governor of colorado. we begin, though, with exclusive new reporting from cnn's jamie gangel and jake tapper on the former president's attempt to overturn the election. concerns a text message dated november 4th to then-white house chief of staff mark meadows and it lace out a rationale for overturning election results before they are fully known. maryland congressman jamie raskin read the texts tuesday night during contempt proceedings for meadows. >> here is an aggressive strategy. one day after the election, why can't the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, and other republican-controlled statehouses declare this is bs where conflicts in election not called that night and just send -- just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the scotus. >> now, when congressman raskin read that, he didn't say who the sender is believed to be. well tonight, it seems we know. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel joins nous with exclusive reporting. so what have you learned?