election itself. but on that day, demanding trump take immediate action. now, though, meadows is claiming that cheney and the committee are trying to use the evidence that he handed over to them to twist the truth on trump s inaction that day. they tried to weaponize text message selectively leak them to put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. and i can tell you this is the president did act. that was last night. i mean there is no twisting the messages or the timeline because the messages simply show that team trump was acutely aware of how bad the situation was while trump did nothing right? remember, according to the committee, trump s own son, donald trump jr. messages me doughs as the riot is going down he s got to condemn this, his word, shit, asap. he did not send that message because trump was doing something. he sent it because trump was
is that not only did that just get disregard, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leaked them to put out a narrative that quite frankly that the president didn t act, and i can tell you the president did act. this is all about, you know it s not about holding me in contempt. it s about coming after president donald trump, and sadly that s what tonight s vote was all about. we know it was hours before trump released that video statement telling the rioters to go home and remember in that same statement he told the capitol rioters we love you. we know the national guard response was delayed, but there is still a lot we don t know about what was happening in the white house during the attack. gloria, if trump was actively trying to stop the violence, wouldn t you think he and his allies would have made sure that the public knew about if? yeah. i think so, and i think it s quite obvious that he wasn t trying to stop the violence.
everything you ve accomplished, brian kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. so, speaking of hannity, mark meadows appeared on hannity s show last night. you might think the two would talk about these text messages. but no, meadows did, however, mention the text on newsmax. we ve tried very hard in a very transparent and accommodating way to share nonprivileged information. right. and what we found out tonight is that not only did that just get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text message, leak them to put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. and i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about you it s not about holding me in contempt. it s about coming after president donald trump. cnn s ryan nobles has more from capitol hill on all of this. reporter: christine and
people should be prosecuted so we need this information out there for historical purposes, for accuracy, but also for just accountability as well which seems to be diminishing by the day. and because they failed that derrick the effort now to roll back voting rights and infiltrate election officials, they failed that day so they are work now to find ways we need to do that again. the levers we tried to do that day. mark meadows saying not surprising. obviously it s disappointing but not surprising, and let s be clear about this, sean. this is not about me holding me in contempt. it s not even about make the capitol safar. we see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on right now. this is about donald trump. think tried to weaponized text messages selectively leaked to put out a narrative that quite frankly the president didn t act, and can i tell you this is the president did act.
insurrection, saying publicly the opposite of what they were texting privately. here s how meadows responded last night. what they ve done is had a contempt vote. we ve tried very hard, in a very transparent and accommodating way, to share non-privileged information. what we found out tonight is not only did that get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leak them, and put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn t act. i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about you know, it is not holding me in contempt. it is about coming after president donald trump. sadly, that s what tonight s vote was all about. republican congresswoman and vice chair of the january 6th house committee liz cheney read the texts aloud as the panel gathered to advance the contempt of congress charge against mark meadows. the full house is expected to vote on the resolution today.