Inside the Jan 6th Investigation
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hunter Walker is an investigative reporter for Talking Points Memo. He covered the Trump White House for Yahoo news. He was at the Capitol, under attack, on January 6th 2021. And he coauthored a book with former GOP Congressman and January 6th Committee staffer, Denver Riggleman, The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th. He’s a regular on the Bill Press Pod Reporters’ Roundtable and today he and Bill hit these topics: Those Meadows texts. What the J6 Committee did not do. J6 Security failures look even worse now. The Lying GOP Congressman: George(?) Santos(?).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. |
| 0:08.1 | Happy New Year and welcome to this first podcast of 2023. |
| 0:13.4 | We start off with a bang, a blockbuster report released by our good friend Hunter Walker, investigative reporter for Talking Points memo, |
| 0:22.2 | whom you also know as a regular guest on our Bill Press Pod reporter's roundtable. |
| 0:27.3 | While digging into the work of the January 6th special committee, Hunter obtained a trove of |
| 0:32.8 | never-before-revealed texts between former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Republican members |
| 0:39.5 | of Congress, all focused on keeping Donald Trump in the Oval Office. |
| 0:45.6 | As Hunter reports, it's clear from those over 2,000 texts that at least 34 members of Congress, |
| 0:53.6 | with full support and cooperation from the White House |
| 0:56.3 | were actively plotting for weeks on how to overturn the 2020 election efforts that led |
| 1:02.9 | directly to the violent assault on the Capitol on January 6th. |
| 1:08.3 | One thing for sure, publication of the Mark Meadows text gives added weight to the |
| 1:12.8 | committee's final report, which refers Donald Trump to the Justice Department on four |
| 1:18.2 | criminal charges and calls for blocking him from ever holding public office again. |
| 1:24.1 | So, joining us today to kick off a new year of the Bill Press Pod, the man who broke the story of the Mark Meadows text, Hunter Walker. |
| 1:34.4 | Hunter Walker, happy new year and welcome to the Bill Press Pod. Welcome back, I should say. |
| 1:40.7 | Happy New Year to you, Bill. Always good to be here. |
| 1:43.7 | So, Hunter, you made a lot of news here while I was out of town over the Mark Meadows text. |
| 1:49.1 | Tell us, first of all, how did you get your hands on them? |
| 1:52.0 | And what do they show? |
| 1:54.8 | So these are the text messages that Mark Meadows provided to the select committee that was investigating the January 6th attack. |
| 2:03.7 | And, you know, I need to preface any conversation about these texts by pointing out that, you know, |
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