Mark Meadows' Jan. 6 texts remind us how much we don't know

As White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows was the gatekeeper to then-President Donald Trump. That is why, as the U.S. Capitol was under attack Jan. 6, it’s his cellphone that filled up with missives from the likes of Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity imploring Trump to do something.

By the time the attack ended, and Congress had gone back to counting the electoral votes that confirmed Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, many of those who had pleaded with Meadows to have Trump call off the insurrectionists had already...