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While lee argued the effort was on dangerous constitutional ground. three days before january 6th he warned i know only this will end badly for the president unless we have the constitution on our side. they did not. but the trump team and a group of loyal republicans went ahead with their plan anyway as it became clear their effort would not be successful, hundreds of trump supporters stormed the capital in protest. as the violence was raging roy texted meadows, fix this now. >> does the gentleman from texas -- >> he then went to the house floor and placed the blame squarely at trump's feet. ...

Between the 2020 election and the january 6th insurrection. they show that some lawmakers were in favor of overturning the election results until they discovered there was no evidence to back up the claims. here now is cnn's ryan nobles. >> reporter: senator mike lee of utah, and congressman chip roy of texas, two of former president trump's loyal defenders in congress, dozens of private texts to mark meadows a picture emerges how both went from aiding challenging election results to ultimately warning against it. the texts obtained by cnn show how they were trying to help initially but then r...

1st in a text message in possession of the january 6th committee. it came after weeks of begging meadows for hard evidence concerning election fraud and concern that the lack of evidence was a problem for the trump legal team. we must urge the president to tone down the rhetoric he wrote on november 9th. roy did believe there were problems with the election. in early december he went to the house floor imploring colleagues to look into the fraud. >> it's missing in action and doing nothing. >> like roy, senator lee started out hopeful there was a path to challenge the election results. early i...

Infamous press conference where they made wild, baseless claims about the election. >> president trump won by a landslide. >> lee then changed his tune, calling powell a liability and turned to touting leestman. when the plan fizzled, lee decided he was no longer on board. he texted mark meadows on december 16th, i think we're past the point we can expect anyone will do it without some direction and a strong evidentiary argument. both lee and roy ultimately chose not to join other republicans to vote against certifying the election. >> our job is to open and then count. open, then count. that'...