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John eastmans emails. eastman continues to claim attorney/client privilege. lets discuss with former federal prosecutor elie honig. its important to note the committee cant prosecute. so this isnt an indictment. what is the significance? >> not an indictment but very, very important. heres how we got here. so the committee wants to get access to emails between donald trump and this attorney, john eastman. this is the attorney who came up with the idea of we can have mike pence unilaterally rejec...

Directly to the committee the documents that were looking for. and i hope that that will establish a precedent now for these judges who are rejecting all of the phony claims of executive privilege and attorney/client privilege, nub of which can cover criminal activity like insurrections. these judges can now not just reject these claims, but actually compel these witnesses to turn over the evidence that were looking for. >> let me move to the phone log part of this story and this identification ...

Comply. theres a question about how you get the republican lawmaker who is dont want to comply with the committee to get that information. >> joyce, let me ask you quickly here, the judge also ordered the lawyer john eastman to give the january 6th committee more than 100 emails hes been attempting to shield using attorney/client privilege. this is a guy who wrote a memo thats been likened to sort of a playbook for a coup. what do you think those emails will tell us? >> one of the emails the jud...

Introduction - Privilege assertions and waivers are a hot area for internal investigations and government proffers. One burning question centers around whether a party may claim...

After the hearing that took place on monday night. >> the supreme court has made very clear that executive privilege is not absolute, and thats exactly what mr. meadows is claiming. and the fact that he sent us all these documents shows that he understands that he doesnt enjoy absolute privilege. these were non-privileged documents that he sent according to he and his attorney, and he should have to come talk about them. >> reporter: what happens next, the full house is expected to vote on this ...

Him about privileged information, he had no choice but to not show up. >> you think thats the case even when hes talking about conversations that -- hes relation conversations he had with potus. he says, i talked to trump and trump thinks x. trump thinks the vp can flip the election. you think he hasnt waived privilege there? >> he cant waive privilege. the only person that can waive privilege is the president. biden has waived the privilege. meadows cant waive the privilege that exists with the...

Giuliani, the former mayor of new york city, to peddle many of the false information and lies that the trump campaign was sending out in the days after the 2020 election. and in these memos, one that she sent to the former president donald trump, another to jay sekulow, who was also on that trump legal team, suggested that former vice president mike pence could just ignore the federal rise that requires him to take receipt of the electors from the different states, open them up and hand them ove...

Arguments steve bannon is on the executive privilege front. does he have a stronger case? remember, steve bannon trying to make the case and he was a private citizen. didnt work anywhere but for himself. >> yeah, steph. no doubt. mark meadows having been chief of staff will have a more robust executive privilege claim than steve bannon. steve bannon has zero claim to executive privilege and basically the courts acknowledge that. heres the thing. there is this thing called waiver by disclosure. i...

Well. the fact that he is now stone walling them. he did initially cooperate, not only is he not turning anything over. he wont even show up to parse through the documents that he admitted when he turned them over were not privileged so the case isnt a weak one for holding him in criminal contempt. im just concerned that given the issue of his, you know, being an executive branch employee coupled with the fact that the initially cooperated, its a more challenging case for sure for the department...

And certainly a possibility that it was criminal, yes. >> to move on to another individual we didnt hear a lot about until these investigations kicked into gear, lawyer john eastman. he helped draft a plan for then vice president mike pence to interrupt vote certification. why would a lawyer worry about incriminating himself if hes just crafting legal strategies? >> because maybe hes doing more than that. thats one reason why he might not have attorney/client privilege. if you were engaging with...