authenticated by the new york times, these text message exchanges from the two republican lawmakers were sent in the weeks leading up to the capitol attack to then chief of staff mark meadows. they talk about support for trump s efforts to overturn the election and remain in power until ultimately, backing off when they realized his claims were baseless. nbc s allie raffa reports from capitol hill on this. reporter: well, yasmin, over the last few weeks, we have learned of several texts between former white house chief of staff mark meadows and people inside former president trump s inner circle, people like his own son, donald trump jr., justice clarence thomas s wife, ginny thomas, talking about efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but now because of these texts, we re learning from several gop lawmakers about just how invested they were in trying to overturn the election. two of these specifically are senator mike lee and congressman chip roy, and it s important to note that b
violent elements of organized groups like the proud boys and the oath keepers and others, they need to be held responsible because they were absolutely preaching violence, and the violent overthrow of a free, fair, accurate election.free, fair, accurate election. in a way, it is easier to make choices to hold the leaders of the proud boys accountable, especially because of what they stand for. but a what about the kevin mccarthys of the world, what about the jim jordans of the world, what about the former president of the united states who may very well run for president yet again? jim jordan, if, in fact, republicans win back control of congress may very well be the head of a committee. considering his involvement in the lead-up to january 6th, those text message exchanges that we now know happened, that s troublesome to a lot of folks. yes.
was a controversy around that. that was looked into both by the prime minister s advisor for ministerial standards and also by the electoral commission because it had been funded by, or helps to be funded by, a tory donor. in the course of those investigations, what has emerged now i these text message exchanges that had happened between borisjohnson and the donor. at the time boris johnson didn t know it was the donor himself he was providing the money, rather than just putting together some sort of trust. but in those exchanges boris johnson some sort of trust. but in those exchanges borisjohnson asks some sort of trust. but in those exchanges boris johnson asks for exchanges borisjohnson asks for some more money to do more work on the flat, and then says, i am on the flat, and then says, i am on the great exhibition idea, will revert shortly. what that is being picked up for is the idea that there is some sort of quid pro quo going on here that borisjohnson worked
trial, but if convicted, yeah, he can go to trail. but they ve said a lot already. just from what he s turned over, they have a lot about what he knew and what donald trump was doing and they re also going to third party providers, cell phone companies, to internet companies to find out what else was going on. what would be the value of not testifying after your halfway there and you ve submitted all of this paperwork that shows everything that you ve done? they re guilty. and he may this is what he turned over and it s pretty disturbing. somebody who sat in a chamber and seen those text message exchanges as 187 minutes went by and the president did nothing, what privilege is he holding back? and the second question is what was donald trump doing or not doing at the time? he certainly does not want to tell us that. congresswoman, curious what
emails from his private cell phone and private email account. he s produced these documents. they are not privileged. and that s kind of the interesting part in all of this, don. you know, just a couple of days ago mark meadows said that he was going to cooperate with the committee. he handed over 6,000 documents. he was scheduled to sit for a deposition this morning. those documents revealed a lot of information, text message exchanges with members of congress and rally organizers and others. for some reason in the last 24 hours he decided he did not want to comply, did not want to cooperate, filed this lawsuit today and now he s facing a criminal contempt referral. laura, the trump era has become the lawsuit litigation era. you heard from congresswoman cheney there, she is throwing cold water all over meadows lawsuit. does it hold any legal water? no, it doesn t. she should throw cold water. imagine that, you are able to hand over 6,000 pages of documents and think you can be qu