questions about you what shared with us. if you think there is a privilege issue you can raise it to that specific question. it has been interesting to watch the committee over the past three days become a lot more gresi aggressive about sharing what it is they learned from meadows and what they want to ask him about. last night before the vote, they shared more text messages to and from meadows including one on november 4th, you referenced earlier. this is from a lawmaker to meadows. it says, quote, here san aggressive strategy. why can t the states of georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, and other republican-controlled state houses declare this is bs, where conflicts and election were not called that night and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to skcotus. they re trying to lay out a plan, a blueprint for how to undermine the outcome of the election. this is a blueprint that is being used forward looking at other upcoming elections and how to undermine those as wel
like bannon because of the privilege issues, meadows after all was working in the executive branch and has asserted executive privilege. the committee has made a really smart argument to the justice department. they ve said you don t have to consider the privilege issue. we re going to set that aside. we re asking you to hold meadows in contempt because he turned over a number of documents saying that they weren t privileged and it s those non-privileged issues that he s refused to appear and testify about. that s a very compelling case for the justice department to prosecute. all right, luke, you wrote that the documents meadows handed over have given the investigation its first substantial burst of momentum. can you explain how that is? because one would think that these text messages were so big everyone would stop in their tracks, but fox news, as ali said last night, they keep on trucking. they re going after the committee. it s stunning. you ve got to remember that millions of
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that s why he s gone forth in doing this. and then there s the privilege issue, if you d like me to talk about that as well. apparently, justice is saying there s an executive privilege here. the executive privilege would not stand up in light of either a criminal matter either a normal criminal matter or a high crime and misdemeanor if that were involved. and i think, lawrence, that s why the president has just now taken this outlandish position that not only can a sitting president not been indicted but he can t even be investigated. because if he can t be investigated, nobody could raise the could try to breach his privilege with an allegation that this is a matter of criminal behavior. so we re really in some very deep constitutional water here in my opinion. so you don t find it coincidental that today is the day when the president s lawyers in manhattan, as we re going to discuss with professor laurence