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
former president and his allies have been trying to convey for most of the past year, and they show that his own family and some of his closest advisers and supporters in entertainment programs and on in the media understood that it was a very different picture. and apparently were quite alarmed by what was happening and the fact he wouldn t do more to stop it. what i m really struck by is if you watched mark meadows on fox news last night, none of that was discussed. he wasn t even asked about those matters and sean hannity who was interviewing him didn t acknowledge his own role in it. so if you are an american, one of millions of americans who is getting your news from a conservative news channel, you may not actually know what these texts say and have a full picture of what s happening. there are hours of that news channel that are entertainment, propaganda entertainment.
town. we also knew that there s always bad actors that will infiltrate large crowds. the fbi will infiltrate groups whether it s al qaeda, and they ll unwind before it takes place. we know what that means. the texts on the side panel were there were small. it basically shows this has all been b.s. all along. we know laura ingraham is saying things like this is going to ruin trump s legacy. not that this is so bad for the nation. police officers are getting hurt. this is going to ruin trump s legacy. we shouldn t say cable news any more when talking about certain players. it s not news. propaganda. yeah. there was a question in there somewhere for you, margaret. i promise. look, to watch the hearing last night and to watch liz cheney read these texts into the record, the texts obviously speak for themselves. they paint a very different picture than the ones that the
or even if they did know it wouldn t make any difference. we also learned last night an unnamed lawmaker apologized to meadows for failing to stop the vote count, writing this, we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. these messages are damning for meadows and potentially bad for other sitting members of congress. that s right. and i think, you know, don t forget, mark meadows was himself a member of congress who during his time in congress would absolutely have pushed back against any potential witness who didn t want to cooperate in the hearing. i think the revelations in the report sunday night and in the, in the remarks before the vote last night certainly give us a much fuller picture of the documents that meadows did turnover to the committee before he stopped cooperating. what they don t do is show us what he may not have turned over and the committee itself has
they told fox news, quote. after the president said what he said, we initiated the contact. there was no pressure. we acted in order to help. i have got news for you. if we found out that some our people were affecting the italian elections or the french elections, or the u.k. elections, we would also say we will help any way we can. ainsley: right. if the attorney general is looking in. they are investigating what happened during the mueller probably. don t they have the right to talk tore countries? brian: absolutely. ainsley: lindsey graham said this on hannity s show last night. barr should be talking to australia. he should be talking to italy. he should be talking to the u.k. to find out if their intelligence services worked with our intelligence service was improperly to open up a counterintelligence investigation of trump s campaign. if he s not doing that he s not doing his job. so i m going to write a letter to all three countries and asking them to cooperate with barr. now