tonight. but this idea that a judge talking about john eastman and donald trump. i know this was a ruling in a civil case tonight. but how big a deal is it that a federal judge is now saying that trump and eastman, likely committed crimes and the commission of trying to get the election overturned? it is a very big deal. judge carter, a federal district judge in california, said that the president likely committed felony offenses in conspiring to obstruct a federal proceeding, to interfere with it and to commit a fraud against the united states. and he went on to say that had the plot that eastman and trump were involved with, had it succeeded, then we likely would ve seen the end of the peaceful transfer of power in america. it would have been a threat, permanently, to democracy and the constitution and what makes me so pleased about this is the country, the judiciary, the people are waking up to the immensity of the offense against our constitution and
obstruct the joint session of congress on january 6th. it was a coup in search of a legal theory. if doctor eastman and president trump s plan had worked it would ve permanently added and the peaceful transition of power, undermining american democracy and the constitution. if the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the court fears january 6th will repeat itself. end quote. those words from a federal judge in a ruling today in a civil case, to determine whether eastman would keep his email communications secret from january 6th investigators. eastman and by extension, trump, lost this round. and that was just one of the several major developments today in the january six investigation. nbc news reports of the january six investigator are meeting
pence s staff to, quote, one more relatively minor violation, and quote, of the law, in order to delay the election certification of biden s victory eastman was essentially admitting in an email that he knew there scheme to overturn the election was illegal, that it violated the law, that he asked the vice president s office to go ahead and do it anyway. and email was among the evidence collected by the committee, which led to conclude that trump and his allies had likely committed crimes in their attempts to get congress to overturn biden s victory. today, we got another major development and that story. when a federal judge essentially agreed for the first time since the january 6th attack, a federal judge agreed that former president trump and eastman likely committed crimes in the lead up to january 6th. quote, based on the evidence, the court finds that it is more likely than not that president trump and dr. eastman dishonestly conspired to