read a series of frantic text messages from january 6th aloud. messages pleading with meadows to convince his boss to do something about this. barricades, attacking officers, smashing through windows, and pushing through doors. as the violence continued, one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows. quote, he s got to condemn this shut asap. the capitol police is not enough, donald trump, jr., texted. meadows responded, quote, i m pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump, jr., texted again and again, urging action by the
which fox news personality he was in communication with. they told us about which members of the trump family meadows was in touch with. those members of congress have still not been revealed, but you can bet that it will be a big part of this investigation as they go forward. laura and christine? all right, ryan, thank you for that. now, one of the more remarkable messages to meadows came from one of those unnamed lawmakers. as congressman schiff pointed out, the person was more concerned about failing to flip the election than the riot that happened the day before. this is the last message i want to highlight, again, from a lawmaker in the aftermath of january 6th. if we could cue graph number 3. yesterday was a terrible day. we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i m sorry nothing worked. the day after a failed attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power through violence, an elected lawmaker
him about privileged information, he had no choice but to not show up. you think that s the case even when he s talking about conversations that he s relation conversations he had with potus. he says, i talked to trump and trump thinks x. trump thinks the vp can flip the election. you think he hasn t waived privilege there? he can t waive privilege. the only person that can waive privilege is the president. biden has waived the privilege. meadows can t waive the privilege that exists with the president. i don t think there is a credible claim that meadows has waived anything that he can t waive. i hope that s not too legalistic, but it s kind of like attorney/client privilege. the privilege of law is with the client, not the attorney. the attorney can t waive that privilege for the client. here meadows can t waive that privilege to trump. trump standing by his right to assert this privilege, and we ll have to wait to see what the
information. you know, that s right. i do think that the committee has made a point of talking about how many dozens or hundreds of people already have cooperated. it does seem that they have a number of text or email communications, other communications that they ll be piecing together to try to have an understanding of do they have half of a conversation and not the other half. yeah. but ultimately they are facing two challenges. what will people willfully turnover and how much time do they have? they know it s a time they re racing against. we know meadows did not talk about the text messages on fox but he did on newsmax. weepized. cherry-picked to paint a picture of the president. so give us the full picture. margaret talev, political analyst, thank you so much. the most pivotal swing vote senator joe manchin is signalling major changes would be needed for him to support president biden s sweeping
up to january 6th. and on january 6th, people pleading with him to do something to convince donald trump to tell his supporters to back away from that riot at the capitol. now, this is all part of the committee s case that they re building for this criminal contempt referral. yes, the committee believes that meadows is in contempt, but it s not ultimately their decision. it will ultimately be a decision of a jury of meadows peers. his situation is different than steve bannon or jeffrey clark, former d.o.j. official. he was chief of staff. he worked in the executive branch. there may be things he knows about that he can t share because it s protected under executive privilege, but the committee believes that he is using that in too broad of a sense, and the fact that he s handed over these documents, that he s talked about it in the book that he has written makes him available to them to ask questions. this is what pete aguilar, a member of the committee told me about where they believ