and this is from representative rick allen of georgia. mark, thought the president might want to tweet this. i will send you the text chain between me and raffensperger. bottom line, dominion machines down in many polling places in the county. this should give the president the ammo he needs to go after raffensperger. long lines and machines down, been there, done that. but it feels like rick allen's text, i have a bunch of them here, they speak to a kind of like conspiracy theory that he seems like he and others believed that god was involved, or there was some sort of religious war going on, and that it involved everything from satellites out of italy to dominion, all conspiring to keep donald trump from being president again. did you get the sense from reviewing these text messages that these congress members believed it or they were saying it to keep trump in? >> getting at the million dollar question here. were these people just power hungry or were they true believers? and you know, i can't get in anyone else's head but i'll tell yo

how does rick allen, georgia representative rick allen pick about this, get all his information?in late november, he told meadows that there is a source that there are widespread fraud in states. next day, he texted, quote, from what i can tell so far, looks like this is high tech and foreign governments inclusion with democratic party to guarantee biden the win. again, this is not just a random facebook post, that guy is a member of the u.s. house. he felt that text with a link to and description of, and no i am not making this up, a video made by a romanian organization in which a man who says he is a former intelligence officer claims that ukraine stole the identities of 50 million u.s. -- to use them in the 2020 election. again, member of congress. he's given this to mark meadows, he's not doing this for the base. this is him being like, we got him, we got him, smoke and gun, you can install 50 million. this is a snapshot. there's a lot more where this comes from, but it brings us to political routes that we have not fully gotten to yet. what is the obvious one, which you kee

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in another exchange shows the chief of staff agreed to meet with georgia republican rick allen after congressman tells him he has a source that can prove and provide evidence that there was election fraud. and allen later tells meadows that it's actually a source that is feeding his source, before sending him a conspiracy theory. about romanians and ukrainians stealing the identities of u.s. citizens for the purpose of rigging the 2020 election for democrats. it's worth noting that some of these conversations appear to be incomplete and may be missing context. nbc news reached out to those involved for responses. it's now been more than a month since the 2022 midterm elections, and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is blaming former president trump for republican losses. >> looking back at '22, some of you may recall, i never said there was a red wave. we ended up having a candidate quality time. anybody remember who mentioned that back in august? look at arizona. look at new hampshire. and the challenging situation in georgia as well. our ability to control the primary outcome

georgia congressman rick allen has been a republican member of the house of representatives since 2015. on january 8th, two days after the attack on the capitol, congressman allen wrote this to mark meadows. mark, please know that i have prayed for president trump, his family, for you, and the entire administration. our nation is at war. it is a spiritual war at the highest level. this is not a war that can be fought conventionally. this is god's battle. and he has used president trump in a powerful way to expose the deceit, lies and hypocrisy of the enemy. the trump family and all of us have paid a heavy price to be used by the father. but the war is just beginning. we have had a major setback and people are taking sides. and my plea to my fellow believers, who want to cut and run, is judge not lest you be judge. we have all fallen short of the glory of almighty god. president trump need to be administered to. he needs the love that only jesus christ offers. this is an opportunity to confess that he can no longer fight this battle alone. he must give it to christ and god almighty will

another exchange meadows agreeing to meet with georgia republican rick allen after the congressman tells him he has a "source" that can prove there was election fraud. allen later tells meadows that his source is actually "a source that is feeding his source." then he sends meadow as conspiracy theory about romanians and ukrainians stealing identities of u.s. citizens for the purpose of rigging the 2020 election for democrats. not making this stuff up. we will note some of these conversations appear to be in complete and maybe missing context. nbc news reached out to those involved for a response as, joe, some of the texts we talked about yesterday including our running joke, yours and mine, about the italian dude with the satellite. that conspiracy theory taken very seriously by mark meadows passed on to president trump who then went to the justice department says look into the italian dude with the satellite who used the satellite to change votes from trump to biden. >> yeah. yes. speaking of running jokes. remember back in 1947 you and i come back from the war and what do we do? >> su

and now i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, representative rick allen. mr. allen: thank you, congressman lamborn, for arranging this. mr. speaker, when president roosevelt convened the inaugural celebration of national bible week as it was mentioned, it was 1941. america was still recovering from an economic collapse and across the sea war raged in europe. it seemed the whole world was she rowedded in darkness -- shrouded in darkness but roosevelt believed in -- that the bible is an eternal source of hope. we know that the bible is life changing. as i mentioned about the news of the attack, and as mentioned before, nbc was broadcasting reading of the bible. they made a monumental decision during that process. as they were broadcasting the news, during breaks they would continue to read the bible. they recognized one simple truth. there is no greater spiritual armor than the word of god. so where are we some 81 years later? the pollsters say that seven in 10 americans believe that our nation is in crisis and at the risk of collapse. there continues to be