we re learning what republican lawmakers were reporting to donald trump s chief of staff in the days and weeks leading up to january 6. meanwhile, today on capitol hill, senators are trying to buy time to avoid a government shutdown. plus, the biden administration gives an update on negotiations to bring home another american locked up in russia. good morning. welcome to way too early. this is tuesday, december 13th. thank you for starting your day with us. almost two years after the january 6 insurrection, thousands of previously unseen text messages are revealing the length that s republican lawmakers went in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the 2,319 texts which were obtained by talking points memo were returned over to the house
and it is interesting to get we have seen some of the footage. we heard some of the stories and it is interesting to get the behind the scenes of her with her mom. and imagine, listen, you were in d.c. during the insurrection. she just happened to have cameras in the capitol. and it is interesting because it is from the view of her daughter s eye, but it is so significant to see this moment and to see this footage that we wouldn t have otherwise. her talking about trump that day and even before the attack had happened. tonight. yeah. even in all of this, you cannot tell your mom that it is time to they re thinking about mom s in charge, yeah. the toll on the family was interesting too. good morning. good morning to you as well. thank you, everyone, for joining us. it is tuesday, december 13th and this is cnn this morning. we appreciate you hanging with us. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories on cnn this morning. the founder of and ceo former ceo of
are trying to buy themselves some time to avoid a government shut down. we ll have more on their stopgap plan. also ahead this morning, dr. anthony fauci joins us as he wraps up five decades of public service. a lot to talk with him about this morning. a lot of questions for him. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, december 13th. joe is off, along with willie and me we have former white house communications director under president obama, jen palmieri, she s cohost of show time s the circus the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle joins us this morning. and willie, we start this morning with the mark meadows text messages. boy, he was receiving a lot of them from members of congress. the president s chief of staff. yeah, shocking stuff here, perhaps not surprising, but it remains shocking. nearly two years after the january 6th insurrection,
very tight timeline of a very busy few weeks, all of these secret meetings that is happened in a real hurry right after trump was elected but before he was sworn in. trump gets elected novemberth it, three weeks later on december 1st, that s when flynn and jared meet with the russian ambassador at trump tower and talk about the secret on going means of communication and also they should set up a meeting where they could have an envoy for trump meet with an envoy for putin. so that was december 1st. then everything starts to happen in a rush. monday, december 12th,less than two weeks later after the last meeting there, the russian ambassador comes back to trump tower. this time he reportedly meets with jared s assistant. that was monday, december 12th. tuesday december 13th, jared himself takes a meeting at trump tower with the head of a sanctioned russian bank, one who has a military intelligence background installed in his job by russian president vladimir putin.
and especially with what we just reported out in the last few days in the context of the special counsel s investigation, we got in phenomenal very tight timeline of a very busy few weeks all these secret meetings that happened in a real hurry right after trump was elected but before he was sworn in so trump gets elected november 8th. three weeks later on december 1 s that s when flynn and jared meet with the russian am basketball to ambassador at trump tower and talk about the secret on going means of communication and also they should set up a meeting where they could have an envoy of trump. that was december 1st. then everything starts to happen in a rush. monday, december 12th,less than two weeks later after the last meeting there, the russian ambassador comes back to trump tower and meets with jared s assistant monday december 12th and tuesday december 13th, jared