If you recall, when Congress subpoenaed Mark Meadows, they didn’t just want his testimony, they wanted him to show up duces tecum, which, translated from Latin into legalese, means – “bring your sh*t.” And some of the things that the Committee wanted Meadows to bring were his phone records, texts, and calls.

Additionally, perhaps you might remember that Meadows was originally cooperating with the committee, meaning he was going to testify (and hopefully avoid a Bannon contempt order, which may not work as well come this Monday, given the DC Circuit Court’s opinion that executive privilege doesn’t apply to former presidents), and he was going to bring the documents. It is possible that Mark Meadows either got a head start on giving Congress those documents, or, he refused to testify but did still have the documents dropped off.

However it happened, the Committee has Mark Meadows phone records. Jamie Gangel appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room and dropped this bombshell:

“One of the important things we know is Liz Cheney also says these documents that former chief of staff Mark Meadows has handed over to the committee — let’s just repeat, he handed them over voluntarily. There was no claim of privilege. More than 6,000 pages of documents.

What Liz Cheney has also said is, those texts, those emails which were on his personal phone are, quote, ‘extremely interesting.'”

Now, why would Liz Cheney drop in a little comment like that? Well, for one, as you’ll see below, they are very interesting. And two, as this site has said before, the gold standard in evidence used to be eye-witness testimony. No more. Now, electronic records made contemporaneously to the event, whether emails, texts, or videos, are what the juries want to see. In this case, the “jury” is the Committee, who will eventually report to the people and to DOJ.

What they’re telling me is that when you look at these text exchanges, email exchanges, this is what was going on in real-time.

This is January 6th, the riot is unfolding, and people are emailing Mark Meadows. What is the importance of that? He is with Donald Trump. So the committee now has a window into what was Donald Trump doing and what wasn’t he doing. Dereliction of duty is something that many of these members have talked about, why didn’t he stop the riot? They may think they have a lot of insight into that question just by looking at these texts and emails that Mark Meadows voluntarily handed over.

As we said, the gold standard, a bombshell, a window into what Trump was and was not doing.

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