meanwhile the doj investigation is heating up tonight. the lawyer who told then president trump that mike pence could single handedly block certification of the election, spoiler alert, he could not, that lawyer john east man says the fbi seized his phone and got access to his e-mail account. here s the video. and it happened the same day the feds raided the home of jeffrey clark the former doj official who pushed trump s false election fraud claim. more to come on all of that. plus chaos and confusion across the country in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. more and more states rushing to ban abortion. the latest, south carolina. a federal judge today allowing the state to ban abortions beginning around six weeks. that makes at least ten states with bans or severe restrictions. another 14 where bans and severe restrictions are certain or likely. so in nearly half the country, nearly half the country, a right that americans have had for 50 years is vanis
employee of the department. and he obviously was dealing with eastman. that ties them together. that s why the fbi probably got the double assignment. john, this is what we heard from eastman from the live in tape testimony last week. what did doctor eastman want you to do? that we would, in fact, vote, take a vote, to overthrow or i shouldn t say overthrow. that we would decertify the electors. what did the president say when he called you? essentially he turned the call over to mr. eastman who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these electors. do you think he ll ultimately be charged with a crime? i don t know.
flimsy legal theory that the vice president had the ability to stand in the way of the election results. and according to eastman, we are getting this information from his side of things, he was out to dinner with his wife and a friend, approached by several fbi agents, they searched him, found his phone, they opened his phone using fair and impartial recognition software and then this access to that material. he is complying about it. he kpleefs this was an illegal seizure of him. he is trying to prevent this information from being used in any future investigation. at this point the department of justice isn t commenting what they are hoping learn from eastman. sounds like a law and order episode. what sense of urgency are you seeing? this announcement of an additional hearing is very unexpected and we are learning about a security concern for a witness. yeah. there is a lot of intrigue around what the committee plans to do tomorrow at 1:00 eastern. there is a lot of intrigue in
it s odd they drew attention to the fact somebody is having security concerns. that s not typically the way to do it. it s kind of the fascinating mystery. i agree, they really drawn a lot of attention to this thing now. i hope the informed people are correct that this will be something significant. could it be the person people wanted to hang on january 6? there a lot of people who have been mentioned in the testimony so far. that person, the former white house counsel pat. clark, eastman. i m not predicting any of them will be the witness. there are people referred to repeatedly who have decided i ll go down and sit down and tell me own story in front of the committee. there s all kinds of possibilities there. you don t want to say who you think it could be? no. no chance. a resounding no.
i m not familiar with i have not seen that before in my career. there s no question that this warrant is connected to an ig case because the documents used are inspector general documents and the file number that they have on the document is not consistent with an fbi case file number. so, it s strange to me that the bureau would have been involved in executing the warrant. it s also a little bit questionable as to why the department of justice inspector general would be investigating a man john eastman who never worked for the department of justice. all very interesting questions hopefully we get to the bottom of. more mystery. now i really want to know. i m not kidding. do you want to respond? i want to play a sound bite. i would add that i think because he s inspector general is doing it, it looks like it s jeffrey clark who is a an