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Mark Meadows, the White House Chief of Staff for former President Donald Trump, was cooperating

with the January 6th Committee,

and then he wasn't.

His reasoning has to do with the committee seeking outside

information about Meadows communications

with the President.

The law in this area is not precisely clear.

Cato's Julian Sanchez explains.

Mark Meadows was chief of staff for Donald Trump

during his administration and now after the January 6th attack and Donald Trump and the administration, I guess their

role in that attack, Mark Meadows has been cooperating with congressional requests for information and then he stopped and then on an interview program he said

one of the reasons that he was stopping was that Congress was seeking from

carriers or subpoena sending subpoenas to carriers for information my assumption was that he was referring to cell phone

...