New reports indicate that President Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows has reached a deal to cooperate with the House panel investigating the Capitol riot. Meadows has reportedly agreed to provide documents and testify before the House panel.
The Hill reports:
“Mr. Meadows has been engaging with the Select Committee through his attorney. He has produced records to the committee and will soon appear for an initial deposition,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said Tuesday.
“The Select Committee expects all witnesses, including Mr. Meadows, to provide all information requested and that the Select Committee is lawfully entitled to receive. The committee will continue to assess his degree of compliance with our subpoena after the deposition.”
However, Meadows’ attorney signaled there is time for the deal to fall apart depending on the panel’s proceedings.
“As we have from the beginning, we continue to work with the Select Committee and its staff to see if we can reach an accommodation that does not require Mr. Meadows to waive Executive Privilege or to forfeit the long-standing position that senior White House aides cannot be compelled to testify before Congress,” Meadows’s attorney, George Terwilliger, said in a statement.
“We appreciate the Select Committee’s openness to receiving voluntary responses on non-privileged topics.”
The agreement comes after the House Select Committee announced it would vote to censure former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday.