When the House of Representatives select committee on Jan. 6 gathered to vote on criminal contempt charges against Mark Meadows for failing to comply with a subpoena for testimony, Republican Representative Liz Cheney read off a variety of text messages he received during the Jan. 6 riot.
According to The Washington Post, Fox News host Laura Ingraham texted Meadows, urging him to get former President Donald Trump to call off the mob he had asked to march to the Capitol to "stop the steal" and halt the official count of the electoral vote for the 2020 election, which Trump lost.
"Hey Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home," she wrote. "This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy."
Brian Kilmeade also had a text message for Meadows. "Please get him on TV," he wrote. "Destroying everything you have accomplished."
After the text messages were made public, Bill O'Reilly spoke out against his former network on "NewsNation" (via the Daily Mail).
