Grandparents killed in wrong-way crash on Hwy. 401 identified
A 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 401 earlier this week have been identified by the Consulate General of India in Toronto.
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief of staff, is co-operating with a U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and providing some documents, putting off for now the panel's threat to hold him in contempt, the committee's chairman said Tuesday.
But the panel “will continue to assess his degree of compliance,” Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a statement.
The agreement comes after two months of negotiations between Meadows and the committee and after the Justice Department indicted longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena.
Thompson said Meadows has produced records and will soon appear for an initial deposition.
“The Select Committee expects all witnesses, including Mr. Meadows, to provide all information requested and that the Select Committee is lawfully entitled to receive,” Thompson said.
Meadows' lawyer, George Terwilliger, said he was continuing to work with the committee and its staff on a “potential accommodation” that would not require Meadows to waive executive privilege nor “forfeit the long-standing position that senior White House aides cannot be compelled to testify before Congress,” as Trump has argued.
“We appreciate the Select Committee's openness to receiving voluntary responses on non-privileged topics,” Terwilliger said in a statement.
The tentative agreement with Meadows highlights the committee's efforts to balance its need for information about Trump's role in the violent insurrection with the former president's assertions - including in an ongoing court case - that Congress cannot obtain information about his private conversations with top aides at the time.
While the committee has rejected Trump's arguments and President Joe Biden has waived the privilege as the current executive, the panel wants to move quickly and avoid lengthy legal entanglements, if possible, that could delay the investigation.
Terwilliger had previously made clear that Meadows wouldn't comply with the panel's September subpoena because of Trump's executive privilege claims. The committee rejected those arguments, especially after the White House said that Biden would waive any privilege over Meadows' interview and as courts shot down Trump's efforts to stop the committee from gathering information.
The House panel argued that it has questions for Meadows that do not directly involve conversations with Trump and couldn't be blocked by privilege claims.
In the committee's subpoena, Thompson cited Meadows' efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 election defeat and his pressure on state officials to push the former president's false claims of widespread voter fraud.
The committee has scheduled a vote for Wednesday to pursue contempt charges against a separate witness, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, after he appeared for a deposition and declined to answer questions.
A 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 401 earlier this week have been identified by the Consulate General of India in Toronto.
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