one of the president's closest allies in congress, mark meadows, reveals new text messages show a coordinated effort in the fbi and justice department to harm the trump campaign. the house republicans suggest without evidence that texts between former fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page point to what he calls a media leak strategy. let's get more from cnn's laura jarrett in washington. >> reporter: well, good morning. for the past several months, something of a pattern has started to develop here as republican lawmakers uncover a text exchange between the two former officials. the president tweets out a suggestion that the fix is in at the fbi, and the latest controversial appears to be no exception. congressman mark meadows has seized upon a text exchange from strzok to page in april of 2017 where he says to her, "i want to talk to you about media leak strategy with doj."