Of the issues that we re facing. i wouldn t say it is accurate right now to say that there is a dispute on this issue. the new york times reports that former president donald trump s eldest son sent the white house chief of staff a text message two days after the 2020 presidential election, that laid out strategies for declaring his father the winner regardless of the electoral outcome. that s from people familiar with the exchange. the text was sent by donald trump jr. two days before joe biden was declared the winner of the election. you will recall it took a few days for the votes to be counted. it is very simple, trump jr. wrote to meadows on november 5th, 2020, he wrote at another point, we have multiple paths, we control them all. and nbc news has not reviewed the message in question, nor did the times. the message wept on to lay out a variety of options that mr. trump or his allies ultimately employed in trying to overturn the results of the election, from legally challengin
Cheney, the vice chair of the january 6th committee, is pushing back on a report from the new york times that members of the panel are split on whether to move forward. to date, trump has not been charged with a crime and denies wrongdoing. also this morning, politico says congresswoman cheney is set to announce her campaign raised $2.9 million in the first quarter bringing her total haul for the cycle to more than $10 million. yeah. and the new york times reports that former president donald trump s eldest son sent the white house chief of staff a text message two days after the 2020 presidential election. the laid-out strategies for declaring his father the winner regardless of the electoral outcome, people familiar with the exchange said on friday. the text was sent by donald trump jr. two days before joe biden was declared the winner of the election. it s simple, trump jr. wrote to meadows on november 5th, 202, he
We re learning new details about how former president donald trump s son, don jr., may have been involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election. a cnn exclusive report reveals trump jr. texted mark meadows detailing steps that he thought would ensure donald trump a second term in office. zach cohen joining us right now. what more did you find out? hour team breaking this story last night about a text exchange between donald trump jr. and mark meadows. meadows junior texted meadows on november 5th and proposing several ideas about how to
Return the 2020 election. he makes clear it s simple, we have multiple paths we control them on. the first thing i want to point out is the date of this text exchange, november 5th, 2020, that is two days after the presidential election. before the election was certified for president joe biden. meaning votes were still being tallied as donald trump jr. was pushing these ideas about how to overturn the election and keep his father in power. the second thing i want to point out is the ideas themselves. this text exchange really foreshadowed what would become the trump team s strategy over the next several weeks and months. we saw the mention of fake electors, the mention of filing lawsuits and audits to delay certification in certain states and we even see a mention of january 6th being sort of the ultimate deadline for the last chance to overturn the election. it really mirrors what the trump team put into action in the weeks that followed. the last thing is obviously, i want to point
Way to the top. so if we re talking about the king s court. let talk about the royal fool this is cnn reporting. nbc news has not confirmed that don junior texted mark meadows, the chief of staff to donald trump, ideas for overturning the 2020 election. now here is the key. he didn t do that on january 4th, 5th or even january 6th. he did it days after the election. just after the election. it very simple trump junior texted to meadows on november 5th adding later, if we have multiple paths, we control them all. don junior s strategy was nearly identical to what played out filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying results and having houses put forward slates of trump advisors. we re seeing planning. we re not saying he wrote the emails. royal fool but sending them out to mark meadows. your thoughts?