I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, December 14th.

It's a day when Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff on January 6th, has now been referred for

a criminal contempt of Congress

charge for defying a subpoena to say what he knew about coordination between the rioters and

President Trump or his aides. Text messages from Meadows that were made public yesterday.

Have you heard this? Include ones from three big Fox news hosts asking Mark Meadows to get President Trump to call the rioters off.

For example, Laura Engram wrote, quote, Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home.

This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy, unquote.

The New York Times notes, however, that on her show that night, Ingram said no such thing

and instead spread the false rumor that left wing Antifa people were the rioters.

She said, quote, earlier today, the Capitol was under siege by people who can only be described

as antithetical to the Maga movement, unquote.

Wow. So if Chris Cuomo just got fired from his

cable show for advising his brother on his scandals while recusing himself from the topic on the

air, what should happen to Laura Ingram for advising Trump on his and then lying on her show

to cover up for him? So that's one story.

Over in the Senate, with the Christmas recess about to start, Democrats are still trying to get

President Biden's human infrastructure bill, child care, elder care, pre-K, climate protections,

and other things past their needed holdout.

Joe Manchin.

Reportedly, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been trying to convince Manchin to support the paid family leave provision in the bill,

which she's been very involved in crafting.

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