we'vead seen a federal judge weh in on illegality of john eastman's team, california federal judge david carter wrote back in march the illegality of the plan was obvious. dr. eastman and president trump launched adr campaign to overtu ala democratic election, an actn unprecedented in american history. their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower. it was a coup in search of a legal theory, end quote. tell me what you make now, given that we've all seen that, what do you make of these new eastman emails? >> it is just more evidence that is taking what was once a fuzzy picture and bringing it into focus. what i was this plot? i think we are now seeing what it was. it was an effort to reach out ts some of these swing states, if you can knock off a couple of them, you can change the outcome of theth election, and flip the outcome. one of the things that is challenges to prove in any public corruption case isn't so much the what happened part of it, that part can be relatively easy, it is the intent. was there criminal intent to commit a crime here? and i think one of these text message

and john eastman obliges. he writes back that the legislature could, quote, simply affirm what appears to have been the result of the possible the popular vote, untainted by illegal votes. eastman says the republican legislators could cite their concerns with pennsylvania's absentee ballot procedures and then use historical data to, quote, discount each candidates totals by a pro rated amount based on the absentee percentages that those candidates otherwise received. it continues, then, having done that math, you be left with significant trump lead the would bolster the argument for the legislature adopting a slate of trump electors. that would help provide some cover. and quote. if the pennsylvania legislature would just create some new numbers showing the trump actually won, that would provide some cover for the plot to keep him in power. illegally. it's magic. just toss out a bunch of your opponents ballots and you win. throw the fraudulent votes are the illegal votes or all the votes from california, and it

you see this interstate conspiracy -- john eastman is a part of it.terstate communication, saying, you know, here is how to sends to washington a completely fake set of electors. and it is for more than one state. >> absolutely. >> it seems like fani willis has almost the entire, t in georgia, the entire version of the conspiracy. including donald trump's phone calls to the secretary of state. >> that is right, lawrence. there's two separate issues. one is the local investigation with the local folks there, including fake electors that were appointed. and that were potentially appointed by republicans there. that looks, potentially, criminal. and the question you are raising is, how high does it go? do any of these fake electors get contacted by trump or eastman? or people close to him? the the news today is that the electors are cooperating. it's not any surprise that the fake electors are participating. they did not sign up to participate in the crime. all they did was, i suppose, get together and fly to washington d.c. and override the results of t

caitlin polantz joins me now. >> john eastman has been fighting over this for a long time in court. ion that we're getting. eastman in this court filing last night as he's looking at individual emails and arguing to keep them private is saying that there are two that the house select committee wants, and still has not seen, two documents that include handwritten notes from former president trump about information that he thought might be useful for the anticipated litigation and so we have never before known whether or not there was actual documentation of trump saying with his own hand this is what i want to do, here the house is learning the public is learning that sort of documentation exists. now, this is something that is in court at this time and so eastman is arguing this is part of the attorney/client privilege, should be confidential, there is also communications he has with six conduits to president trump who also knew what trump's thinking was at that time. there is documents of those. he wants to keep those private as well. and so now a judge is going to look at this, and

and that is where john eastman comes into the picture.an, of course, is a lawyer, and a die hard trump ally who was the architect behind much of the attempted coup and in fact he even spoke at trump's january 6th rally at the lips, the one where

it's very explicit in the video you played of john eastman and now we know that it's an argument thatbeing made on behalf of trump himself according to what eastman is saying in these court filings. >> i mean, ben rhodes, betsy just laid out what is reportable and evidence based in support of a criminal conspiracy. how much do you think we already know about what the 1/6 committee is going to represent and what everyone at this point sort of surprises and clearly under investigation by doj as far as we know? >> well, i mean, some of this was obviously hiding in plain sight. we experienced the propaganda and misinformation campaigns online. we saw john eastman out there making these wild claims. i think the fact that roger stone has a group text read with fascist people with the stop the steal movement against something we knew. i think what the committee has done and what the reporting has shown is that underneath all of that there was stitching that held this enterprise together at the behest of donald trump who sat on top of this enterprise. so everything that we are seeing through

