stolen. it is all going to come down to the keystone state. reporter: but a new batch of text messages obtained by cnn illuminate how active he was behind the scenes as well. new messages showing that he had a role at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay the certification of the 2020 election. on november 12, five days after the election was called for joe biden, perry texted chief of staff mark meadows. from an intel friend, dni needs to task nsa to immediately seize and begin looking for international cohs related to dominion. was china malware involved? this text has never been revealed before. and it shows perry encouraging meadows to get john radcliff, then director of national intel against, to look into false conspiracies about dominion voting machines being hacked by the chinese.