more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks before january 6. the times says this raises questions about a possible link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. cnn s katelyn polantz live in washington. explain to us about these revelations involved in all of these emails. reporter: hi. so this new story from the new york times describes emails between two lawyers who were working with donald trump and the trump campaign after the election. they appear to reveal that one lawyer, john eastman, he is well connected among conservatives, former supreme court clerk, that east man had insight into the internal deliberations of the supreme court and another lawyer was using that information with him to look at ramping up their legal battle with an expectation of chaos on january 6. so in these emails the new york times says that eastman on christmas eve
senate chamber. retired republican federal judge j. michael luttig is expected to condemn trump for instigating as he is expected to put it a war on democracy so that he could cling to power. judge luttig is expected to say had the vice president of the united states obeyed the president of the united states, america would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. joining us now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, a member of the select committee investigating january 6th. congressman raskin, thank you so much for being with us. i want to focus on the new revelations from the new york times starting with this email they report on between a pro trump lawyer and john eastman, who, of course, was working for donald trump and you focused on quite a bit. he writes, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6th will become more favorable if the justices start to fear tha
quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election, but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro trump lawyer, odd s of action will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks before the insurrection. they say this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. we re going to talk about this a lot more ahead. first, cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will be saying at today s hearing, which is going to focus on the pressure that donald trump put on pence to overturn the election results. this new photo obtained by abc news shows pence along with his family in hiding after rioters broke into the capitol on january 6th, and they left the