much of that new information is courtesy of the house select committee investigating the january 6th riot. joining me now, member of the committee, california s pete aguilar. congressman, thanks tore for joining us. so, you hear reporting from jamie gangel and our jake tapper. i know you have to be careful about what you say. but i need to ask, do you believe rick perry was the author of that text message? we know who the author was. i am not in a position to to give that at this point. but i think it is more important to understand the white house chief of staff was entertaining text messages, you know, like these about overturning the elections. um, but for the time being, to protect our investigative work, we aren t going to divulge who that text message came from. one of the remarkable things about this text message is that it came the day after the election. i mean, this wasn t on, you know, a month later, two months later. that it sounds like this was already something that
if the committee can build a timeline using communication like this, it s critical to presenting their case. and and let s just underscore, again, mark meadows handed these over to the committee with no claim of privilege, anderson. jamie gangel, appreciate the reporting. thank you. going to come back to this story a bit later in the hour when a member of the select committee joins us but as with engz mengzed tioned at the top, day s covid dement dwemtss are significant. including a major victory in the president s vax man date for large companies. the ruling from the 6th circuit court of appeals says the government can enforce a vaccine or testing rule for companies with more than 100 employees. it came came as separate appeals court today declined a justice department request to reinstate the similar mandate on federal contractors. consequential and to a very busy week, more from cnn s kyung lah. reporter: america s covid time warp.
wait until the votes are counted. ignore the voters. it was really a strategy to subvert the will of the people. i mean, it s incredible that that i mean, again, the timing of it. just one day after the election. what is the particular significance of this text? i mean, why would it be so important for the committee to drill down on? so first, the committee may very well have other texts in this exchange that we don t know about, yet. did mark meadows respond? how does it fit with other evidence or communications that the committee is learning? our sources say this is just the tip of the iceberg. that it is one of many significant texts the committee is looking at. and in this case, it appears to show this strategy that trump world was already discussing. these are trump loyalists who apparently believe he is going to lose and they are coming up with plans to steal the election.
what? if you are unvaccinated and watching this, you very likely will get covid and every bit of data shows in science you are much better off if you get vaccinated first. we are not talking a marginal case. you are not twice twice as well off, three times as well off. you are 47 times less likely be hospitalized than if you are not vaccinated with covid. and that s simply the facts unembellished in the hospitals today. the best decision you can make to protect yourself. governor polis, presht your time. thank you. thank you, anderson. just ahead, more on our exclusive reporting tying rick perry to that now well-known text message suggesting a quote aggressive strategy unquote to overturn the 2020 election. this was the day after the election that message was sent. the january 6th committee believe es authored it. perry denies that. i will be joined by a member of that committee, next. i ve never woken up like this before. crafted with clinically studied plant-based ingredients
ongoing discussion among some people about how to overturn the election results, which, by the way, votes were still being counted at that time. yeah. and i think it s important that our timeline recognizes that. that s why chairman thompson has said we re not just investigating the rallies of january 5th and january 6th. everything that led up to that, including from the election day to that time. were there any points before the election that individuals had conversations about this type of strategy? was this something that they had been, you know, talking about while they cast doubt about absentee ballots and other lawfully given ballots to local officials? was this something that was a little bit deeper and was it something that was talked about before the location? those are all things that the committee wants to get to the bottom of. can you say if the committee has interviewed rick perry or or sought to interview him? i can t get into the individual meetings that we ve h