Here's how Mark Meadows just made himself 'unusable' as a cooperator: Mueller prosecutor
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows suffered a blow in court on Friday when a federal judge rejected his bid to have his charges in the Georgia election racketeering case moved to federal court, widely speculated to have been a ploy to make the case easier to defeat. But even worse, argued former Robert Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC Friday, Meadows blew any shot he had at a good deal with prosecutors by pulling this stunt.
"[One] thing that I find interesting is the judge is polite in the way he phrases it, but he clearly did not credit Mark Meadows' testimony," Weissmann told anchor Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House." "One of the phrases that stood out to me is he says there are certain things that he credits and then he says however, the court gives less weight to his assertion which is a very polite way of saying, he doesn't buy it. And he points out that Mark Meadows was not able to, when he took the stand, to delineate what was his role as Chief of Staff."
"Well some of that turns, I would assume in the point in the hearing where [Fulton County prosecutor] Fani Willis and her team were able to pull out ... email where he was directing campaign officials to direct the fake electors," said Wallace....