electoral certificates from certain states of the apparent objective of these efforts was to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. and declared donald trump the winner. in this way, the conspiracy aim to obstruct and interfere with the proper functioning of the united states government. so again, tonight, let s be clear about this. the january 6th investigation, has gone to court, to say that donald trump s lawyer can claim attorney-client privilege for his communications, because, can t claim it, because he and trump and others on trump s campaign were engaged in crimes. joining us now is former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan barbara mcquade and last week she published a model prosecution memo analyzing charges against trump pressuring mike pence to overturn the election and incredibly the two crimes that she thought may have been commited are the two crimes the january 6th investigation names
attorney-client privilege. here is where things actually get interesting. tonight, the january 6th investigation has filed a motion in court, making its case for why those emails are actually not protected by attorney-client privilege, and what they are saying is that the attorney-client privilege is void if both the lawyer and the client are communicating about is doing something illegal or fraudulent. under the law, you and your lawyer can t just simply plan something illegal and then claim attorney-client privilege to shield all of the evidence of that crime. in the january 6th investigation, it is now saying to the judge tonight, we believe donald trump and his lawyer john eastman were engaged in crimes. let me read some of this is for you. from tonight s filing for the january 6th investigation. evidence and information available to the committee establishes a good faith belief that mr. trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts, and that