Months, it s packed. i want to ask you about the georgia election interference case. mark meadows showing up to testify. to some degree a collective gasp. you haven t heard from him really january 6th with the exception of his book. the decision to put him on the stand, a risk i think to some degree unexpected but a gamble that could pay off to some degree? reporter: right. it is a gamble that could pay off. certainly the judge from the bench yesterday, phil, said that this is pretty low bar to remove this case. he asked some very pointed questions himself of mark meadows lawyer about the limits of what he was arguing, which is that what mark meadows was doing, going down to georgia, spending time pressuring state officials, all of that was part of his official duties as chief of staff. in the end, though, this is a gamble because in the end what mark meadow s did was answer questions that he has not had to