it's not the way america works. >> but it's the way that john eastman and donald trump tried to work,o read to you something that is -- is in "the washington post" reporting, this is a quote from congressman jamie raskin. eastman wasn't doing anything that trump wasn't doing himself. congressman raskin told me, they were both trying to get officials in the electoral process to substitute a counterfeit for the actual vote totals. eastman was seeking to implement a new mathematical calculation contrived to produce a trump win in pennsylvania. this shows the country one more strategic booby trapped that was improvised by trump's team that can sit there to use by bad faith actors in future elections. i guess, neal, it sounds like the committee in its public utterances have tied trump to all of eastman's conduct. is that what you hear? >> that is -- that's the way i read it and i would say it's not just the committee and also judge david carter in california reviewing the committee's submission. he first called eastman's effort a coup in search of a legal theory is then the title of that t

and that is where john eastman comes into the picture. eastman, of course, is a lawyer, and a die hard trump ally who was the architect behind much of the attempted coup and in fact he even spoke at trump's january 6th rally at the lips, the one where trump incited the insurrection. >> all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, and americans will find out whether they have control of the government or not. we no longer live in a self governing republic if we cannot get the answer to this question. this is bigger than president trump. it is a very essence of our republican former government and it has to be done. and anybody that is not willing to stand up and do it does not deserve to be in the office. >> all right, so, that is what eastman was saying publicly. but more notably is the work that he summoned was doing behind the scenes. he altered the now infamous coup memo, where he actually urged then vice presiden

john eastman, he wrote in these emails about tossing out absentee ballots. he actually asked one republican state lawmaker about the need for cover. okay? i am a mere civilian, joyce. when i look at this, i think, okay, this is hugely damaging. what is it? because thus far, nothing seems to stick. >> we don't usually see people in that bout of criminal conspiracy in the form of innocuous legal letters and requests among well heeled lawyers and people working in elections and working on behalf of political parties. but this is absolutely a roadmap for a conspiracy. it is clear that eastman is doing this after doing this, that trump has lost the election. and he is sort of playing a game with matt. how many ballots do we have to throw out in order to win? it is really very reminiscent of what went on in georgia, when trump made his infamous phone call to secretary of state brad raffensperger and asked for what's just one more vote than the total that joe biden had won the state by. so, this is the number of votes i need you to find. 11,870. it's easy math game

these new court documents show that donald trump communicated directly with right-wing lawyer, john eastmans to overturn the 2020 presidential election. these documents even include hand written notes between trump and eastman. while we don't know what those notes specifically say it's part of an ongoing court case between the january 6th committee and john eastman because the committee really wants to get possession of the documents and e-mails from eastman because they view eastman as central to their investigation into how -- how the election was overturned. now, you might remember -- excuse me -- how people fought to overturn the election. now, you might remember john eastman as the lawyer who a federal judge said was more likely than not part of a crime with donald trump in their plans to try and overturn the election. there's been no charge there, but this is an ongoing case over documents that the committee believes is necessary for its investigation. >> all right, annie grayer, part of our all-star team covering the fall out of january 6th and the investigation. thanks for joining m

plus, new e-mails reveal more about how trump lawyer john eastman tried to convince red states to discard thousands it of ballots and declare trumpet winner. former attorney general eric holder joins me on that and the new book about endangered voting rights and america's new history of the shocking brutality by americans on indigenous children. "the reidout" continues after this. children "the reidout" continues after this hon! the weathertech's here. ♪ weathertech is the ultimate protection for your vehicle. laser-measured floorliners... no drill mudflaps... cargoliner... bumpstep... seat protector... and cupfone. ♪ what about my car? weathertech. as someone with hearing loss states to discard thousands it this. hat a co nfusing states to discard thousands it this getting hearing aids can be. that's why i founded lively. affordable, high-quality hearing aids with all of the features you need, and none of the hassle. i use lively hearing aids and it's been wonderful. it's so light and so small but it's a fraction of the cost of the other devices. they cost thousands less. it's insanely u

john eastman is the classic buffer as this each is going on, he continues to bother people. -- he askspence to continue even though the capital is under siege. at one point, one of mike pence 's people emails him and says, because of your bolt -- we are under siege. he he continues, yet he purses. to me, john eastman is the key to the connection between, if there is any connection to the season and donald trump. he was working with him. to the extent he claims client privilege it is unusual. >> it is not our type. >> there is no attorney client privilege for a crime or a fraud. that is the crime fraud exception. the court already concluded that these claims of privilege or a no go. in fairness to the court and in fairness to eastman, we have never really been here before where there is a siege being investigated and we are determining whether or not the communications with the president may have been attorney-client privilege. we're doing this for the first time, sadly, because of january six. >> there's a process where the judge will look at it and see if this applies, right? >> we do

eastman played a significant role in stoking false claims of voter fraud. and claimed that john pence had the authority to reject joe biden. pence ultimately rejected eastman's plan but his role in this ideal shows how close this country was to a real constitutional crisis. this may not be the last time we hear about eastman or his emails. there is an additional 20, 000, sorry, 27,000 pages, of his documents that remain in dispute. which may be still be turned over to the committee in a later day. joining me now is daniel goldman, a former u.s. attorney for the district of new york. he former worked as -- during the first impeachment of donald trump. danielle, good to see you this. morning let us talk about all of these texts. we have seen leaks and texan audio recordings in the last week and we have also heard from the january six committee that they are going to start public hearings on june 9th. you have been through this before. what does this all mean? >> it means that we are getting a sneak peek into what's kind of evidence the january six committee has. i understand that

quote, john eastman has some really interesting research on this. the good news is that eastman is proposing an approach that unlike what sydney powell has proposed could be examined very quickly. a judge ruling trump and eastman more likely than not committed crimes in trying to overturn the election. it was trump praising eastman during his january 6th speech. >> john is one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country and he looked at this and he said, what an absolute disgrace that this could be happening to our constitution. and he looked at mike pence, and i hope mike is going to do the right thing. i hope so. i hope so. because if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. >> trump is also under criminal investigation in georgia, and that drone seems to be closing in on the fake electors plot with some of those frauds cooperating. the d.a. is reportedly investigating whether the pro-trump electors in georgia had any knowledge that their actions may have been a component of a broader potentially illegal plot. the committee has so muc

because a federal judge in california did announce, in his finding, that after litigating the john eastman email issue, that there was evidence by a preponderance of the evidence, 51%, that donald trump and john eastman committed two felony crimes together. so, now i suggest that ups the ante on the mccarthy of the world, if they decide to refuse to testify against donald trump, when a federal judge has already announced by a preponderance -- that actually constitutes to federal felonies in and of itself, if you refused to come forward and talk about the crimes that have been committed against the united states. accessory after the fact and misfortune of a felony. which we haven't talked about a lot. that comes directly into play, because a crime has been committed that is cognizable by a court of the united states, and you can seal it? which is wet mccarthy and the others would be doing if they refused to testify. you have committed a three-year federal felony. >> we've also got evidence, in some of the letters, of just the degree of plotting that was happening. particularly this one sort

court documents came in a new court filing, part of a case between the january 6th committee and john eastmanly wants documents that eastman has as part of its investigation because eastman was very central to this plan of overturning the election. you might remember eastman as the lawyer who a federal judge called -- said was more likely than not to have planned a crime after the election with trump. now, no charge has been made, but this is an ongoing court case that the committee really wants documents from. >> fascinating stuff. thank you for that. >>> next, oil tanks sitting nearly empty in new york harbor fueling warnings that diesel prices are about to skyrocket. >>> and stanley tucci steps out of italy, and explores how italian migrants have explored the food scene in his dadopted scene of london. >> mashed potatoes here, scallops, just going to go to the grill. >> two minutes on the grill, and then it's time for some pyrotechnics. >> this is dangerous, yeah. >> that's nice. >> so now a flame on the top, and the two main ingredients. >> that's like a candy, practically. >> it's quite

in a new court filing, right wing lawyer john eastman says a pair of notes from trump discuss information useful for their i election lawsuits. eastman claims he was in touch with three trump campaign staffers and three white house staffers about the effort. let's bring in elliot williams. thank you for being here. if this paper trail shows trump had direct input on how to carry out the attempt to overturn the election, how significant is that? >> it is significant, ana. big picture, if someone is representing a client as an attorney, their entire client/attorney privilege, there's an exception which is that your conversations can't be protected if they're being used to shield fraud or criminality. that's the question at issue here. look, this judge in this case, and we've been to this party before, is quite suspicious of the communications and conduct of both trump and eastman. i'm not seeing where anything is new in this pleading they fail filed. it's going to be more appealing to the court. >> in fact, it was this particular judge who said that trump and eastman were, quote, more likel

