cnn s pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o brien joins me now. pete, let s start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they initially got a phone call at 5:00 a.m. central time from the person on board this airplane saying that they were threatening to crash the plane into one of the walmarts in tupelo, mississippi. according to flight aware, the plane flew around for about five hours, north west of the area and then over the holly springs national forest. we heard from sources that a king air like this, a beechcraft, sea
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ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
i think the court is going to be forced to make a decision that there is no legitimate privilege, either executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. to me, it s been obvious for many years that there is no such privilege, that it gets waived when there is a need for it in a criminal case like this and possibly even for congress. the congress is less clear that it will be way, but certainly, the department of justice, there s no privileged. don t get testimony they re looking for, and that s going to move us forward a lot. i think that the two lawyers particularly have nothing to hide. they particularly seem to have been advised that everything going on was wrong, that it should not be done, so they did the right thing back down and should be proud of the and willing to this if i. david, talk to me about the strategy here of trying to crack trump s attorney client privilege claims. it s a tool that he uses often,
page pate is a criminal defense lawyer and law attorney. you could give us a sense of how significant this is that graham has been called to testify? well, sarah, it is potentially very significant. and here is why. the phone call that senator graham made to the secretary of state here in geors right around the same time that people working with the trump campaign were trying to spread misinformation about alleged election and voting fraud in this state. and what i think the district attorney wants to know is whether senator graham was coordinating his calls with trump or with the trump campaign. senator graham unlike rudy giuliani or some of the other witnesses does not have any attorney/client privilege claims. he doesn t have any executive privilege claims. the only thing that he s trying to claim that should prevent him from being required to testify is his constitutional right as a senator to conduct legislative