energy secretary in trump s cabinet. how this impacted what happened between november 4th and january 6th is going to be key to the committee s work. and it s interesting also because we should note the three states he was calling for, it appeared that he picked them, among other reasons, that they had republican legislatures. and one of them, trump went on to win, north carolina. he cites georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, north carolina trump won. but no one was waiting. right. for the voters to vote. they were ready to go in, send your own electors. ignore the voters. and we only have had eyes into a handful of these texts when mark meadows turned over 6,000 documents. i think this is a very key point, jake. we know you and i have both heard that in other instances where we re seeing text messages, it s not just one text
congressional record. let s talk more about this with cnn s special correspondent jamie gangel. my partner in this story as always. pleasure working with you. so what do you think is the significance of this text which was sent the day after election day, before many states had even called who won. my understanding is this is look, there are a lot of important texts the committee has. this is a very important one because it is november 4th. and aggressive, to use the word in the text, to say the least. imagine the election has not been called. the votes have not been counted. and this text message comes to mark meadows basically laying the groundwork to overturn the election. it is hard to imagine how this comes from rick perry is the longest serving governor of texas, three times. he served for two years as
wright. and remember yelling, taser, taser, taser and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. will her tears impact the jury? hello. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news this hour. in fact, we re breaking it for you right now. we are learning more about that text message that former president trump s then chief of staff mark meadows, one that outlined a way to deliver the election to trump before the votes had even finished being counted. three sources tell me and my colleague jamie gangel that members of the bipartisan house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection believe that former energy secretary and texas governor republican rick perry texted mark meadows november 4th. that s the day after the election. now multiple sources who have