we will focus on trump's lawyers, people like rudy giuliani and john eastman. for more on these efforts, we are joined by michael teter, the managing director of the 65 project. michael, thank you so much are joining us. tell us about the mission of the 65 project, and what you hope to achieve with it? >> the 65 project was organized hold accountable the lawyers that sought to overturn elections in 2020. they have a responsibility to the public and to the profession to make sure that they are telling the truth to the court, that they are not engaging in fraudulent, bogus lawsuits. the effort to overturn the elections is the most egregious example of what a lawyer should not be doing. we need to hold them accountable and create a system of deterrence to stop lawyers from engaging in that behavior in the future. >> let's focus on ted cruz here in a moment. the complaint and gets with their careers, fog but -- widespread voting fraud and his participation in a lawsuit protesting the 2020 election results in pennsylvania. how did ted cruz crossed a line from, let's

i'm sure john eastman is not the only person with handwritten notes from trump, but this puts a lot ofand get ground breaking evidence, something that grabs the attention of people, because i will tell you when you talk to voters out in wisconsin, out in pennsylvania and some of the states, even democrats who are appalled by what happened on january 6th, this is not something that they bring up regularly. they're talking about the cost of living. they're talking about the cost of gas. things that impact them on a daily basis. yes, they are concerned about what happened, but these hearings that happened in june have got to grab their attention to matter. >> so you make a critical point about the hearing. we know the committee is doing meticulous work, and in addition to trying to get the documents from eastman, they're fighting for others, they want to have a conversation about with several of their own house republicans. one of them from the state of georgia, the january 6th committee, says he led a tour of folks through the capitol on the day before on january 5th. some constituents w

john eastman, this is the attorney who wrote this memo detailing the plan for vp pence on january 6thled in a court filing overnight that he had some direct correspondence with former president trump about overturning the 2020 election including handwritten notes from trump. eastman and his team are arguing that the committee should not have access under attorney/client privilege, but this could be obviously some crucial evidence here. the importance from your perspective? >> well, john eastman has been fighting, complying with the committee's request to get to the bottom of what led up to the attack on the capital on january 6th. every step of the way. so he has consistently argued that his information should not be able to be turned over, and he has not cooperated in the committee's investigation. he obviously maintains and has in his possession knowledge and documents that are highly relevant to the committee's investigation. it's particularly his communications directly with the white house and obviously his involvement in crafting a strategy to overturn the election. >> all right

just to remind our viewers, john eastman was a former president trump's legal advisor, and he allegedlyent a note to vice president pence at the time encouraging pence to deny electoral counts from states that biden won. and because of this, the committee originally requested a round 100,000 pages of emails related to his work. for trump. eastman later claims that the content in his emails, argue that executive privilege sued the committee. and now his lawyer on friday, said according to the committee, the 10,000 files of those emails will be released to the committee. >> wow, ali 10,000 emails. i also want to, know how many do these new letters matter? as long as they keep our propping up trump's big lie. i will ask you go lowell. the white house correspondents dinner was back for the first time recently. comedian -- hosted the star studded event. he worked at everybody, including the president. >> president biden's lack of filter does get into hot water sometimes. he caused a hue international instant saying that that vladimir putin should be removed from power. it was very upsetting

more than 10,000 pages of emails from john eastman are being handed over to the committee.al for trump's coup. there is also news of a public hearings set for june. congress men said they will expose the worst presidential political crime in american history. insider senior and order, katie tubman, washington post national political reporter -- and opinion columnist at the boston globe. it's good to see you all. rene, i'll start with you. there is so much evidence that we in the media, that the public has seen, regarding 16. there still is a need for a narrative that is going to string this all together, and put it in context. specifically, for americans who may not have been paying attention to every piece that has dropped bit by bit. how much power will these public hearings hold for the american people, and how does the committee make sure they get this right? >> you know, i think what it reminds me of is when i was a kid and my grandfather was glued to the television watching the watergate hearings. he wasn't the only american who was doing that. that is what drove home

