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The select committee investigating the Capitol riot recommended Monday that the House hold former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena.

The select panel also shared a series of anxious text messages that Meadows had received on Jan. 6, including from Fox News hosts and Trump’s own son, urging him to get the president to do something to stop the invasion.

“He’s got to condemn this s--- ASAP,” Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows at one point, select committee vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., revealed.

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The records produced by Meadows leave “no doubt” that the White House knew about the violent riot that was taking place at the Capitol as the chaos unfolded, Cheney said in the meeting.

She and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., read out a series of panicked messages that pro-Trump Fox News hosts, congressional lawmakers and others had sent Meadows during the riot.

“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy,” Cheney said, quoting a text from Fox host Laura Ingraham.

“Please get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished,” texted Brian Kilmeade of “Fox & Friends,” according to Cheney.

“Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol,” urged Sean Hannity, Cheney said.

Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s oldest son, texted Meadows “again and again,” Cheney said.

“We need an Oval Office address,” Trump Jr. wrote in one message, according to Cheney. “He’s got to condemn this s--- ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough,” he wrote in another, Cheney said.

“I’m pushing it hard. I agree,” Meadows responded, according to Cheney.

Trump, noted Cheney, did not take action for 187 minutes after the attack began.