and what he s doing there is he s basically asking the white house chief of staff to pry into election administration, and what we know, anderson, now, what we re able to confirm, is this is the sort of thing that federal investigators, not just the house select committee that got these text messages already, but the justice department. this is the sort of thing that they would want to know about as well. and what we are reporting tonight at cnn is that there is an under sealed court proceeding after perry s cell phone was seized in august, a proceeding that went in confidential. we don t know how it was resolved, but it is one of those proceedings where justice department prosecutors continue to want to get data out of him. i was confused in these text messages. he s talking about the cyber forensics team as if it s some sort of renowned group that should be known about. are these just conspiracy theories that he s read online? and he s just passing along to mark meadows, like, you
donald trump was pushing. he is writing things like, mark, there are instructions from the cyber forensic team. please ensure widest dissemination and act. please tell they need to preserve the specific voting machine scanners used at the voting places where the glitch occurred. put them under lock and key. nobody touches them. he goes on with very similar requests to mark meadows after the november election. and what he is doing there is he is basically asking the white house chief of staff to pry into election administration. and what we know anderson now, what we re able to confirm is this is the sort of thing that federal investigators, not just the house select committee that got these text messages already, but the justice department, this is the sort of thing that they would want to know about as well. and what we are reporting tonight at cnn there is an under seal court proceeding after perry s cell phone was seized in august, a proceeding that went confidential. we don t kno