Meadows said he believes the courts will be forced to weigh in on the dispute over executive privilege.
Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he will no longer cooperate with the House select committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. CNN first reported that Meadows wouldn’t work with the committee. Meadows confirmed his stance in an interview with the streaming news network Real America’s Voice, saying the committee intended to ask about items that he considers protected by executive privilege, despite his efforts to reach an accommodation to share non-privileged information. “In addition we found that in spite of our cooperation in sharing documents with them, they had issued, unbeknownst to us and without even a courtesy call, issued a subpoena to a third-party carrier trying to get information,” Meadows said. “At this point, we feel like it’s best that we just continue to honor the executive privilege and it looks like the courts are going to have to weigh in on this.” Meadows’ decision comes one week after its chairman, Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson, said the former congressman was and had turned over reams of documents. Thompson said last week Meadows was expected to appear for an initial deposition “soon.
