entertainers, even lawmakers, that all privately and, for a time, unsuccessfully beg to do something to stop the violence as the attack unfolded at the capitol. there's plenty of focus about people speaking out of pboth sides of their mouths on tv about this. while that is salacious, there are legal implications here. what could be a road map as to what the white house knew, what the white house did, what the white house didn't do, even what the white house may have coordinated before, during, and after the attack. it shows an acute, keen awareness the capitol was under siege. donald trump jr. writes meadows about his father. he's got to condemn this shit asap. laura ingraham writes, this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. sean hannity writes, ask people to leave the capitol. >> of course, the same people who were pleading with mark meadows that day have spent months downplaying the insurrection, saying publicly the opposite of what they were texting privately. here's how meadows responded last night. >> what they've done is had a contempt vote. we've tried very hard, in a very transparent and accommodating way, to share non-privileged information. what we found out tonight is not only did that get disregarded, but then they tried to weaponize text messages, selectively leak them, and put out a narrative that, quite frankly, the president didn't act. i can tell you, the president did act. this is all about -- you know, it is not holding me in contempt. it is about coming after president donald trump. sadly, that's what tonight's vote was all about. >> republican congresswoman and vice chair of the january 6th house committee liz cheney read the texts aloud as the panel gathered to advance the contempt of congress charge against mark meadows. the full house is expected to vote on the resolution today. let's get to whitney wild, live in washington, with more on the dramatic, new evidence we got last night. >> reporter: what the candid text messages show is this growing dismay throughout the course of the riot within trump's inner circle, and it shows that all of these people were basically pleading with the one man they thought could change the president's mind and try to get him to condemn the violence. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> those opposed, say no. >> reporter: members of the january 6th committee voting to formally advance a criminal contempt report against mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff. >> this is a near unique moment in history, as we vote on whether to hold a former colleague in contempt of congress. mark meadows has committed a crime, in this case, a premeditated one. >> reporter: before the vote, the committee revealed text messages from then president donald trump's allies in the media, showing them calling for him to act as thousands of pro-trump rioters were pounding the capitol building. attempting to violently disrupt the certification of the presidential election. >> the gentleman will proceed. >> multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. they texted mr. meadows, and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan kilmeade texted. quote, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. >> reporter: from fox news personalities to trump's own son. >> as the violence continued, one of the president's sons texted mr. meadows. quote, he's got to condemn this [ bleep ] asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded, quote, i'm pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. >> reporter: also a message from an unnamed lawmaker sent after the violence. >> the last message i want to highlight, again from a lawmaker in the aftermath of january 6th. yesterday was a terrible day. we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i'm sorry nothing worked. the day after a failed attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power through violence, an elected lawmaker tells the white house chief of staff, i'm sorry nothing worked. >> reporter: these chilling text messages were voluntarily handed over by mark meadows. a top white house official on january 6th, meadows stopped cooperatinge ine ing suddenly w house select committee. >> mr. meadows started by bdoin the right thing, cooperating. he handed over records he didn't try to shield behind some excuse. but in an investigation like ours, that's just the first step. when the records raise questions, as these most certainly do, you have to come in and answer those questions. when it's time for him to follow the law, come in and testify on those questions. he changed his mind and told us to pound sand. he didn't even show up. >> this witness must testify like 300 other witnesses before him have done, either voluntarily and proudly as a patriotic citizen or at least under compulsion of subpoena by the congress of the united states. >> reporter: a congress that is trying to uncover what meadows could be withholding. >> the supreme court has made very clear that executive privilege is not absolute, and that's exactly what mr. meadows is claiming. the fact that he sent us all these documents shows that he understands that he doesn't enjoy absolute privilege. >> reporter: representative pete aguilar also told reporters that he believes meadows backed away from his promise to cooperate because, quote, president trump told him to. but the members of the select committee are not backing down. >> he