When you produce records, you are expected to come in and answer questions about those records.

And because not even Mr. Meadows was asserting any privileged claim over these records,

there is no possible justification for wholesale refusing to answer questions about them.

Mr. Meadows received numerous text messages which he has produced without any privileged claim,

imploring that Mr. Trump take the specific action we all know his duty required. Indeed,

some of those text messages, Madam Speaker, came from members in the chamber right now.

The chair and vice chair of the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack make the case for why the Department of Justice should charge Mark Meadows with criminal contempt of Congress.

The question is, could an indictment be on the way?

Plus, President Biden set to visit Kentucky in the wake of those devastating tornadoes. The question is, how will he console the survivors

and the families of those who perished? And the World Health Organization says the Omicron

variant is now spreading faster than any strain before it. As more companies

revive restrictions, the question is, will more states do the same? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early.

The show that's got plenty to ask, one of the top spokespeople at the White House, straight ahead.

I'm Jonathan Lemire on this Wednesday, December 15th.

Let's start with the news.

There's plenty of it.

The House is now referring former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the Justice Department

for a

potential criminal charge for defying a subpoena to testify before the committee investigating the

January 6th attack on the Capitol. Last night's vote was, unsurprisingly, mostly along party lines,

with the two Republicans serving on the select committee, Vice Chair Liz Cheney and Congressman

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