Ex-Trump aide Meadows cooperating with House Jan. 6 panel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s erstwhile main of staff, is cooperating with a House sheet investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and providing immoderate documents, the sheet says.

That puts off, for now, the committee's menace to clasp him successful contempt.

Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said the committee “will proceed to assess" Meadows' compliance aft helium gives a deposition, which is expected soon.

“The Select Committee expects each witnesses, including Mr. Meadows, to supply each accusation requested and that the Select Committee is lawfully entitled to receive,” wrote Thompson successful a statement. “The committee volition proceed to measure his grade of compliance with our subpoena aft the deposition.”

The statement comes aft 2 months of negotiations betwixt Meadows and the committee and aft the Justice Department indicted longtime Trump state Steve Bannon for defying his subpoena.