polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context the house may not have had before. and the second thing it does, it has a federal judge on paper looking at documents that could potential evidence and saying what they actually mean. and his finding is that these ema
abortion events are about, student loan policy is about. it was about getting democrats who are disenchanted with the biden administration to get back on board and get out and vote. that s important in any midterm election. over the summer democrats closed it a little bit especially with abortion. but as we ve seen, the momentum seems to be shifting back to republicans as some of these other issues that voters see republicans as leading on come back to the forefront, particularly in inflation and gas prices. so he s trying to shore that up. the unfortunately reality is anyone can look at their bank account, grocery bill, 401(k) and feel it personally. it s a difficult message for the white house to sell. it s inescapable what they re facing here. this isn t the first time that he s campaigned for john fetterman. and fetterman still facing this issue over his health. he suffered a stroke several months ago. yeah. and now he has a letter out from his doctor.
in the rest of russia, the border regions, for instance, close to ukraine. they ve had very just short of martial law but very strong military restrictions imposed, checkpoints, the authorities are able to sort of martial resources, protest and strike activity has been outlawed. a real suspension of civil liberties. and further east, moscow and other provinces as well, and you re seeing a tighter form of authoritarian control across the country. this is the kremlin tightening its grip not just across ukraine but across the entire area of russia. thank you so much for your insight, matthew. ahead john kirby from the white house joins us for the biden administration response to the martial law decree. s.o.s. officials in a democratic leaning county announced an inspection of the election count less than a week
elections, president biden s schedule this week is really providing a road map of the real-time triage effort to bolster democratic prospects. on tuesday biden vowed to send a bill to codify abortion protections if voters elect democratic senators and keep the house. on wednesday he announced a series of steps aimed at lowering gas prices. today he s in pennsylvania, talking about infrastructure and following it with a fund-raiser for candidate john fetterman. on friday he ll be in delaware to talk about student loan forgiveness. joining us now is kasie hunt. if you look at biden s week here, you really do see this road map. it s what democrats are trying to emphasize, what they re trying to maybe compensate for and who they re trying to shore up. it s really about who they re talking to. a series of these events. i think you ve seen this from democrats across the board. the focus is on trying to turn out base voters, that s what
i am the best example. a brown girl from the hood with an accent who went from from miami to the halls of congress. only in america. the rest of the 20% of the population. my people 60 million people understand we want to preserve that. it s not we are moving to the right or left. we are moving to the american agenda that assures you and your kids and grandchildren you will have an economic future. you will figure out what is the pursuit of happiness. it s very clear that the hispanics are waking up and thank god for that. we are not socialists. we are americans. mike: another topic. president biden hosting a summit for democracy with leaders from 100 countries. 3 in central america left out. do you get a sense that s because of the immigration