Jan. 6 panel votes to hold Meadows in contempt, sending a criminal referral to House

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The Monday night vote was months in the making. Meadows had initially cooperated with the panel and turned over thousands of emails and text messages, but he reversed course last week, saying a day before he was due to appear for a deposition that he would no longer be cooperating with the probe.

Ahead of the vote, the panel's ranking Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, read a litany of text messages she said Meadows received during the Jan. 6 siege, urging him to get then-President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to leave the Capitol.

Cheney said the messages that Meadows turned over came from lawmakers, Fox News hosts including Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, and even Donald Trump Jr.

"He's got to condemn this s***," Trump Jr. wrote to Meadows, according to Cheney. "The Capitol Police tweet is not enough."