the meeting comes as a recent court filing revealed another trump attorney, john eastman, received twoen notes from the president in an effort to overturn election results. still to come on "pbs news weekend"... the real price haiti paid for freedom from slavery and why it's still costing the country today. and... the painful history of native american children forced into one missouri boarding school. ♪ >> this is "pbs news weekend" from weta studios in washington, home of the "pbs newshour," weeknights on pbs. geoff: the island nation of haiti often makes headlines in the midst of crisis. but there's less attention to the factors underlying its status as the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, and one of the most unstable. "the new york times" has conducted an unprecedented investigation into those root causes, and is putting a harsh spotlight on haiti's former colonizer, france. ali rogin has more. ali: to learn more about this sweeping investition, i'm joined by catherine porter. she's the toronto bureau chief of "the new york times," and she's been covering haiti since its d

giuliani also worked with another lawyer, john eastman, and they were seen together at the infamous rallyaid this. >>over the next ten days we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent. if we're wrong we'll be made a fool of. but if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail. so let's have trial by combat! >> there you have an individual talking about sending their opponents to jail if they hold onto power that we now know they were illegally trying to hold onto power. they tried to stage a coup and talked about combat and went and staged combat against police and called for the assassination of mike pence and others. trump's exception to all this is well documented. now giuliani has found a reason at the last minute to bail today. instead of this witness testifying, he's been busy, of course, maintaining his desire to get on tv any which way. that includes taping these online cameo videos like this. >> this is rudy giuliani, and the message you want me to deliver is the employees in the field staff of associates want to thank you for your honesty and devot

john eastman helping the plat strategy for overturning the election. joining me is evan perez. they tried to shield this under attorney/client privilege. they would have handwritten notes between the president and this lawyer. >> reporter: this is a time when there are documents with donald trump, you know, directly saying the strategy that he wanted his lawyers to pursue in order to try to block the inauguration of the duly elected president, president biden. and what eastman is doing here, he's fighting over hundreds of documents at the january 6th committee, a judge has said should have access to, he says this is protected under attorney/client privilege. he said a lot of communications were through aides, campaign aides, aides in the white house. but, for the first time we are learning, he is saying he's got obviously direct communications with the former president but also hand-written notes that lay out some of this strategy. the issue for eastman is a judge has already ruled that some of these documents that the january 6th committee wants, which would normally be shield

a list of people on the subpoenas that the prosecutors want documents with or from, giuliani, john eastmanocused fast-moving investigation from the justice department looking into in interactions with the trump campaign. >> katelyn, thank you so much. >>> new reporting from cnn on ukraine. multiple officials tell me and my colleagues that the biden administration is preparing to approve the shipment of long-range rocket systems known as mlrs to ukraine. these are powerful weapon, more powerful than the u.s. and its allies have sent so far. ukrainian officials have been pleading for nato to provide these launch -- multiple launch rocket systems. they can fire a barrage of rockets hundreds of kilometers much further than the artillery ukraine already has. the delivery could be part of a larger package to ukraine which could be announced as soon as next week and it comes as u.s. officials tell me that russian forces are making some significant gains in the east in recent days. >>> just ahead on cnn, the uniquely american tragedy in texas. parents' grief turning to anger as authorities in texa

appoint a slate approach from election, which you might remember was also the basis of trump lawyer john eastman'splot. during this time, kept made an effort to publicly defend himself, mostly honestly, but just throwing the republican secretary of state, raffensperger, out of the bus. get this, here's a statement. he releases it back then, reading in part, quote, georgia law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. the secretary of state, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over the elections that cannot be overridden by executive order. of course, we already know that trump was targeting raffensperger as well. on december 5th, the same day that he called camp, mark meadows tried to get through to the georgia secretary of state, again. meadows texting him, quote, mister secretary, can you call the white house switchboard for a call, your voice mail is full. the white house put raffensperger, who was clearly backing their calls in the back burner, because he didn't have a new strategy. the same with trump made those calls, his lawyer, rudy giuliani, went in person,