owes us an explanation, and we need to get it. his unlawful refusal to answer the questions about the material that he has acknowledged is not subject to executive privilege. >> reporter: reacting on sean hannity's show monday night to the contempt vote, meadows attempted to shift the narrative. >> obviously, it is disappointing but not surprising. let's be clear about this, sean, this is not about me holding me in contempt. it is not even about me making the capitol safer. we see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on whright now. this is about donald trump and actually going after him once again, continuing to go after donald trump. when we look at the real results of this investigation, it is not really -- the foundation is not based on a legislative purpose. very high probability that they will refer me for criminal contempt to doj. >> what will you do, congressman? >> at this point, sean, it'll be turned over to the hands of doj. i can say this, that when you look at the criminal component of this, the intent, there's never been an intent on my part. i tried to share non-privileged information. truly, the executive privilege that donald trump has claimed is his to wave. it is not mine to wave. it is not congress' to wave. that's why we filed the lawsuit, to hopefully get the courts to weigh in. hopefully they'll weigh in. >> reporter: meanwhile, the house select committee has a strong warning to mark meadows and all other potential witnesses who refuse to comply with the panel's subpoenas. >> if you are listening at home, mr. meadows, mr. bannon, mr. clark, i want you to know this, history will be written about these times, about the work this committee has undertaken, and history will not look upon any of you as martyrs. >> reporter: the next step is this referral for criminal contempt charge to go to the house floor, where it'll likely pass, and then it'll go to the department of justice where it'll be up to attorney general merrick garland to decide how to handle this referral. >> we'll see how the attorney general does handle it. it's still remarkable in and of itself that a majority of the house is expected to do this, given that mark meadows was in the house once. whitney wild, thank you. i want to bring in john avalos, se cupp, and early start anchor and attorney-at-law lalaura jarnt. la jarrett. laura, i want to start with you. fox news this, fox news that, i think this investigation changed as far as what the public knows about it. what has always been missing about january 67th is what was going on at the white house during those hours? what was happening? now, we have a road map of at least the incoming messages here. >> and a damning portrait, i think, of a lot of inaction, right? we have someone who is occupying one of the highest positions in the white house, getting a deluge of incoming messages from people who are sheltering in place in congress saying, "please, please help me." we have a president who essentially failed to call the fire department after lighting a match that set this entire fire. and the damning portrait of inaction, i think, is what they need to flush out a little bit. because we're getting the one side of the conversation, which is, "please, please stop this." what was he saying in response? we know from so much great reporting out there that he was enjoying the spectacle on television he was watching unfold that day, but we need more information now. we just have that little sliver of the one side of the conversation. >> well, that's the thing. we don't know what meadows did with these messages. did he go directly to trump? we know he was one of the very few people who wanted to be around the president that day. our reporting was a lot of people were avoiding the oval office as it was going on. what does it tell you, they can no longer deny they didn't know what was happening on capitol hill because they were getting texts from people at the capitol saying, we are literally under siege here. >> that's significant, and the fact that the fox news feedback loop has been exposed. all the people who have been trying to ritualistically downplay this attack on the democracy. saying it was a mostly peaceful protest. it was tourists on a -- you know, in areas they weren't supposed to be in times they weren't supposed to be there. they were lying. this is a desperate moment, the capitol was being attacked. they were pleading to the president. nothing resembling journalists in the administration. denials on tv and in congress, they're all lies. it was self-evident, and they tried to create a false impression going forward to protect the president, protect the administration, and protect their reputations. they've played the audience for fools. >> liz cheney also made what i think is a direct reference to the fact that she thinks donald trump may have broken the law. in her statement, she said, did donald trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress' proceeding? she said that because there's a law against that. she clearly thinks the answer is yes, at least might be yes there. there is a specific law about impeding the action of congress. if trump is doing that, and if that can be proved, and if these texts are a road map to his complicity here, it does raise the question of, does liz cheney expect some kind of criminal referral against donald trump? >> well, i think it's clear, through a lot of these text