CNN: Texts to/from Rep. Mo Brooks among those received by the cable news operation

 CNN reports:

 

"There are also text exchanges with more than 40 current and former Republican members of Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. The texts include everything from plans to fight the election results to surprising and unexpected reactions on January 6 from some of Trump's staunchest allies.

After the Electoral College affirmed Biden's win on December 14, Trump's allies turned their attention to January 6: the congressional certification of the electors and the rally that Trump said on Twitter "will be wild!"

On December 21, Brooks, the Alabama congressman, wrote to Meadows and others in a group text asking whether he should engage with the media about the "formulation of our January 6 strategies."

"Does the White House want me to reply or be mum?" Brooks wrote. A staunch Trump ally running for Senate this year, Brooks gave an incendiary speech on January 6 but recently fell out of favor with Trump after suggesting Republicans should move on from 2020.

In response to CNN's request for comment, Brooks said he had "no regrets" about his speech on January 6 and that he was "shocked" by the violence. "I had no inkling," Brooks added.