out potentially privileged information? there there was so little merit to any potential privilege. here i can imagine the courts starting in d.c. and now the court of appeals, working through this issue of not that the department of justice shouldn t get ultimately the relevant material on the phone, but what is the best way to sift out the stuff that is irrelevant or protected by privilege? so, i think that might be the issue that s really i want to make sure, you re not saying a member of congress is trying to suggest that a member of congress can be investigated
intended to be shielded from public scrutiny. part of the strict secrecy that governs ongoing grand jury matters. the fbi seized perry s phone back in august with a court-approved warrant. perry fought it, saying there are constitutional protections for members of congress. politico adds this, quote, the fight has intensified in recent weeks and drawn the house, newly led by speaker mccarthy, into the fray. on friday the chamber moved to intervene in the back and forth over letting doj access the phone of perry. the house freedom caucus chair reflecting the case s potential to result in precedent-setting rulings, to the extent which lawmakers could be shielded from scrutiny and criminal investigations. the house s decision to intervene in legal cases is governed by the bipartisan legal advisory group, five-member panel that includes mccarthy, his democratic counterpart, hakeem jeffries, and other members of house leadership. uncovering what is on perry s phone could be really important
if there s probable cause to believe said member committed crimes? absolutely not. if a person, no matter if they re the president, the vice president, a member of congress, if you commit a crime, you can be investigated for it. unlike a president where there s a department of justice policy that you can t prosecute a sitting president, there s no such policy with respect to congress. so, at the center of what s going on with the department of justice, and i have to say pete has the same view, if you are a former member of the department of justice, this is the kind of crime that really is fundamental to your mission. the idea that somebody would try to install somebody to say that there was fraud when there wasn t is the kind of thing that i would think merrick garland and jack smith are going to be focused on like a laser. that s why i think you re correct to say that this is one where getting access to this phone and the relevant material
aides. his text messages with chief of staff mark meadows put into stark relief how perry was, quote, attempting to involve himself in nearly every aspect of the campaign to block joe biden s win. that s according to talking points memo, which obtained the thousands of meadows texts that were turned over to the january 6th select committee. at one point, perry even brought up the conspiracy theory that italian satellite zapped voting machines and stole the election for president joe biden. now there s new reporting that pulls back the curtain on amoslong legal battle between this staunch trump ally and the current doj as the department continues its investigation into the efforts to reverse the 2020 election result. politico is reporting this, quote, a federal appeals court panel has put a secret hold on the justice department s efforts to access perry s phone. the existence of the legal fight, a setback for doj, reported here in politico for the first time is itself
reporter: 50 years after that big win, houston high finally celebrated by the city of perry. finally getting those championship rings. a special moment for my family, too. lawrence is my brother-in-law. he met his first love, my sister, that very year. this occasion is more than about winning a championship. it s more than about getting rings. reporter: the night of our report, marilyn velde was watching in louisville, kentucky. she called lawrence and said his team brought her back to her own childhood, to the kindness she remembered from her parents, evangeline and kent wheeler, asking if she could personally pay for every one of their championship rings and their trophies. and so they gathered again, with marilyn at the podium. it s such an honor for me to be here in front of all of you all. ame