The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 will vote on holding former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt on Monday, with a full House vote likely on Tuesday. The committee has receipts, which it described Sunday night in a 51-page document drawing on thousands of text messages and thousands of pages of emails. Meadows is refusing to be deposed by the committee, claiming executive privilege—but both his release of those documents and many of the details in his recently released book seem to show that Meadows’ view of privilege comes and goes with what’s convenient for him. In one Jan. 5 email described by the select committee, Meadows assured someone—whose identity has not been revealed—that the National Guard would be standby on Jan. 6 to “protect pro Trump people.” Since the D.C. National Guard was not deployed for hours after the Capitol was attacked by a mob of pro-Trump people, with many people involved in the process pointing fingers at the Defense Department in the delay, that’s … very, very interesting. Former Defense Secretary Christopher Miller previously testified that on Jan. 3, Donald Trump personally told him to “do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights,” Politico notes.  Read more