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Morning. still ahead, the latest from capitol hill as the house prepares to vote on whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for criminal contempt for refusing to answer questions about the january 6th attack on the capitol. plus, text messages he received in realtime from members of congress, fox news host and even the former president sons pleading for donald trump to stop the attack. "morning joe" will be right back. attack. "morning joe" will be right back

Stopped the violence by asking him to do something about it? pleading with him to do something about it. and what does it say about don jr. and the fox news anchors and all of the others? >> it says so much. the few text messages say so much. they tell us that these people understood the seriousness of this attack. they understood that the president was uniquely situated to try to stop it and he didnt stop it. it was going on for hours and posed out the blatant the hypocrisy stacks you in the fa...

Not even a former presidents chief of staff. >> i expect the justice department to move swiftly ideally with mr. meadows. as he did with mr. bannon >> and prosecute him for violating the law. and his duty as a citizen. >> the new information was detailed in documents that meadow had already handed over before he decided to stop cooperating with the investigation. claiming executive privilege. among the revelations, we learned that mr. meadows participated in meetings and calls during which the p...

Later, on her own program suggesting they werent really trump supporters. lets discuss with the director of the school of media and public affairs at george washington university, frank sezno. hes also a former cnn washington bureau chief. frank, what do you make of tonights events? theres been so much thats come forth. >> i think were going through an enormous documentation about how deep this went, how people close to the president were alarmed, panicked over this and pleading with the preside...

>> my be loved uncle john, yeah. he died yesterday and he was a really great person. our last conversation we had, one of the last ones, we were playing cards, and i was telling him that what im seeing in my er right now is so horrible and tragic, and to believe me and to get the vaccine -- >> reporter: he never did. michigans hospitalizations are at their highest since the pandemic started. health care workers in minnesota are pleading with the public to get vaccinated. in a newspaper ad saying...

Presidents own son, when the presidents namesake is unable to get through to his own father and is reaching out and pleading with the chief of staff to do something. i mean, that was really what the rest of the country was doing at that time. where was donald trump? that ultimately is the question. where was he during those hours? why was he refusing to do anything to deal with a crisis that was unfolding right before our eyes? >> to your point, why would donald trump jr. have to go through mark...

Lie america out of this, to change it, to confuse it, to erase it. so right now before we bring in our experts, i want to read to you some of these newly revealed texts from republicans who were reaching out to trumps chief of staff amidst what we know was happening. quote, they have breached the capitol. quote, mark, protesters are literally storming the capitol breaking windows. is trump going to say something? another republican writing, quote, theres an armed standoff at the house chamber do...

E.r. right now is so horrible and tragic, and to believe me and to get the vaccine. >> reporter: he never did. >> he was thinking about it, but two weeks later, he had contact with someone who was also not vaccinated, and then he got sick and he did die yesterday. >> reporter: michigans hospitalizations are at their highest since the pandemic started. healthcare workers in minnesota are pleading with the public to get vaccinated. in a newspaper ad saying, were heartbroken. were overwhelmed. >> r...

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