talking points memo after being turned over to the house january 6th committee earlier this year. the latest batch of released messages shows multiple republican lawmakers offering to cooperate with plans to keep trump in office. seemingly in exchange ah for partner requests. that s not good. one such message came from north carolina s newly elected senator ted budd, a congman at the time. the man asked to be pardoned may possible will hayes found guilty of bribery and fraud charges in 2020 but pardoned by trump shortly after this text was september. another message, raffensperger to find the exact number needed to reverse joe biden s 2020 win in the state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find ah
yeah. it was a hex. it was a hex. it s a hex! they loaded down, and all three of those guys after they wrote it down, like they re losing money. trump i mean, the bottom s falling out for all of we ll be this. joe, willie and me we have the host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay and like a rocketship, straight up. text messages never seen publicly. providing new insight into just how deeply the trump white house engaged with debunked election conspiracy theories following the 2020 vote. the 2,319 texts are from the phone of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. they were recently obtained by
statutes about getting in the way of public business, that s to be done he s guilty. he s guilty if you just look at it. of course, in america, everybody is innocent until proven guilty, but no man is above the law. no man s above the law. you look, though, at these statutes. and it was obvious the day after. and we just keep getting more and more and more evidence that s stacking up on top of i think republicans are starting to understand that, and that may be, mika, why you re starting to see so many republicans break away from trump. not because of, you know, they were concerned. right. for any moral reason. please. these are people who were fighting and screaming and scratching and clawing and voting and supporting this guy,
daniels morning joe senior contributor, and eugene, you have new numbers this morning from politico and morning consult on the biden administration s decision to trade brittney griner for arms dealer viktor bout. what did you find? yeah. we found 47% of plurality opposed the deal. including 69% of the gop opposing it. something from the very beginning of this when she was arrested, we shouldn t be surprising for folks, when brittney griner was arrested in russia immediately you started to see folks on the right, right-wing media criticizing her for the reason she got arrested. and then, you know, when the deal was announced last week, and started seeing videos of her coming home, started to erepublicans attacking her immediately feeks from donald trump on down criticizing the federal government, the biden administration for making the deal.
reason, but also because he s not winning elections for the republicans anymore. so that much is clear. and that s why we re seeing this shift towards desantis. again, that kind of blank slate, that voters can kind of, you know, make whatever they need to make for themselves, but the question i have, and maybe this is kind of a question for you, joe, but i was always taught in college, i was a political science major that actually studied political science of the american south specifically. i mean, we were always taught that politics in the south is very local. the question is, can the desantis effect be replicated elsewhere? or is actually, is this just something beyond trump? and is it about the toxicity of trumpism and will desantis antics we just talked about play with independence anywhere else? will he play with moderate republicans anywhere else? we don t really know that yet. so that s to be determined.