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american presidential elections and it would be an enormous coincidence if she is pushing that and john eastman, her husband's former law clerk, was pushing that exact same strategy. what makes one think of is one is pros cue torely minded, and i tend to be that way, it is not a coincidence. the other option is a conspiracy. so there is a lot of smoke here. we don't know what ginni thomas was doing, but she should be questioned about that, someone with the ability to compel answers with a grand jury subpoena if she won't do it voluntarily, about where she got this idea, who educated her about it, who all was involved. it's not that she necessarily was involved in anything criminal. she may not have been. appearances can be misleading. because this is very similar to this key scheme that eastman was pulling, getting her testimony is just critical. >> so, where would that proper criminal investigation be, joyce, given this touches on arizona, she's in d.c., there's an investigation in georgia, there's main justice. and what does chief justice roberts have to do here, because there is not a great

and so what i will be looking for is those conversations between donald trump, john eastman, rudy giuliani. some of them at the higher levels of planning. was this just a plan? was this just a bunch of little efforts. that all came together? or was this part of one coordinated plan? those are some of the things i would be looking to hear. and i don't expect them to focus on that aspect, based on the witnesses that they have called, and the sum of the reporting that we are hearing these days. >> what's your take on this reporting that former white house chief of staff met with republican congressman scott perry, and supposedly went back to his office and burned papers! is that not potential lee a criminal act? one might think that this is white house papers and he is destroying them? >> that is true. if this is true, you wanna start with that premise. if this is truth, you want someone to talk about it under oath and really push. it but i think it is potentially really criminal. and you have to think about how unusual that is. it's really strange that someone would set a fire in the white h

speak of january 6th, the media had reported that john eastman tried to overturn the election by tryingate states won by biden to endorse alternate slates of trump electors. now the denver post has obtained e-mails with eastman telling a state rep just use a made-up formula, and you'd be left with a significant trump lead. that would help provide some cover. i know the media obsess on every single january 6th development, but that sounds like a pretty brazen scheme. >> it does, but at the same time it has become a common belief on both sides now that american elections are stolen and illegitimate. democrats believe overwhelmingly the incoming press secretary, for example, has a said the 2016 presidency was stolen through fraud. so if you believe the 2020 election was stolen like eastman does, going to court and trying to convince legislate to haves that you're right, i -- legislators, i personally don't think it's a positive thing because i don't think the ed was there. they tried and failed, and they walked out peacefully on january 20th. yes, there was a riot on january 6th, he wasn't

of course, she knows john eastman. he clerk for her husband.uthor of this scheme to have states select new slates of electors that were fake, fictitious, weren't the slates properly elected. it's worth inquiring into what she knows and what conversations they had. garrett, the last thing is that eastman himself filed a pleading in court last night. in that pleading, he is trying to protect a number of his emails claiming they are privileged. he is conceding he had direct contact with president trump and indirect contact through six other people. he doesn't identify who they are. in the weeks leading up to january 6. >> he lost a couple of court cases on those emails. there's other january 6 news that came out yesterday afternoon regarding georgia representative barry loudermilk. they wrote, we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the capitol complex on january 5. the complex was closed then, as you and i know. what's the significance? >> there's a view -- this is something that has been talked about over the la

that they collected the records like these text messages from mark meadows, the emails from john eastmanthousands of documents from the national archives from the trump white house. thompson said they have learned information about the role that these members of congress may have played in the days leading up to january 6th. and january 6th itself. and the committee wants to give them an opportunity to explain that conduct. so to jamie's point about filling in gaps here and asking them exactly what role did you play here almost trying to offer them the opportunity to give their side of the story, the committee believes that's important. and so that's part of the reason that they're issuing this subpoena, because they just have been reluctant to do so. i think the committee is is saying we have information that is valuable to our investigation, and you can either be a part of it or not, but we're going to present it anyway. >> let me read the statement we got from chairman bennie thompson. the select committee has learned several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investig

