here with me now is cnn editor at large and politics reporter chris cillizza to discuss this further. between meadows and congressman marjorie taylor gr greene. what does it reveal? >> there are more than 2,000 texts. there a lot in there. i want to highlight a couple. this is the one you mentioned. i want you to particularly notice the date. january 17th. three days before the inauguration, 11 days after january 6th. in our private chat with only members, several are saying the only way to save the republic is for trump to call for marshall -- she means martial law. i just wanted you to tell him. they stole this election. we all know. marjorie taylor greene said in a chat with only members, members of congress are saying donald trump should call for martial law. i think this speaks to the fact that we were very close to the official transition of power, we were months removed from the election. we were just days removed from the insurrection, violent insurrection of the u.s. capitol and still members of congress including marjorie taylor greene were having conversations with the whit

chris cillizza. and given that the democrats refused, by the way, to change their policies on energy and the border that have made them so unpopulars th, what can joe do? well, he can pretend he feels your pain because he was pooroo too. oncer i grew up in a household where we lived in split-level home, three bedrooms, four kids ,mom and dad and grandpa. the i was listed i was has great pleasure in being listed as the poorest man in congress for 36 years i still had making a hell of a lot more money anybody else because i wasas getting the senator's salary. no kidding. i didn't think you should make money while you're in officee then to drive home the poverty point to drive the poverty point. he followed it up with an early morning tweet today saying i know that families are still struggling with higher pricess. i grew up in a family with the price of gas went up. we felt it. now let me understand this . the white house believes that the families seeing their savings eroded by inflation, they're seei

joining us now to talk about this, we have cnn frpriscilla alvarez and chris cillizza. >> to remind ourthey have allowed border authorities to turn people away at the u u.s./mexico border. they will end that may 23rd. this has sparked tension within the democratic party. we have moderate democrats telling the administration it is too soon and we want to see a comprehensive plan. some have joined republicans in backing legislation to block this move. there's also a lawsuit against the administration by more than 20 states to keep them from doing this. internally within the administration, they're aware they have to juggle both the feelings of people in their own party about ending this. the plans to make sure they can handle a surge of migrants as is expected when this ends. all of this is playing out in realtime. i asked homeland security secretary yesterday if they were going to delay this decision. he said they're planning accordingly and sticking to it. >> do they have a plan for what's expected if this is repealed. >> they say they do. they have released three planning scenarios on