absolute shame. reporter: a spokesman for pence declined to comment. the committee also wants to speak with fox news host sean hannity saying he texted with trump, mark meadows and others in the days surrounding january 6th. we have so many of these texts and pieces of evidence indicating that he was outside of his role as a press person acting as a political operative. reporter: publicly, hannity was saying this ahead of january 6th. a big day tomorrow. big crowds apparently showed up to the point where the west wing could hear the music and the chanting of the people that were there already. reporter: but privately, hannity sent a message to meadows the night before the insurrection reading, i m very worried about the next 48 hours. the committee wants to know why hannity was worried and what, if any, prior knowledge he may have had before the capitol riots. i want to make sure everyone knows this isn t a subpoena. we ve asked him to cooperate with us as a fact witness ou
to motivate trump to act while the capitol was under attack. to take 187 minutes to say to rioters you need to stop and go home because my vice president is in the building and is life is in danger is an absolute shame. reporter: a spokesman for pence declined to comment. the committee also wants to speak with fox news host sean hannity saying he texted with we have so many of these texts and pieces of evidence indicating that he was outside of his role as a press person acting as a political operative. publicly, hannity was saying this ahead of january 6. a big day tomorrow, big crowds apparently showed up to the point where the west wing could hear the music and the chanting of the people that were there already. but privately, hannity sent a message to meadows the night
of his role as a press person acting as a political operative. when you say that, the committee has already released one of his texts which was basically asking meadows, is it possible for the president to go out and tell people to leave the capitol in the middle of this. are there other subjects that he talks about when it comes to the spire campaign that donald trump and his allies yes there are. we have in our possession, as i say, dozens of texts relating to a variety of subjects, the plotting on the 6th, strategy about white house counsel and the like, and we d like to ask him about that. it s not about his broadcasts or his political views or anything of that nature. there are other folks on fox and other maga media channels that had relations close relationships with people in the white house and, in fact, we know laura ingraham and brian