>> senator -- we learn emails from pro trump loner john eastman who spearheaded the plot to overturne election, jody's attempted to get pennsylvania's gop state legislator to certify and alter mid-state of electors for trump, even using the word cover, that was his word to provide some cover to the donald trump campaign. your reaction to that revelation? >> well, i would say what charles said, a lot of this has leaked out, that has leaked out and it's stunning to me what the plan was, and again, as was said, how close they came to pulling it off. and, you know, i would say this i agree that opinions are baked and. with a lot of americans, but i really hope, that there's a whole group of americans who kind of said, well, maybe this, maybe that. they look at this is this committee, does a good job, and so far i think they have, and they tell the story of what happened and what could've happened to our democracy maybe this is an opportunity to make this issue a huge issue in the next election, along with all of this replacement theory, all of these god awful things. we need to elect let

now we hear reports from politico that john eastman, a lawyer advising the president, was calling the pennsylvania lawmakers and asking them to retabulate the vote. it sounds very much like that raffensperger call from former president trump, find me 11,800 plus votes, the exact number needed. in both of these cases, is this illegal? >> i want to see more of the evidence. but it's certainly what we would call when i was a prosecutor, there's a predicate -- >> enough to start investigating? >> exactly. to start an investigation. it's extremely disturbing to see what we know about what mr. eastman did, what jeffrey clark did at the united states department of justice, what mr. meadows was doing from the white house. these are all things i think obviously need to be investigated. especially for those people who are lawyers. even there are not criminal sanctions, there need to be bar sanctions. real questions asked about whether or not their ability to continue to practice law should be examined. they did things inconsistent with what officers of the court are supposed to do. >> you descr

heated elements as well on the investigation into the insurrection after a protracted legal lawyer john eastman january six committee. so this is happening at the guards reporting that the january six committee in fact is expected to deliver letters requesting voluntary testimony from a least a dozen cure republican lawmakers. including house minority leader kevin mccarthy who adamantly by the way refused to cooperate with the committee earlier this year. even after telling the public that he would. >> would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th, if you are asked by an outside committee? >> sure. next question. >> all of this of course unfolding with less than five weeks before the january 6th hearings are slated to begin as early as tonight with me now talk about all of this former u.s. attorney harry lippman. harry, it's great to talk to you about this. let's break all of this down. because you're still seeing voluntary testimony being asked for by the committee. my question is when you have folks on mike mccarthy publicly on the record saying yes

nominee, is even if they lose the involvement after all, we learned this week that trump lawyer john eastman advising another pennsylvania lawmaker to do just, that toss out thousand of absentee votes to create new math. pennsylvania republicans are also in caniption in the senate race. kathy barnette, a self-professed ultra mager, who has risen in the polls fueled by her compelling personal story of being born in rural alabama in extreme poverty to a mother who was 11 years old and a victim of it rape. she's upending the race with tv doctor mehmet order and david mccormick who has tried to play up his maga bona fide with america first canned day. republicans are worried about her electability because she has an electronic trail of hideous tweets targeting lgbtk and muslims. barnette asked twitter followers to pray as she was about to board a plain with a lensians, true story, but she's also been attacked from the right for her twitter posts confirming the existence of systemic racism. republicans are hand-wringing over the prospect of throwing away the seat being vie kated by tax cuts pat t

we know that central to the questions are rudy giuliani, john eastman, bernie caring. election saying what can we do to flip this? what does that tell you abou ju department is being? >> they need to come up when when they're look agent the lawyers and the efforts to subvert the elections, what would the potential criminal culpability be? what's the theory of the case? one angle they might look at is whether this fits into a broad conspiracy to defraud the united states. that's something that you remember that was the theory of the mueller investigation. this big conspiracy statute. that might be something they're looking at. coming back for a minute also to the january 6th committee inquiry, one thing with respect to process that i question, and i understand from a news perspective that we want this information to be coming out, i do question whether the question by releasing from time to time the drips and drabs of what people are going to say is taking air out of the eventual testimony. we don't know what the witnesses are going to be in the public testimony, and i

and so what i'll be looking for is those conversations between donald trump and john eastman and rudyliani, some of those things at the higher levels of planning. was this a plan? was this just a bunch of little efforts that all came together or was this part of one coordinated plan? those are some of the things i'll be looking to hear and i do expect them to focus on that aspect of things, based on the witnesses they have called and some of the reporting that we're hearing these days. >> what's your take on this reporting that former white house chief of staff met with republican congressmen scott perry and supposedly went back to his office and burned papers? is that not potentially a criminal act? one would think that that's white house records and he was destroying them. >> if that is true -- so you always have to start with that premise. is it true? that's why you'd want to have somebody testify under oath and really push it. but yes, i think it is potentially absolutely criminal. and you also have to realize just how unusual that is. it's very, very strange that someone would se