messages and what we're learning in this hearing, why republicans wanted to run away from this hearing, why republicans didn't want this to happen. because imagine if we had the text messages of every member of congress or of everyone in the white house that day. i think it would be pretty damning. and we'll learn a lot from this commission. republicans who are not adam ki kinzinger or liz cheney is calling it a takedown of donald trump. it is inaction by the president, and it makes you wonder what doj is waiting for. perhaps this. perhaps this commission. to finally, you know, lob some charges over at trump and the folks who were around him on that day. it seems very clear, i think, to people watching that he did not follow the law and perhaps problem the law. >> laura, before we get to the aspect of the relationships with the fox news hosts who were clearly pleading with mark meadows, the most dramatic piece they unveiled last night were these texts from donald trump jr. so what does it say to you that he was going to the chief of staff, doesn't appear directly to his dad. we don't know whether or not he directly appeared to his own father, but he was going to the chief of staff at the time to try to get him to get through to his dad about this. >> so i don't have a psychology degree. i can't speak to sort of the bizarre father/son dynamics happening there. again, it does speak to sort of the facade that has been created, the whitewashing of the insurrection versus the reality of what we all know was happening behind the scenes. clearly, even donald trump jr. knew it had gotten out of hand. to use his words. >> yeah. i think it also speaks to the fact that people were trying to convince the president, apparently, to do what was right, to do what was responsible, self-evidently, and he was resisting. they were trying to figure out how to get to him. mark meadows is one of the few people entering the oval, based on existing reporting, at that time. the president, based on reporting, is seemingly enjoying this. that chapter will be called, "some people just like to watch the world burn." that's what the president of the united states was doing. >> i don't have a psychology degree either, but i am a father and have a son. it is sad. someone tell dadly the dy the c is burning down. he won't respond to me. i can't reach him. you tell him. >> someone tell daddy to do something. >> i think it speaks to the level -- trump jr. is seeming to be most in touch with the president's base, the maga crowd. since he was reaching out, it says a lot. we have a lot on the relationships with the fox news hosts and what they were also saying to the former chief of staff, despite, of course, what they were saying publicly about this. plus, swing state democrats are now warning the party isn't doing enough about the big lie takeover at the grassroots level. what they believe should be happening. just in, we have big news out of south africa. this is a big chunk of the data that we've been waiting for, to learn about what the omicron variant does. how many more people are getting sick? 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peacefully protest. we had reports that groups like antifa, other radical groups, i don't know the names of all of them, that they were there to cause trouble. i want to explain in detail, if i can, what today is about and why people are feeling the way they're feeling, to the extent that i think i can. and this is not something that is -- has happened here in a vacuum. >> they're going to do anything to keep that narrative alive of january 6th because, i don't know, if liz cheney runs out of space in the gop's big tent -- >> why isn't liz cheney looking into the 500 plus riots that took place in cities all across the country in 2020? >> the fbi will infiltrate groups, whether it's the mob or al qaeda, and they're try to be one of them and unwind a part before it takes place. >> right. >> do you think maybe, perhaps, and maybe you don't want to give away your theories, you find indications the fbi was actually pushing for this invasion? >> the latest political charade on capitol hill, that is nancy pelosi's january 6th commission. literally, it has one mission and one mission only, oh, let's see if we can impeach, slander, and smear donald trump one more time and the gop one more time on television. >> every other network has a test pattern. >> exactly. >> this is all they cover. it is unbelievable. >> there was certainly a lot of violence that day, but it was not a terrorist attack. it wasn't 9/11. it wasn't the worst thing that ever happened to america. it wasn't an insurrection. the theatrics were intended to promote a logical reaction, facts be dammed. we will have the best performances. best use of an exaggeration in a supporting role, the winner -- best performance in an action role, michael fanone. >> se cupp, john avenue laura . i wonder if they ever met them. >> it is incredibly sad because they've been hoodwinking their viewers the past five plus years, insisting with all the passion and fury that they really believe what they're telling them. then they go home at night and kind of laugh about it, i'm sure. because if you listen to these text messages, if you read them, it is clear they knew that day that it was bad. i'm sure they've known trump was dangerous all along. i know this because i talk to fox news people who tell me, yeah, this is messed up, man. not