Even though he just released a book in which
he writes about the insurrection, and
his conversations with Trump.
This is a perfect example of white privilege.
Can you imagine if OJ wrote his book before he got off?
I can imagine it, and I do a lot.
By writing a book, Meadows may have inadvertently
waived his executive privilege.
But I'm sure it was worth it for a blockbuster
that's burning up the charts as Amazon's
520th best selling book.
Only a few 100 slots behind actual real classics
like, "The Big Book of Farty Facts."
Before Meadows ghosted the committee,
he gave them more than 9,000 pages of records.
This included texts, and emails, where he encouraged
investigations of voter fraud.
A phrase that's basically the Republican safe word.
Among Mark Meadows texts, Fox News
hosts like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham,
begging him to get Trump to call off the insurrection.
There were even texts from Don jr. Wow,
I didn't know you could send someone a text
message from a Gameboy Advance.
Mark Meadows also turned over something especially scary.
And like so many of life's problems,
it came via Microsoft.
REPORTER 3: There's also new reporting
on the PowerPoint presentation that Meadows
handed over to the committee.
It contained a strategy for how to overturn the 2020 election.
HUGO LOWELL: This 36 slide PowerPoint
had this recommendation that Trump should declare
a national security emergency, in order
to use that as a justification to return
himself to the Oval Office.
SAMANTHA BEE: Meadows PowerPoint presentation, which made it
into the White House, was filled with extreme plans
to overturn the election.
And included a conspiracy theory that China, and Venezuela,
had obtained control over the voting infrastructure
in a majority of states.
In other words, the kind of emails that shouldn't even
make it past a Gmail spam filter,
let alone to the chief of staff.
Meadows lawyer claims he merely received the PowerPoint by
email, and did nothing with it.
Which is the World War Three version of claiming you just
didn't see that invite to your sister
in law's third baby shower.
And while it's nice that Meadows likely didn't pass it
on to the president, it's still terrifying
that Trump supporters were able to soft pitch a coup
with a Microsoft Office document.
PowerPoint shouldn't be the cause
of America's downfall, that's the responsibility of facetune.
The Meadows files reveal the depths of his involvement
in the insurrection.
Including a January 5th email saying the National Guard
would protect pro-trump people, and texts in which
he and a member of Congress were already discussing a coup just
days after the election.
REPORTER 4: Their November 6, 2020
text exchange with a member of Congress, apparently about
appointing alternate electors in certain states,
as part of a plan that the member acknowledged
would be quote, highly controversial.
To which Meadows apparently said, quote, I love it.
Now at one level, it's sort of one ups Don Jr's, if you
would-- "if it's what you say it is, I love it" to the Russians.
SAMANTHA BEE: What is it with Trump people writing,
I love it, about nefarious plots?
Guys, never reply that you love it to anything.
Unless it's Randy Newman texting you that he loves LA.
Mark Meadows can hide, stall, and even
sue Nancy Pelosi all he wants.
But it doesn't change the fact that he's up to his Silver
tufted nipples in this plot.
And at this point it's clear, there's only one way
to really get through to him.
So Mark, if you're watching, I have
very important message for you.
[CLICK] You [CLICK] are [CLICK] going [CLICK] to [CLICK] jail
[CLICK] lol ol o l.
We'll be right back.
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