report how meadows did himself grave legal harm in an exchange in which meadows appears to lie about his own role in the fake lectors plot. meadows hit a snag, a prosecutor asked whether he had, quote, any role in coordinating the bogus electors used in a last-ditch effort to keep trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. i did not, he replied. prosecutor then introduced into the record a december 2020 e-mail mr. meadows wrote to a trump campaign staff member. in it, mr. med to wrote this, quote, we just need to have someone coordinating the lectors for the states end quote. the exchange, which prosecutors will almost use against meadows at trial, underscore the high stakes gamble he took by testifying so far the gamble has not paid off. in early september u.s. district judge steve jones declined to move meadows case to federal court. meadows has appealed. as we said the swamp of alligators waiting to bite meadows head off, trump telling nbc news this about meadows, qu