it's what his lawyer john eastman advocated for, his infamous cool memo, assistant attorney general jeffreyclark suggested it in a letter he want to send to officials in georgia into every other swing state. it's with doug mastriano, the republican nominee for governor of pennsylvania, wanted his state to do too. all of these people, in donald trump's orbit, won a republican controlled state legislatures in states where joe biden won, to pull off the coup by telling the voters that the politicians, not the people who actually voted, they decide who gets elected president. they were going to ranch that power away from the citizens, now, this is obviously a ludicrous idea that's totally offensive to our notions of democracy in the rule of law. first of all, state legislators are bound by the very laws they pass, in the states the law says that the winner of the popular vote gets the electoral slate. but here is where things get interesting, there is a fringe link theory called the independent state legislature doctrine that supports the idea that state legislators can just be like, no, no we

in california, judge david carved her, rule as a matter of law he found that donald trump and john eastmane together. and he found by a preponderance of the evidence. so now mccarthy has nowhere to run, because if he refuses to comply with the subpoena, in his zeal to conceal donald trump's crimes, he absolutely exposes himself to committing the crime of this person of a felony because, not only is the crime cognizable in the court of united states, but a judge has called nice did. and i had to look at that word to make sure with the appropriate past tense so mccarthy will be violating that federal statute if he continues to defy the subpoena and concealed all transcribes. >> i am writing down all these legal terms, like i am going to law school my final just on the corner. let's talk quickly about any banks. of course this idea that he requested a present presidential pardon. wouldn't that in and of itself implicate him? >> it would. you don't need a pardon if you engage in, i don't know, a tourist visit or a peaceful protest. you need a pardon if you have committed a crime in the supreme

john eastman on attorney in the architect and who fought to have pence overturning the election on this fateful day, is seeking to stop the january six committee from obtaining to handwritten notes that he allegedly received from the former president his self. the lawyers have characterized the notes as quintessential privileged material. such communications are protected by attorney client privilege. no word yet on whether the argument will hold up. as the january six committee prepares to take its pro public, it becomes every day that the attack on the capitol was part of a larger scheme to overturn the election results, and that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. you remember that the ex president and his allies focus most of the detention and election lies on battleground states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, where biden's margins a victim were relatively narrow. one wave did not get of way with it was because the governors of those states decide to not be complacent in helping the fraudsters overturn the will of the majority of their voters. those actions, a fir

the latest trove of documents include the emails of this man, john eastman.y who is known as one of the -- in the dewey's attempt to overturn the 2020 american election. his documents are expected to conclude communications between him and other trump cabinet. figures like rudy giuliani. between march 20th and january six. on top of the 100,000 pages that he is said to provide to the committee any day now, 27,000 additional emails remain in dispute. the committee may still explain this later on. these emails will be along the tens of thousands of other documents of records of the january six committee, which is already has in its possession. it will be one of the crucial pieces of evidence that the committee will present to hold a public hearings, beginning on june the 9th. meanwhile, donald trump chief of staff mark meadows, this man, filed a new complaint to a d.c. court accusing the january six committee of leaking a text message in an attempt to, quote, vilify him publicly. the filing asked the court to reject a committee which could force meadows to comp

you may remember that john eastman was the attorney that orchestrated the failed former presidents last-ditch effort to overturn the legitimate election lost. he drafted memos that laid out a xiaojie for vice president mike pence to unlawfully strew swing the election results and donald trump's favor. with a late court filing, eastman urged a judge to maintain the confidentiality of his work for the ex president. he may have given us the clearest insight yet into the flurry of miscommunication, or the flurry of communication, between the former president, the top aides, and the campaign lawyers. political reports quote that the filing also describes the direct role of trump himself in developing strategy, detailing two-handed written notes from the former president about information that he thought might be useful for the anticipated litigation. these notes are among the documents that eastman is seeking to shield via attorney client privilege, and quote. we are going to wait to see how well the argument holds. up it is increasingly apparent that the former president's big lie is his inabilit