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Congress. all in a period from election day 2020 to inauguration in january. so here to help us go through it and its a lot. is our special correspondent. jamie, these are a lot of texts and shedding a lot of light on what was happening around trump on the sixth. what are you learning? >> as you said we have obtained 2,319 text messages. these are the ones that meadows voluntarily handsed over to the committee. they are text exchanges as you said with more than 40 current and former members of c...

When he was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee 20 years ago, that was the kind of answer he could give. now hes the man in charge of deterring putin from invading. >> yep. were already seeing the cleanup. im already seeing in my text exchanges with people around the president cleanup on -- by state department. one text was, well, what he was probably referring to was if the incursion was nonmilitary, if it was cyber, then there would be a different response than an actual traditi...

Those outtakes exist and if theyre released to the public? >> i think it would be important because it would be visual evidence of donald trumps state of mind during the attack. the video compelling video has been so important in this investigation, jim. a lot of what we saw during the actual attack on january 6th was from far away or it was from, you know, from the -- what donald trump wanted you to see which was the edited version that was finally released. and if we saw the unused versions an...

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Forget the conflict and lead up to this moment, lets take it to the media and broad strokes about president biden back in january 20th. >> in this country and very likely in russia, people are wondering if president biden just gave vladimir putin a green light to launch an invasion into or around them? >> i would say they were displeased when they are those comments. it would be an understatement. one of the officials i spoke to said that he was shocked when he heard president biden drew a disti...

In other news, text exchanges reportedly show the wife of a us supreme courtjudge urged donald trumps chief of staff to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. virginia thomas, who is married to clarence thomas, is said to have sent 29 messages to mark meadows urging the trump campaign not to concede tojoe biden. im joined now by our north america correspondent david bowes. correspondent peter bowes. peter, ginni thomas is featured in a big new yorker take outjust a few weeks ago ...

Advisors of the former president, donald trump, and of course, his name most recently popped up in this series of text exchanges between the former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, and the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, ginni thomas, so it shows that kushner was at least aware of the activity that was taking place within the white house, within the campaign, and beyond as it relates to trying to overturn the election results. and its also important to keep in mind as wel...

Refusal to hear the case its inexplicable. a year later, in january 2022, the supreme court rejected donald trumps attempt to block white house records from being sent to the january six committee. records like those we are discussing early in the program. justice clarence thomas was the lone public dissenter in that order. part of the reason those cases are so relevant, at this moment, is because we now know the clarence thomass wife, ginni, was essentially, an ally to the seditious conspiracy,...

Responding to bob costa and bob woodwards reporting about jenny thomass text exchanges with former white house chief of staff mark meadows and senators elizabeth warren along with a handful of other lawmakers including the chair of the committee and jayapal. they are ramping up on chief justice thomas to recuse thames from january 6th cases going forward, to provide a written explanation for what he failed to previously recuse himself. remember, he was the one supreme court justice who wanted to...

0 to talk about going. were continuing to provide for defense capacities to the ukrainians. were talking about whats going on in both the baltic and the black sea, et cetera. theres a whole range of things that im sure hes trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. but i -- hes not -- hes an informed individual, and im sure -- not sure. i believe hes calculating what the immediate short-term and the near-term and the long-term consequences of russi...