five minutes later, i'm watching them on television defending donald trump. i just want to go back, though, to one thing john said, john avalon. i understand his point. it looks like atd l least some these people were trying to get trump to, quote, do the right thing. i don't think so. when you look at these texts, laura ingraham and kilmeade are imploring mark meadows based on saving trump's legacy, not doing the right thing. they're saying trump is destroying his legacy, not democracy. forget about the fact he is literally destroying democracy right now. the problem is his legacy. so i wouldn't even give them that much credit, to think that sort of in the 11th hour they started feeling really bad about what was happening to america. i think they started feeling really bad about what was happening to donald trump. >> i'll add to that. what was happening to them. because the other half of the laura ingraham text you just read, this is hurting his legacy, is this is hurting all of us. the "all of us" there doesn't mean americans. >> right. >> it means all of us who have been propping up and are invested in this administration as part of this collusion, the water carriers for donald trump in the media and the administration. that's who this is hurting. it is hurting their legacy. i the tink that's exactly the rt point. they felt invested, and they were watching donald trump hurt them. that's what they cared about far more than democracy, the capitol, the country, or their fellow citizens. >> even as of this morning, their viewers are in no better position to understand what really happened to day because, of course, despite hannity's texts, he brings meadows on last night. of course they don't talk about it. he's not asked about it. it never comes up. if you are a regular fox viewer at home, you're not getting the truth. you've been lied to for years, and you've been lied to last night. you'll continue to be lied to today. >> yeah. also, you know, the question of what it means from a media perspective, of how cozy this relationship was, that they were texting the chief of staff that, and they are hosts on fox news, saying, this is destroying the legacy of trump, that concerned about his legacy. but i can't imagine the former president is that happy that he is reading these texts from people he thinks are his allies. the way he viewed that day -- we don't have a lot of insight into what was happening in the west wing -- but from what we were hearing from people speaking to him that day, he was borderline enthusiastic about what was happening. that's what i was told by someone. but i can't imagine he is happy to see sean hannity reaching out to mark meadows, talking about what he needs to be doing. >> it is benign. can he make a statement? of course he can. he's the president of the united states. he can go to the oval office. >> the country is under attack. >> the country is under attack. it is pedestrian in relation to what is happening. >> the statement he did make, two hours later he said, you're special. we love you. he said he understood why they were angry. that was something that also stood out. >> he felt the country was under attack on his behalf, which he liked. but i don't think enough can be made of the fact that these fox anchors were acting like, as they did -- >> unpaid advisers. >> they were political enablers. nothing resembling journalists. they didn't know where the administration ended and they began. >> i will say, as we wrap up this discussion, we'll talk more about this later on also, one thing i don't want to overlook is all of this discussion is spurred on by documents and emails and texts that mark meadows turned over voluntarily, right? imagine what's in the national archives that the supreme court will weigh in on soon. imagine what could be in there. how much more we could learn here. laura, i know you also point out, this also raises questions about what he's communicating on. >> a good majority, we know, are being done on his personal cell phone. put aside the fact he's violated the national records act, he may not care about thart, but he's vitiating his claims to privilege by using his personal cell phone. >> in his book, there are conversations between him and the president on that day. >> john avalon, se cupp, laura jarrett. se, we miss you in person. >> i miss you too. >> thank you for being with us. in kentucky, the search and recovery effort this morning after the deadly tornado devastated that state and so many others. we are live in mayfield ahead. plus, the numbers that you have been waiting for on the omicron variant. what a south african study, a major one, says 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"new day" continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, december 14th. i'm john berman. brianna is off. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here with me this morning. >> thanks for having me. all the poinsettias around us this morning. >> we set them up just for you. overnight, text messages reveal that really do reframe the january 6th investigation. text messages to former white house chief of staff mark meadows from donald trump jr., from fox entertainers, from trump administration officials, even from some lawmakers, that all privately, and for a time, unsuccessfully beg to do something to stop the violence as the attack unfolded a

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