Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rathensberger and Georgia Election Investigator Francis Watson

has been subpoenaed by Fannie Willis to testify on Monday at what people are deeming a mini trial

that's going to take place in Georgia federal court in front of federal judge, district judge

Jones. What is this about and what is going on? In some ways, this is going to be a preview

of some of the evidence that Fannie Willis has in her blockbuster Georgia case against 19

defendants and why are we in federal court on Monday and what's happening? So three of the 19

defendants have asked that their case be removed to federal court. What does that mean? What is

federal removal? There's a statute that dictates when civil and criminal cases get sent to or

removed to federal court, essentially saying that state court is not the appropriate place for

the cases to be tried. Now for a criminal case, which is what we have here, we have a 19 count

RICO indictment. What the defendants have to allege in federal court is that number one,

they were a federal officer. Number two, that they were acting under the authority of their job.

So they were basically doing their job at the time and acting under their authority of their job.

They call it the color, under the color of the authority of their position of a federal officer.

And number three, that there's a plausible federal defense. So that is what they are alleging.

And Mark Meadows has indicated that he wants to remove his case to federal court and he has

alleged those three things. He has, however, in some ways really hurt his case because in addition to

asking for this removal to federal court, what he said in his motion was very much that he was doing

his job, that this was part of his job. He essentially made admissions that he was making the phone calls,

arranging the meetings and doing all the things that he's alleged to be doing. And he's saying,

well, what do you think the job of chief of staff is? But one thing he's not thinking about for some

perplexing reason is that the chief of staff is allowed to work for and do these things for the

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