that not only was mark meadows a former white house chief of staff as high as you can get in american government in a non-elected capacity, but he was also a member of this body, a member of congress. it is remarkable that this congress which he was a former member of will take this step of holding him in criminal contempt. it s something they don t do often and rarely if ever do to one of their own, don? let s talk about some of the evidence that they are presenting. lawmakers revealing new text messages today sent to mark meadows. what did we learn, ryan nobles? yeah, it seems like every day we re getting new bits of information out of this trove of documents that meadows shared with the committee voluntarily. he handed these over and said they weren t privileged pieces of information. that s part of what the committee wants to ask about. there were two that stood out to me today during the presentation on the house floor. the first and i think you ve played it but i want to read
in that book about the president in president trump s ear leading up to the insurrection like john eastman, steve bannon. was meadows in the loop on the efforts to overturn the election? well, he was there. we didn t have much, we didn t have the detail but he s the one that called a meeting in his office, the chief of staff s office down the hall from the oval office with senator lindsey graham and some others and said okay, what have we got here? rudy giuliani, trump s lawyer was there and turned over these incredible documents, which we have published and shared with people where they say tens of thousands of young people voted
i don t think he kept a diary but you re dealing with the person meadows has his book out now called the chief s chief. that s an accurate description. i haven t read the book but the guy that has that job, it s 24/7 you have a president who has ideas who is breathing down your neck fix this, find this, do that and of course we re at the moment on january 6th, very important this this was donald trump taking the position that the election was stolen, that it was fraudulent and as we know, there is no evidence to support that claim. what an ego. there is no way i can lose. you did lose. he s lying. the text messages, bob, other
then president to come up with a plot to oust the acting attorney general, give himself the job. get the doj to intervene in you guessed it, georgia. to flip the state for trump. as mr. meadows non-privileged text reveal, he was communicating multiple times with a member of congress currently serving colleague of ours who was working with mr. clark. mr. meadows has no basis to refuse to testify regarding those communications. he is in contempt. it is outrageous. adam schiff reading out a text, we don t know who it s from. a text praising clark and saying he ll make a lot of so-called patriots happy. one of the texts to meadows on january 3rd came from an
unknown caller and referred to efforts to replace the leadership efforts. and said the following i heard jeff clark is getting put in on monday. that s amazing. it will make a lot of patriots happy and i m personally so proud that you are at the tip of the spear and i could call you a friend. as i said, unless you just want to look the other way. and then there is a text from an unnamed lawmaker the day after the election, the very next day as a matter of fact putting forth a quote aggressive strategy to overturn the election. on november 4th, a member of this body wrote to meadows here is an aggressive strategy, one day after the election. why can t the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania and other republican controlled