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federal court to throw out the state charges there in georgia. what's his argument? what's the rationale? >> reporter: well, he's arguing that he was working as an official and the only reason he did anything after the 2020 election for donald trump was because he was chief of staff at the white house, that he was a public official. right now mark meadows has been very aggressive in getting into court, specifically trying to get his case moved to federal court and also asking over the weekend for his case and his charges in georgia that he now faces to be dismissed. he's pointed out to the court he's not charged in the federal case in d.c. where the justice department has charged donald trump. he's not even a co-conspiritor there and, thus, because what he was doing for trump in the white house was part of his official duties, that all should get tossed. this mark meadows situation is important to watch because we could pick up on how he may split from trump and already is not in coordination with his
now, the same deputy white house counsel tried to dissuade co-conspiritor 4 from assuming the role of acting attorney general. the deputy white house counsel reiterated to co-conspiritor 4 that there had not been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that if the defendant remained in office nonetheless there would be, quote, riots in every major city in the united states. co-conspiritor 4 responds, quote, well, deputy white house counsel, that is why there's an insurrection act, end quote. there's actually more. it now appears that much of the case involving the unprecedented pressure campaign on mike pence to stop the certification of the electoral college on january 6th was built on contemporaneous notes taken by pence himself and, yes, handed over to and provided to special counsel jack smith. the indictment mentions this conversation. quote, on december 29th, as reflected in the vice president's contemporaneous
what to whom and what you come away with is this was a conspiracy. this wasn't a clown car of people. it looked like a clown car in the beginning with the four seasons landscaping, rudy giuliani speeches. >> the war run meeting? >> yes. >> you pointed out something, we have 45 seconds left here but you say specifically how you mentioned this one point that really stood out to you in this indictment. what was? >> yeah. on january 3rd the co con spiritor 4 spoke to the deputy white house counsel told co-conspiritor 4 there had not been outcome determinative fraud in the election. if the defendant remained in office, being donald trump, there would be, quote, riots in every part of the united states. co-conspiritor four, well, that's why there's an insurrection. >> unbelievable. jeffrey clark. >> who actually said yes by the way. he told donald trump he would accept that appointment as acting attorney general because he's the only one in the
but they went to court to get a search warrant from e-mail. it wasgle and a g- mail account and they didn't want rosen to find out about it. and they went to ask the judge to grant the search warrant and tell google to keep quiet. in the course of doing that. they allege the activity which we call cultivating the sources and reporting the news was criminal. >> they suggested that james had broken the law. and this is quoting from the affidavit either as aider or abetter or co-conspiritor. and the court signed off. it is easier to get them to sign off when there is no lawyer representing the other side. >> and not just the first amendment, megyn, there is a privacy protection that protects journalist from this