corrupt congress proceedings to count electoral knowledge. mr. meadows persuade state officials to alter their election results. in georgia, for instance, mr. meadows participated on a phone call between president trump and georgia s secretary of state, raffensperger, meadows was on the phone when president trump asked the secretary of state, find the 11,780 votes to change the results of the election of georgia. liz cheney read out loud some of the texts received while the attack was underway. members of congress and others wrote to mark meadows as the attack was underway. one text mr. meadow receives
the house committee investigating the january 6th attack voting unanimously to advance a measure holding mark meadows in criminal contempt over his refusal to testify. the resolution includes a referral on the justice department. the measure comes as meadows refused to answer questions about the documents he already handed over. when the record raised 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 pile in the sand. mr. meadows testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump s action
january 6th attack with that message to mark meadows. we ll show you messages of members of donald trump administration and family and fox news hosts had for meadows in real time as the insurrection was happening. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s tuesday, along with joe, willie and me, we have our katty kay, professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and mike barnicle is here and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. we ll start with that story, incredible text messages being revealed by liz cheney. very revealing about members of congress and member of the media and donald trump s own family.
being put in place. this coup in the past of what we are looking at does not have a dramatic ending where as the coup that s happening behind the scenes now. that s where the alarm bell it s interesting how this takes front and center, the real threat of this point that s happening is not going to lose all the attention. that s why people like kevin mccarthy undermine this select committee from the beginning. they have to discredit what they know to be true and we heard text messages from members of congress. we know republicans with direct lines to the white house pleading with meadows on that day to make donald trump stop what was happening. they heard the breaking glass and the bangs on the door and
messages from both house and republicans and senate republicans. increasing what it sounds like gets a hold of congress effect to make sure that biden won t get certified on january 6th. given they have names both in the house and senate participated via text messages of what was going on, members of the committee realized that the biggest opponent perhaps may be out there in the public and it s something called indifference because of the pace of this investigation. well, i think the main concern that the committee has or the pace issue is they have to wrap this up before the midterm is a critical they think. the committee has to finish this investigation by the midterms if they run it through the midterm, they re going the run the risk of political games. but, i think their biggest concern is trying to get this