alarming text messages reveal the thoughts of some republican members of congress as january 6th unfolded. a shocking new article in the "washington post" is giving a closer look at the thousands of frantic texts retrieved from the phone log of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. joining me is the reporter who co-wrote this article. a new msnbc contributor. welcome to you. >> thank you. >> out of all of these texts that you and your colleagues uncovered, which ones did you find the most alarming? >> that's a good question, and one actually that i have yet to have been asked. i think it's more in their totality how alarming it is, that there were thousands of messages over the course of weeks leading up to january 6th