with the bizarre qanon text messages ginni thomas exchanged with mark meadows she encouraged him to overturn the 2020 election. this comes after the committee today scored a significant victory in court against trump lawyer and insurrection memo author john eastman who tried and failed to weasel out of a subpoena for documents. more explosive however, the judge in the case said trump probably committed a felony when he tried to stop congress from certifying the vote for biden in a sweeping and historic 44-page ruling today, u.s. district court judge david carter wrote based on the evidence the court finds it more likely than not trump elected to obstruct the joint session of congress on january 6th, 2021. professor at the alabama school of law and former u.s. attorney and elie, and peter, former fbi counter intelligence agent. thank you for being here. joyce, i m going to you. i m reading through this 44-page
he means absent the 1/6 committee, they fear january 6th will repeat itself. how helpful is that to the 1/6 committee? extremely helpful. and as mike pointed out, the judges ruling doesn t mean that trump is charged for even investigated for a crime. but it increases the pressure. and it also really he could on rates the entire impetus and foundation for the committee s work and their mission. the determination that we saw today from u.s. district court judge david carter comes amid battle just to sort of set the stage here between john eastman and the committee in terms of turning over his hundreds and thousands of e-mails he sent from his personal e-mail. and the committee wanting that as a part of their investigation. ultimately, there were around 111 e-mails that eastman did not want to give over. the committee then that was being ultimately litigated and this judge reviews the 111
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