Fox News host Sean Hannity interviewed Mark Meadows about the Capitol riot committee's investigation but declined to discuss how, hours earlier, the panel revealed a text message from Hannity urging Meadows to get former President Donald Trump to make a statement to stop the violence on Jan. 6.

Instead, Meadows was presented the opportunity to respond to the Jan. 6 committee, which voted unanimously Monday to advance contempt proceedings against Meadows, Trump's White House chief of staff on Jan. 6, who last week stopped cooperating with its investigation into the Capitol riot.

"Obviously, it's disappointing, but not surprising. And let's be clear about this, Sean, this is not about me — holding me in contempt. It's not even about making the Capitol safer. We see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on right now," Meadows said. "This is about Donald Trump and about actually going after him once again continuing to go after Donald Trump. And when we look at the real results of this investigation, it is not really — the foundation is not based on a legislative purpose."

Hannity brought up Liz Cheney, the vice chairwoman on the panel, in how she is working with Democrats who condemned her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, as a "war criminal, a murderer, and a crook."

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What did not come up was how Cheney read texts from Hannity, and other Fox News personalities, to Meadows on Jan. 6, pressing for some sort of statement or action to address or stop the violence on Capitol Hill. The messages were provided to the committee by Meadows before he stopped cooperating with its inquiry.

“Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol,” Cheney read from Hannity's text to Meadows on Jan. 6.

While the frantic messages he received that day did not come up, Meadows did spend some time defending Trump.

"I think, at the end of the day, they're going to find that not only did the president act, but he acted quickly," Meadows said. "The reason [the National Guard] was able to respond when they did was because President Trump actually put them on alert."

Another text message exchange read by the committee on Monday showed that Meadows himself agreed that the Oval Office needed to do more to respond to the riot.

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"We need an Oval Office address, he has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand," Donald Trump Jr., who is the former president's eldest son, texted Meadows.

Trump Jr. texted Meadows repeatedly during the riot, according to Cheney, and at one point, Meadows told him, "I'm pushing it hard, I agree."