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
a federal judge says donald trump likely committed crimes in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. i m brianna keilar is john berman. new reporting this morning, judge david carter issuing an opinion that former president trump knew his claims of voter fraud were false but he continued to make them anyway in public and in court, signing off on legal documents. this stems from emails between the former president and attorney john eastman who worked with trump and his allies to push the bogus claims of election fraud. the judge ordered the emails to be turned over to the january 6th committee because he said they contain evidence of crimes. the same judge in march said that trump more likely than not committed crimes trying to obstruct the count of electoral college votes on january 6th. joining us is caitlyn
by attorney/client privilege. let s say, hypothetically, you john berman were charged with a crime, bank robbery. you hire me as your lawyer would it be smart? i would do it for free for you. if we communicated about strategy on the case, are we taking a plea, going to trial, who s our witnesses going to be? that s all covered by attorney/client privilege, no one else gets to see it. but if we talk about maybe we ll rob another bank together, you ll drive, i ll go in, that is not covered under attorney/client privilege. that s the fraud exception claim. the judge found that only a few, but an important few, eight of them were not covered by the privilege because they fell under the crime fraud exception. eight is not a lot but going to a potential crime, that is a lot. the judge did not show us the