and as of today she is also an msnbc contributor. thank you for being here. congratulations. come into the family. let s talk about these text messages. so you know that the committee has only reviewed a sliver of the thousands of text messages, how many of those text messages do you believe were provided by former chief of staff mark meadows? yeah, alex, it s a good question. mark meadows has certainly provided the majority of the text messages that the committee has receivedte so far. we believe that number is upwards of 7,000 but meadows himself provided 4,000 personal text messages, most of which were actually not reviewed by the former president trump s legal team since they were retrieved from a personal device. meadows text messages are really viewed by the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, asar sort of a connective tissue that is really pulling all of the disparate threads about the planning leadingte up to and on january h
0 that is all in on this wednesday night. the rachel maddow show is with what alex wagner, good evening alex. good evening, chris. my kids would bang on pots and pans after the start of the pandemic. ns after the start of th pandemic of the pandemic. it was very special and it felt like being something special across distance and it inspired things and i look back now and it we are a long way from that moment, my friend. thank you as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on december 1st of 2020 a few weeks after the presidential election,fe a republican state representative in michigan got a very odd voice mail message. wery played a recording of this voice mail message on the show before. it was obtained by a small news service called the michigan information anded research service. but now, in light of new developments, this voice mail has taken on even more significance. hi, representative, my name is angela mccalum, i m calling from trump campaig