if you re making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, you re making excuses to hide the truth from the american people about what happened on january 6th. you re making excuses as part of a coverup. in other words, it is kind of open and shut. we ve also heard new evidence today, congresswoman zoey revealed meadows was receiving texts from an official in georgia with secretary raffensperger telling meadows to end this call. congressman adam schiff revealed an unidentified person texted meadows with knowledge of trump s plan to install an attorney general who would be receptive to ampliies his false claims of election fraud and revealed that meadows received encrypted messages from a member
united states from an assault while we were trying to count electoral votes. she might as well have added tell trump it was me who got him. the text from those republicans made it clear that they believe that trump and only trump was capable of calling off the mob, which means they knew that he was responsible for what was happening. trump even ignored the pleas from his own name sake son who texted meadows and weirdly not his dad to demand that his father show some leadership. he has to lead now donald trump junior said. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. last but not least, trump also ignored pleas for action from his right wing allies at fox news including laura ingraham, brian kilmeade and sean hannity. i should note per mother jones, meadows mentioned none of those texts in his book published last
of congress. this comes after the committee revealed other damming messages as the insurrection was unfolding at the capitol. trump s administration officials and others on ambiguously demanded meadows told trump to take action to stop the siege, to quote a few, potus has to calm this expletive down. fix this now. tell them to go down. liz cheney read more. here are a few others from republican members. quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. another one, the president needs to stop this asap. another one, fix this now. but we know hours passed with no action by the president to defend the congress of the
accomplished brian kilmeade texted. the morning news anchor made a late night appearance on fox to say this. i do not know trump supporters that have ever demonstrated violence that i know of in a big situation. uh-huh. and even sean hannity, the prime time host whose former executive producer literally went into the white house as trump s communications director for a time felt the need to reach out to meadows. quote, can he make a statement ask people to leave the capitol sean hannity urged. but of course on his show he downplayed the actions of those same trump supporters. like all americans, we watched this small group of people that was pretty big but compared to the overall crowd it was not the majority of people. the vast majority in washington d.c. today were peaceful. no matter how they try to down play or blame antifa or the
from anywhere, anytime. it s network management redefined. every day in business is a big day. we ll keep you ready for what s next. comcast business powering possibilities. so it goes without saying that for trump s time in office and with few exceptions, fox news and particularly a number of on air hosts acted as his unofficial advisors and time and again tried to play defense for the orange autocrat president. case in point, their efforts to down play january 6th as no big deal and full of perpetrators that were anything but trump supporters. but now, the january 6th committee has shined a bright scathing light on their hypocrisy by sharing what these tv personalities were texting trump s chief of staff as the capitol was under attack. that may come as no surprise to learn it does not quite match what they were saying to their audiences that very night.