Meadows and Cipollone probably have a week or so to make a decision?

[viva la]

1. If I were Meadows, I'd be at DOJ-- trying to cut a deal.

Cipollone probably doesn't have criminal exposure-- surely he was a savvy enough attorney to make sure of that-- but he is going to have to end up testifying to the committee at least. If he refuses a subpoena, he could then be in legal trouble.

Notice that the aides who tried in whatever way to stop Trump were lower-level-- Hutchison, the ss agents, the counsels.

Only really Pence and maybe the acting AG among the VIPs did much to stop this.

Meadows seems to have gone kind of catatonic, in fact.

Something that came up with all this talk of pardons-- I bet he "pocket pardoned" Meadows and Rudy and others. Pocket pardons have never been a thing (and can't be legal?), but I can see him doing that to keep them quiet. And he can still hold it over them now. Maybe that's why they haven't been indicted, because they've told the DOJ they have a pardon?