were more emphatic about the fool s errand trump s team was on. the president should call everyone off. it s the only path, roy texted meadows odecember 31st. while lee argued the effort was on dangerous constitutional ground. three days before january 6th, he warned, i know only that this will end badly for the president, unless we have the constitution on our side. they did not. but the trump team and a group of loyal republicans went ahead with their plan anyway. as it became clear their effort would not be successful, hundreds of trump supporters stormed the capitol in protest. as the violence was raging, roy texted meadows, fix this now. he then went to the house floor and placed the blame squarely at president trump s feet. the president should never have spun up certain americans to believe something that simply cannot be. reporter: both the offices of roy and lee did not dispute the information that we revealed in these text messages.
in the strong our job is to open and then count. open then count. that s it. that s all there is. privately, they were more emphatic about the fool s errand trump s team was on. the president should call every one off. it s the only path, roy texted mea meadows. lee argued it was on dangerous constitution ground. he warned i know only this will end badly for the president unless we have the constitution on our side. they did not but the trump team and a group of loyal republicans went ahead with their plan any way as it became clear there effort would not be successful, hundreds of trump supporters stormed the capitol in prozest as the violence was raging, roy texted meadow, fix this now. he then went to the house floor and placed the blame squarely at
republicans to vote against certifying the election. our job is to open and then count. open, then count. that s it. that s all there is. reporter: privately, they were even more emphatic about the fool s errand trump s team was on, the president should call everyone off, it s the only path, roy texted meadows on december 31st while lee argued the effort was on dangerous constitutional ground, three days before january 6th, he warned, i know only that this will end badly for the president unless we have the constitution on our side. they did not, but the trump team and a group of loyal republicans went ahead with their plan anyway. as it became clear their effort would not be successful, hundreds of trump supporters stormed the capitol in protest. as the violence was raging, roy texted meadows, fix this now. he then went to the house floor and placed the blame squarely at