Today, "The Washington Post" published thousands of text messages that the January 6 investigation obtained from key players around Trump on January 6 and in the days and weeks leading up to it. A senior Biden administration official says that Russia has added as many 7,000 troops to the Ukrainian border, with some arriving as recently as today.
CHRIS HAYES, MSNBC HOST, "ALL IN": THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW with Alex Wagner starts right now.
Good evening, Alex.
ALEX WAGNER, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Chris.
I -- my kids would bang on pots and pans for a year after the start of the pandemic.
HAYES: It was very special.
WAGNER: Yeah.
HAYES: It was very special. It felt like being part of something across distance and it uninspired something. And then like I look back on those day now and it`s like, that feels a long, long time ago.
WAGNER: We are a long way from that moment, my friend. Thank you as always.
HAYES: See you.
WAGNER: And thanks to you at home for joining us on this hour.
On December 1st of 2020, a few weeks after the presidential election, a Republican state representative in Michigan had a very odd voice mail message. We played the recordings of his voice mail message on the show before and it was obtained by a small new service called the Michigan Information and Research Service. But now, in light of new developments, this voice mail has taken an even more significance.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP, VOICEMAIL FROM TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL TO MICHIGAN STATE...
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