polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context the house may not have had before. and the second thing it does, it has a federal judge on paper looking at documents that could potential evidence and saying what they actually mean. and his finding is that these ema
part under they re in a war-time situation. there s fierce fighting going on, particularly to the area of kherson. but also russia doesn t control large areas of these places as well. so it s not able to impose its jurisdiction physically on the ground. we have to remember, this is all about vladimir putin showing what he s capable of doing. he s had a lot of criticism inside russia that he s not being strong enough in ukraine, right wing military hard liners in the country saying he should do more. this is his message he will do whatever it takes to defend these areas that russia claims as its own. the martial law decree is getting a lot of attention. but you point out what s happening inside russia proper might be of greater significance. explain. reporter: yeah, i think it is. because while on the ground the martial law doesn t really change anything in effect. it s already pretty much a military zone anyway. when you look at what s happened
polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context