Texting Meadows News Today

>> hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you dont go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? >> i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i havent totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis its dicey. >> to your family and everyone, we say, thats a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see y...

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a pretty low lying area. >> that storm surge theyre preparing for, what exactly might that look like when it comes to the businesses and the homes in that area? >> reporter: well, to give you a sense of howe things look where we are right now, were at a park thats surrounded by three bays, the old tampa bay, the tampa bay and then that third bay. what theyre worried about, especially the folks in pinellas county, that storm surge is going to flood things no matter what. even if that fo...

Election and then in the heat of what you can call the fog of war on january 6. so who is sending these? we have them from a lot of different people in political spheres including more than 40 current and former members of congress who were texting meadows. there are group chats, individual chats, people sending theories about the election fraud conspiracy to meadows. and then on january 6, i want to walk through a couple of these that wed like to highlight that we think are very important becau...

We knew that already he was the white house chief of staff at the time, but throughout this period after the election, top people, members of congress, more than 40 current and former members of congress, advisers, even family of donald trump, were sending him messages with this impression that he was the person that had trumps ear, that could tell trump what to do. so i want to walk through some of these. they really are striking. one of them, ivanka trump, the daughter of the president, is tex...

Weeks after the election, things go dark until january 10th where she starts texting meadows and back and forth exchanges happen again. they are going to want to know who her best friend is. this is significant. if youre considering is there a line of demarkation between ginni thomas and clarence thomas, there is a data point which clarence thomas in a key decision was the lone holdout. . >> when they came to the tranches of documents to go to the national archives. they did despite the fact tha...

Conned, right. like when you finally realize and the shades pulled from your eyes, and you just look back at all of the different warning signs you should have picked up on. >> reporter: well stockton met with the committee for seven hours and he added that he believes this is a thorough substantive investigation and not, as some people have tried to characterize it, a political witch hunt. >> thank you very much. were joined now by a member of the january 6 select committee representative ste...

Violent assault was underway at the capitol, members who pleaded with the chief of staff to get the president to take action. dozens of texts, including from trump administration officials and members of congress, urged that the president take immediate action. i read a number of these last night at our hearing. i wont read them all today but i will read a few of them. mark, one member said, he needs to stop this now. in all caps, tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly, and tell the ...

Meadows, quote, hes got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows responded. quote, im pushing it hard, i agree. still president trump did not immediately act. donald trump jr. texted again and again. urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand, end quote. but hours passed without necessary action by the president. he knew, they all knew, even sean h...