Georgia election hearing updates: Court adjourns with no decision yet in Meadows case

Court is in a brief recess after Mark Meadows testified for nearly three hours without breaks.

On the stand, Meadows firmly stood by his actions -- including observing the audit in Cobb County, Georgia, and setting up then-President Donald Trump's call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- putting it squarely as part of his role as chief of staff.

"I don't know that I did anything that was outside of my role as chief of staff," Meadows testified.

"I saw it as part of my role," Meadows said. "The president gave clear direction to deal with it."

Meadows said serving Trump "takes on all kinds of forms" and that much of the work had a "political component to certainly everything."

Meadows was careful with his words, at one point saying he didn't want to say anything incorrectly, while joking, "I'm in enough trouble as it is."

Attorneys for Trump were seated in the second row as Meadows testified.

-ABC News' Mike Levine, Aaron Katersky and Will Steakin

The state pressured former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about a text Meadows sent to Georgia Secretary of State chief investigator Frances Watson that read: "Is there any way to speed up Fulton County signature verdicts in order to have results before Jan. 6 if Trump campaign assist financially?"

Meadows claimed he was in a unique relationship, acting as chief of staff but not offering federal funds.

When prosecutors asked why he was making a financial offer, Meadows claimed he was trying to ask if the speed of counting was due to an overtime issue or financial constraint.

-ABC News' Danielle Jennings, Riley Hoffman and Will Steakin

Testifying about specific acts alleged in the indictment, Mark Meadows denied some allegations and attempted to describe his involvement as within his duties as White House chief of staff.

The indictment alleged that Meadows and then-President Donald Trump met with White House aide John McEntee twice in December 2020 and requested he prepare a memo about disrupting and delaying the Jan. 6 Joint Session of Congress.

"The strategy included having Vice President Michael R. 'Mike' Pence count only half of the electoral votes from certain states and then return the remaining electoral votes to state legislatures," according to the indictment.

Meadows denied requesting the memo and described that portion of the indictment as the "biggest surprise to me."

Another section of the indictment alleged Meadows traveled to Georgia on Dec. 22, 2020, to observe a signature match audit, which was not open to the public. Officials from the Georgia Secretary of State office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation prevented Meadows from observing the audit, according to the indictment.

Meadows testified that he observed the counting progress and that his actions fell within his responsibilities as chief of staff, including reporting his findings back to Trump.

"I believe I acted like a gentleman," Meadows testified about the interaction.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous, Riley Hoffman and Will Steakin

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on the stand that he maintained a "general awareness" of efforts following the 2020 presidential election to investigate allegations of fraud, but he added that there are some things he has only learned recently.

Meadows was asked about a meeting at the White House in December 2020 where Attorney General William Barr said he would resign. Meadows recalled that the meeting was about election-related allegations concerning fraud and election irregularities. He testified that Barr told then-President Donald Trump a lot of the election claims "had no merit" and that "some of it, to use his terms, was 'bulls---.'"

Meadows said he attended a meeting in the Oval Office with Michigan state legislators over allegations of potential fraud in his "official capacity as chief of staff" because he needed to be able to advise Trump.

-ABC News' Nadine El-Bawab