That is it for Tucker Carlson tonight. I want to thank our intern, caitlin, who is going off. She was so excited to get a picture not with me, but with sean hannity. Sean is ready to take off, blast oroff into the stratosphere. Sean is that what you call it . Blasting off. We do have big Breaking News. Mark, thank you. We have incredible guests, joeoe digenova, the great one mark levin. We have Breaking News this hour. It is so much worse than we knew or thought. The story of corrupt doj official, exforeign spies working together, literally to Stop Donald Trump from becoming president , and after his election to destroy him. We have more major Breaking News surrounding bruce ohr and Christopher Steele and now Christopher Steeles boss, fusion gps founder Glenn Simpson. The hills john solomon has now uncovered additional disturbing communications and for the first time, we have them, handwritten notes from bruce ohr, detailing how he coordinated with clintons team
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for whom is doesn t matter if there s a viable or plausible legal basis to make an argument whether it s a privilege or anything else related to the election. that said, i think the main baseoise which steve bannon and others have said they don t want to testify is executive privilege. this individual john eastman was not part of the executive branch, not in the government at the time. i don t think that flies. i suppose he can try and would make an argument of attorney/client privilege but there s a powerful argument that that s been waived depending who else was in the room. the memo is widely disseminated. we re talking about it on television. that probably fails. and there also happens to be it also happens to be the case that even if you have a lawyer who is getting some portion of his communications qualifies attorney/client privilege, there s a whole hell of a lot of other stuff including logistics on the day, things that don t relate to legal advice that would be illuminating
reject the results was not viable and would have been crazy to pursue. mr. eastman has been all over the map in terms of whether he stands by that memo or doesn t stand by that memo. cnn reached out to mr. eastman but he s not responded to the video or possibility of a subpoena. the list of witnesses is growing by the day but some interviews have been postponed, as have some records requests. it appears the committee may be paring back the number of documents they re asking for, anticipating a lengthy court battle with former president trump over executive privilege. they want to move relatively quickly as well. paula reid reporting. joining us now cnn s senior legal analyst, former u.s. attorney preet bharara and andrew mccabe. also author of the threat: how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. andrew, john eastman was clearly influential in the fight to try to overturn the presidential
reporter: a committee aide tells cnn that eastman could still avoid a subpoena if he voluntarily cooperates with the investigation. on tuesday, representative jamie raskin said the committee wants to know more about the pressure pence faced. we need to determine to what extent there was an organized effort against vice president pence. and we believe that, you know, some of the actors names have become known including john eastman who laid it out in a memo. reporter: eastman authored a two-page memo laying out what they ve called a nonsense legal theory for republican officials to subvert the constitution and throw out president biden s victory when congress convened to count electrical college votes. eastman first tried to convince pence of the plan to kick election results back to the states during a meeting with trump in the oval office on january 4th. but eastman didn t succeed. he tried again on january 6th. and all we are demanding of
important, raw intelligence that needs to be kept on a need-to-know basis. why was it then meant to be harder to trace the information, harder to weed out leakers, hold anybody accountable, that perhaps missed misuse that powd authority? you see what is going on here? the obama deep state cabal, they didn t expect trump to win, undercutting the trump administration from all angles before they even walked in the door, unmasking, and expanding of sharing this raw signal intelligence, coordination with the media mob, and then, of course, using a bought and paid for russian dossier that can t be verified, that its own author doesn t stand by, yeah, to spy on the president, the president-elect, and of course, the presidential candidate in the beginning. rather working with the incoming putin, obama officials were doing everything they could to undermine it. here now with reaction come at the heart of breaking both of these big stories, the attorney for the president, chairman for