to a certain extent. text messages sent to mark meadows from jim jordan. this is an individual that could feasibly be a committee chair in a year s time if in fact republicans take the house. what do you make of that, how is that accountability? well, you re right, and that s why it s important that the committee get its work done this year and make any criminal referrals it needs to to the department of justice. that includes any members of congress who had an active role in helping to plan or prepare for the attacks of january 6th. i don t think that there should be any kind of congressional courtesy or custom that s followed that would let members of congress off the hook just because they re members of congress if they actively helped to plan this attack or helped the people who were planning the attack, and also if they were helping donald trump try to steal an election by preventing congress from doing its duty and
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back control of congress. and at that point, this investigation could feasibly be over. right. the committee i think has been careful not to set out an explicit timeline, especially since they re confronting this kind of stonewalling from some of the witnesses that they re trying to talk to. but at the same time, you re right, there s just sort of a practical deadline that by the end of this spring, if they haven t brought this investigation to some kind of a conclusion and aren t moving towards making public a report, the whole thing really sort of disappears into the midterm elections. so i think as a practical matter, they ve got three, four, five months here into the new year to get at least the congressional part of this investigation wrapped up. the criminal investigations are another matter. we re going to get into that in just a moment as well. let s talk about the text messages that josh just mentioned, i want to go through some of those text messages of course to the form