Was central in his federal role as trump gate keeper inside the white house. sara murray is live for us with more on that. what was the broad takeaway from the argument, as we said, that meadows and his lawyer want theed the judge to hear. it s a gamable to put a criminal defendant under oath, but that s what they did with med does because they wanted to drive home this notion that everything he was doing, even if it seemed political, was part of his work as white house chief of staff and should be moved to federal court. so calls involving rudy giuliani, who was then trump s personal attorney, that was part of his official duties. the call to brad raffensperger, where trump asked him to find the vote, that was part of his official duties. voter fraud suspicion were a road block to the peaceful transfer of power and he was lie