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Been on the calendar for six months. a federal judge has rejected a bid by attorney john eastman to invalidate a subpoena by the house selection committee investigating the insurrection. eastman is responsible for spearheading then president trump's strategy for overturning the 2020 election results. the committee is seeking documents from chapman university, eastman's former employer. this new order is the latest in a string of victories for congressional victories looking to access key documents that eastman hoped to shield from the panel. joining us now, national correspondent from politico...

The opportunity to argue that specific documents inside of his e-mails are privileged, but then he does something that you don't see a federal judge do often. he ordered eastman to get to work with the january 6th committee by noon today. he asked the parties to give him a joint meeting, telling him where they were and compiling that privilege log by tomorrow and then again friday. and he's ordered them back into court on monday for a hearing on the status of these proceedings. in other words, this judge is telling eastman, don't sit around and play the delay game. i expect you to tell the hou...

Includes this 22-page strategic communications plan that's dated december 27th. you see the subhead there in red, we have ten days to execute this plan and certify president trump. it's not really a plan. it's basically a set of talking points. but this is what they say is their talking points message targeted to, quote, everyone. you cannot let america itself be stolen by criminals. you must take a stand and you must take it today. again, that document, dated december 2020, saying that they had ten days until january 6th to sort of get president trump certified for another term even though he...

Over, but something can't be handed over because of the type of document it is, because it is implicated in -- it implicates the attorney/client privilege or some other privilege that should shield it from being handed over to the court. privilege logs are a real thing. privilege logs don't look like this. what bernie kerik produced as his, quote, privilege log, this is like the bazooka bubble gum wrapper cartoon version of a privilege log. but it is his explanation to the january 6th investigators what he has not handed over to them and why. he's handed them a trove of documents. he has not g...

0 they are going to put down and lay down the law to. it >> not there yet. >> it's coming, don't worry. i'm in communication with their kids on. this don't worry. planning the and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, d.c., they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capitol cap capito capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it. happy new year. this is how we're starting. in addition to most federal offices being closed be...