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adviser pretrial hearing, peter navarro is in federal court fighting the congressional subpoenas issued over the committee investigating january 6. he claimed executive privilege and that trump later regretted not letting navarro of it. and the judge called the argument weak sauce, and i quote. what do you make of the nature of that response? it seems to be setting a tone for some of the arguments coming out of trump world. >> not surprised by the judge's response and there were similar comments made in the mark meadows proceeding in georgia by the judge where the judge was questioning the credibility of certain statements made by mark meadows as he's tried to argue that all of his actions were under the color of law and somehow related to some very important federal policy. but in the case of navarro, one big problem, he is claiming that trump man as certification of executive privilege, but there .
2020 election in georgia. >> you can't ever accept when they steal and rig and rob. >> reporter: meadows who has kept a stunningly low profile amid the various investigations into donald trump now breaking his silence on the case under oath. those were challenging times bluntly meadows told the court. as meadows seeks to move his case from state to federal court, the focus, prosecutors delved into the allegations against meadows. meadows denying that he directed another white house aid to write a memo about how to delay or disrupt the certification of the election on january 6. saying that he had zero recollection of that happening. and it was the biggest surprise to me upon reading the indictment. putting meadows on the stand to challenge the events he is accused of participating in in georgia, a risky approach for any criminal defendant. meadows looking to make the case that his activities after the 2020 election were part of his official dutsies as chief of
jury selection to begin march 4. that is just one day before super tuesday or when more than a dozen states hold their primary elections. judge tanya chutkan said the trial date does not depend on the defendant's personal and professional obligations and that she'd be watching for anything that might poison the jury pool including public comments by trump or his lawyers. and that wasn't the only trump-related election subversion case to see major developments. former chief of staff took the stand in georgia in what amendmented to essentially a preview trial of the case there. sarah maury has more. >> reporter: former white house chief of staff mark meadows -- >> to start wholesale trying to change the way that we conduct elections state by state. i can tell you that we're asking for problems, we're asking for fraud. >> reporter: taking the stand in a federal courtroom in georgia after he, former president trump and 17 others were charged with racketeering by the fulton county district attorney for their attempts to overturn the
like charleston that summertime rainstorm can produce flooding in downtown charleston. up towards myrtle beach and then towards wilmington. charlotte will probably receive some precipitation from this, but there will be high winds, downed power lines. you could lose power for days, perhaps weeks in some instances if you are in some more isolated areas. you will see a rip current here. the storm surge as i mentioned. can't rule out the potential for an isolated tornado as well. here we go. we'll take you and take a look at what the spaghetti models are suggesting. they have been in very good agreement as far as making landfall. and then approaching georgia and south carolina. and then it looks like not all are in agreement as we go through the next five days. might this just kind of lingering along the coast? if this is going to be a
staff including rararranging th call between between president trump and georgia secretary of state. >> everybody is on the line. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> reporter: raffensperger also took the stand saying that first tried to resist the call and testifying that there was no federal role in certifying georgia's election. when prosecutors questioned what federal role meadows was fulfilling in post election calls with trump and another purveyor of election falsehoods, his personal attorney rudy giuliani -- >> we can not allow these crooks, because that is what they are, to steal an election from the american people. they elected donald trump. they didn't elect joe biden. >> reporter: meadows said that he was acting as a gatekeeper and insisted that there was a federal interest in accurate and fair elections. meadows also claimed that he
but many say this is a regurgitation of the january 6 committee investigation, that the facts are simple, that donald trump is telling the truth and when you tell the truth you don't need a lot of time to prepare. so you have these conflicting messages and the judge said in the interests of the public's right to have a resolution of this trial leading up to what is going to be this election, she set the trial for march. but it does cause complications because we know that there is that march trial in manhattan. the hush money trial that has been brought by alvin bragg. and then the florida mishandling of documents trial that is set for may of 2024. so the trial calendar is looking pretty busy for donald trump. >> and we have reporting that some of the judges are talking to each other primesumably to me sure that we schedule it that doesn't interfere with your case. and i want to move to georgia. mark meadows testified on the stand really for hours. and this was in a pretrial setting. and i'm wondering for you, i
too late now to make those kinds of arrangements. but nonetheless it will still be impactful throughout the day on tis as it gathers strength. and next 24 hours, we'll see that by wednesday morning, programs we will be a category 3. it had been a little bit later in the day. but we think perhaps landfall will be about midday on wednesday. maybe around the big bend area there. which is very sparsely populated. a lot of wildlife management areas, a lot of recreational activity that would take place there. there are still communities, but the big populations are right along the west coast. this is kind of a forecast radar. you see what it is doing here? now throwing that moisture in across southern sections of georgia even up towards atlanta, picking up some rainfall. and across midlands of south carolina and coastal sections
circumventing all of the white house counsel's advice. why wasn't pat cipollone and the doj involved. instead mark recruited outside lawyers who he wanted to listen to. i think that undercuts the notion that this is all part of my federal responsibility if i'm not getting counsel from the people hired in your office to serve the white house in that role. >> in the center of the case is the call with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. mark meadows said that call was to get over the roadblock and land the plane on the whole transfer of power to joe biden. what do you make of that explanation? >> again, i think the vice president at that point was focused more on travelling the country and trying to get states to reopen after much of the threat of covid was behind us. we weren't involved as what's happened in georgia. as i said many times, i think the actions taken were wrong. i don't think there was evidence of fraud or that the georgia election was stolen. to call on raffensperger to find
chief of staff has wide responsibilities. he said, now, if he, shot a demonstrator in lafayette park, that would obviously be outside the scope of his duties. the judge didn't rule on whether meadows can move his case to federal court but said he will rule promptly noting he is aarraignments are stet in this case in state court on september 6th. >> sara, thank you. we'll be back with you in a moment. i want to go from the georgia election interference case to the federal election interference case against trump and the march 4th trial date set by the judge. cnn's jessica schneider has the latest on that. what is the judge saying about the timing of the case? >> reporter: he said it would be unprecedented to wait until 2026 which is when trump's lawyers wanted the case to start. she did say, look, we're not going to give you that. special counsel, we're also not going to give you what you want,
ago. former trump chief of staff mark meadows trying to get the election subversion case moved to federal court. joining me is marc short, the former choief of staff to vice president mike pence. thanks for joining us this evening. i want to first ask you about mark meadows' testimony. you were the former vice president's chief of staff, so meadows was your counterpart in trump's office. were his actions in georgia part of the job description of a chief of staff? >> alex, i'm not sure that the job description for donald trump's chief of staff fit into the normal chief of staff role. i think it's true that mark was acting at the behest of the president and he deserves the benefit of the doubt. one challenge for him is to say this was all his official capacity. if that was rue, why was he