The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took up a contempt of Congress charge against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. This comes after Meadows defied a subpoena from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lisa Desjardins begins this report, and Judy Woodruff gets more from Jonathan Shaub, professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

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