CNN notes that multiple Fox News hosts reached out to Meadows, including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Maria Bartiromo also texted with Meadows. Tucker Carlson texted with Meadows once, but to ask a question while researching his show and the two did not connect.
While Ingraham and Kilmeade largely expressed frustration with Trump’s messaging around the Jan. 6 attack, Bartiromo can be seen sending questions the “planned to ask Trump” an hour before he gave his first interview since the election on November 29th.
Bartiromo texted Meadows at 9:21 a.m, as reported by CNN:
“You also need to spend at least half your time doing business with us,” Hannity texted Meadows. “And I’m serious. Did u ever talk to Fox. I’ve been at war with them,” Hannity wrote on December 12th, presumably discussing Meadow’s future after the Trump administration.
Read the full report on the text messages here