one text mr. meadows received said, quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another, quote, they have breached the capitol. in a third, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol. breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? a fourth, there s an armed stand-off at the house chamber door. and another from someone inside the omcapitol, we are all helpless. dozens of texts, including from trump administration officials, urged immediate action by the president. quote, potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed.d in another, mark, he needs to stop this now. a third, in all caps, tell them to go home.
give you the names. are those names going to come out yet? they will come out. the information we received has been quite revealing about members of congress involved in the activities of january 6th as well as staff. some information we have received has been quite revealing about members of congress involved in the activities of january 6th as well as staff. presumably by which he means congressional staff. that is the chair of the january 6th investigation, congressman bennie thompson speaking with nbc s leigh ann caldwell tonight right after chairman thompson and his colleagues voted unanimously that trump white house chief of staff mark meadows should be held in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the investigation. this is the first time, i believe the first time, i think, a former member of congress has been held in criminal contempt or has been held in contempt of congress since the 19th century.
a fourth, and i quote, potus needs to calm this [ bleep ] down. indeed, according to the records, multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.co they texted mr. meadows, and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, brian kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a statement,
elections, trying to induce officials to mess with the election thresults, pressuring officials to change election results, that sng a crime in evy state in the country. and one of the things we should maybe start thinking about is whether these revelations that have been turned up by the investigation already, whether these revelations might potentially start state prosecutors looking at these things in other states just like they re looking at them in georgia.onp in many ways that would seem like the next logical step here. and it would be a big freaking deal, particularly if it involvesar members of congress, several of whom, apparently, were in discussions with white house chief i of staff mark meadows about thista overturn-the-election plot, including facilitating communications directly with state officials who had election responsibilities so they could be pressured by the trump whitehouse, by members of congress, by trump lawyers and others into messing with the election result
of the committee showed up and the lead counsel for the investigation laid out for the record all the questions they le would have asked mark meadows had he bothered to appear. quote, we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from members of congress, including text messages received from a member of congress in november, 2020, regarding efforts to contact state r.ge legislators because, as mr. meadows indicates in his text messages, quote, potus, meaning the president, wants to chat with them, end quote. we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from another member of congress in november, 2020, in which the member of congress indicates that, quote, the president asked him to call arizona governor th doug ducey, end quote, in which mr. meadows asked for contact information for the attorney general of arizona to discuss allegations of election fraud. quote, we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and received from members