Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did not show up his 10 a.m. deposition with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, prompting calls from the panel to have Congress hold him in contempt.
Former President Donald Trump has claimed executive privilege over White House phone logs, draft speeches and other documents sought by the House Committee investigating Jan. 6.
A lawyer representing Meadows said in a statement Friday morning that"it would be irresponsible for Mr. Meadows to prematurely resolve" the disputes with the committee"by voluntarily waiving privileges that are at the heart of those legal issues."A federal appeals court intervened on Thursday to temporarily block the National Archives from releasing Trump's White House records ahead of a Friday deadline, forcing a new timeline on the committee because of Nov.
Responding to the lawyers' statement from Thursday, a White House official said they would leave it up to the courts to resolve the dispute. "President Biden recognizes the importance of candid advice in the discharge of the President's constitutional responsibilities and believes that, in appropriate cases, executive privilege should be asserted to protect former senior White House staff from having to testify about conversations concerning the President's exercise of the duties of his office," said the letter from deputy White House counsel Jonathan Su to lawyer George Terwilliger.
"Contrary to decades of consistent bipartisan opinions from the Justice Department that senior aides cannot be compelled by Congress to give testimony, this is the first President to make no effort whatsoever to protect presidential communications from being the subject of compelled testimony," Terwilliger said."Mr. Meadows remains under the instructions of former President Trump to respect longstanding principles of executive privilege.
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