election and then in the heat of what you can call the fog of war on january 6. so who is sending these? we have them from a lot of different people in political spheres including more than 40 current and former members of congress who were texting meadows. there are group chats, individual chats, people sending theories about the election fraud conspiracy to meadows. and then on january 6, i want to walk through a couple of these that we d like to highlight that we think are very important because they come from such important people in the moment of what they were actually thinking. so we have representative marjorie taylor greene, she is a staunch supporter of donald trump, she send as text mark, i was just told there is an active shooter on the first floor of the capitol. please tell the president to calm people, this isn t the way to solve anything. now, greene the next day on
we knew that already he was the white house chief of staff at the time, but throughout this period after the election, top people, members of congress, more than 40 current and former members of congress, advisers, even family of donald trump, were sending him messages with this impression that he was the person that had trump s ear, that could tell trump what to do. so i want to walk through some of these. they really are striking. one of them, ivanka trump, the daughter of the president, is texting meadows and a number of other people in the inner circle including her husband jared kushner, some other top advisers, on november 5th, two days after the election, trump is refusing to concede, of course, he doesn t ultimately concede, clear he s losing battleground states, she texts, you are all warriors of epic pro portions, keep the faith and the fight. that s setting the tone. public messaging is also something that comes up quite a bit in these text messages to meadows.
badly unless we have legislatures submitting trump slates. congressman roy says he s become more skeptical and raises the alarm, texting meadows, in early january, saying, quote, if potus allows this to occur, we re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic. and in response to this reporting, a spokesperson for senator lee says that the senator has been, quote, fully transparent, meaning, there s really nothing new to discover out of this cnn report. congressman roy responded to this report yesterday in a tweet, saying he makes, in part, quote, no apologies for my private texts or public positions. to those on the left or the right. it s important to note also that mark meadows has not responded to this cnn report, but we did hear back from the january 6th committee, which is saying they are not commenting on the reporting, yasmin. and we re going to talk more, by the way, on this in our next hour as well with maya wiley.
texting meadows in early january, if potus allows this to occur, we re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic. now, in response to this article, a spokesperson for senator lee is saying that the senator has been fully transparent in his feelings about the election, about january 6th, so there s basically saying there s nothing new in discovery here. the congressman tweeted out a statement yesterday saying in part quote he makes no apologies for my private texts or public positions to those on the left or right. also, we have not heard from mark meadows in response to this article, but we did hear from the january 6th committee who said they have no comment on this report, alex. it s hard to give the evidence whether there s no there there. it s a list that gets longer, and it s raising a new alarm, that s ahead. also new outrage today in michigan of a police killing of an unarmed black man.
weeks after the election, things go dark until january 10th where she starts texting meadows and back and forth exchanges happen again. they are going to want to know who her best friend is. this is significant. if you re considering is there a line of demarkation between ginni thomas and clarence thomas, there is a data point which clarence thomas in a key decision was the lone holdout. . when they came to the tranches of documents to go to the national archives. they did despite the fact that they objected so it.