Monday’s vote by the House to hold Mark Meadows, former White House Chief of Staff to Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress will be the focus of the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 intrusion at the Capitol.

The polls will take place at 7:05 p.m. ET will see Meadows become the third Trump associate to be facing criminal charges in connection with the investigation into the deadly attack that saw hundreds of Trump supporters storm the Capitol forcing Congress to flee for safety.

Trump, impeached for inciting an uprising but cleared by Republicans in Senate, has spread false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged”. This spurred many of his followers and supporters to enter the building.

This bipartisan and nine-member panel will be voting a 51-page reportThis explains the reasons for Meadows being held in contempt by the House for refusing to submit a list of records to be given to the Department of Justice and to sit for depositions. A contempt resolution could be sent to the Department of Justice by the House for criminal prosecution.

The reportThis document was made public on the day of the vote by the panel and sheds new light upon the thousands of documents Meadows gave investigators just prior to his decision to reverse course. filed a lawsuit to invalidate two of their subpoenas.

According to the report of the committee, the documents show Meadows talking about the Jan. 6 attack as well as the attempts by Trump’s allies to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.

They include:

• Meadows stated in an email, that the National Guard will be there on January 6th to “protect Trump People” and that additional members would be on standby.
• Meadows was allegedly receiving emails about plans to have Republican state legislators send “alternate slates of electors” to Congress. Meadows replied to one of these messages, “I love that.” He replied with another, “Have an team on it.”
• Meadows made claims concerning election fraud and sent them to the acting head of the Department of Justice.
• Meadows sent advice to an organizer for the Jan. 6, rally outside of the White House. After that organizer said, “[t]It’s getting too complicated. I am desperate for direction. Please.”

Trump claimed that the House investigators shouldn’t have access to many materials because of executive privilege. This doctrine allows some communications from the White House to be kept secret.

Meadows and several other former aides were also directed not to submit to the subpoenas by the former president.

Biden however waived executive privilege on many White House records. Trump filed a civil suit to prevent the committee receiving the documents from the National Archives.

A federal judge in a district court and an administrator of a panel of three appeals court judges have rejected Trump’s argumentHis claims in dispute regarding executive privilege should be overruled by the judgment of the incumbent president. Trump will likely ask the Supreme Court for an overturning of the decision by the appellate court.

A lawyer representing Meadows wrote Monday morning a letter to Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), arguing that a contempt referral in this case “would be contrary to law, manifestly unjust, unwise, and unfair.”It claims that Meadows invoked privilege in good faith, and that calling a former top presidential aide contemptuous would do “great harm to the institution” among other reasons.

Already, the House had voted to indict former White House senior adviser Steve Bannon for not complying with a Jan. 6 subpoena. Bannon was then charged with two counts each of contempt by Congress.

Bannon has pleaded innocent. Bannon could face a sentence of imprisonment for being convicted. maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine of up to $100,000 for each count. Bannon’s trial was set for a July 18th start by a federal judge.

The select committee voted last week to advance contempt proceedings for ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey ClarkHe agreed, but the investigators gave him an extension of time to complete the investigation.

Meadows is suing the court for the invalidation of subpoenas issued by the panel to him and Verizon. He calls them “overly wide and unduly burdensome”.

Trump instructed Meadows not to comply, inciting executive privilege claims. This is the basis of his argument. The lawsuit claims Meadows has been “forced into the difficult decision of whether to choose between conflicting privilege claims.”

The appeal was denied by Trump on the same day that the request for the White House records had been filed.

Meadows’ argument has been rejected by the select panel. The contempt report states that Meadows’ failure to comply and the contempt recommendation are not based upon good-faith disagreements about privilege assertions.

“Rather, Mr. Meadows has failed to comply and warrants contempt findings because he has wholly refused to appear to provide any testimony and refused to answer questions regarding even clearly non-privileged information — information that he himself has identified as non-privileged through his own document production.”

According to the report, Trump has not claimed any privilege regarding Meadows’ involvement in their investigation. Biden, who is the current president, does not invoke privilege to prevent Meadows’ compliance.

Following months of negotiation, Meadows was allowed to exchange certain records with the Jan.6 probe and appeared for a deposition. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the committee, stated that Meadows has given over nearly 9,000 pages without any claims of privilege.

Meadows informed the committee that Meadows would not be attending the deposition “even to address questions about documents that he believes are relevant and nonprivileged that he just produced,” as the report states.

This was on Meadows’ release day, when Meadows’ book documents his many experiences at Trump’s White House including interactions with Trump.

The book revealed that Trump in 2020 had tested positive for the coronavirusHe did this three days before the September debate with Biden. However, the White House didn’t disclose this positive result at that time. Instead, it shared an additional pre-debate testing result which came back negative.

Trump denies having Covid during or prior to the debate. The virus was diagnosed in his lungs a few days following the debate.