Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Coates. And you know, that moment when you wonder if it's

the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end, well, in the words of Al Pacino

in a sense of a woman, we're just getting warmed up. We got four Trump indictments and

the real story is really about to begin. And remember, every single thing contained

in those indictments were their only allegations. The prosecutor actually asked to prove all of

it to a jury, and not the one in the court of public opinion, but in the actual court

of law. But the big question, of course, is which court? Well, that's the question that

Donald Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has been asking and in Georgia, because

he wants a federal court, not Fulton County, but it takes more than just, well, you're

wanting something to then make it so, right? You've got to prove why it should be the

case. And under the law, any federal employee may remove a criminal case to federal court

if they're being prosecuted for things that they did in the course of their official duties.

And this is in the word official, of course. We'll talk more about tonight what exactly

the official duties of the chief of staff really are. And do they include getting involved

and say, state election? But wait, there's more everyone. You also have to demonstrate

that you've got some kind of a federal defense. And let me tell you, I didn't do it, ain't

going to cut it. There's got to be some federal law that a judge can look at to have that,

aha, he's right. It says it right there, kind of moment. Now, one law that is being mentioned,

of course, as well, the supremacy clause. The one that tells you the federal law trumps

the states. In other words, if you've got a federal law that says, I can do what I did,

a state court shouldn't be hearing a case about it. You stay in your lane. I'll tell

you what, I'll stay in mine. But then again, just because you're a federal employee, it doesn't

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