justice clarence thomas who attended a stop the steal rally. straight to cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, take us through what we've learned. >> reporter: well, amara, in this most recent batch a few bold-faced names but start with ginni thomas, someone not a household name but the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. now, she was asked about text messages she exchanged with then white house chief of staff mark meadows in the days and weeks following the election and what is so surprising here, amara, we're seeing in the transcript something we rarely see which is some remorse and regret. cnn has previously reported that the committee was in possession of about two dozen text messages that thomas who is a conservative activist exchanged with meadows where she was pleading with him to try to overturn the results of the election and followed up with him multiple times and when these text messages were revealed they raised a lot of questions about whether the wife of a justice should be