'Didn’t really care how many laws had to be broken': Trump lawyer John Eastman grilled on 60 Minutes

Disgraced law professor John Eastman — a prime architect of the January 6 plot to steal the 2020 presidential election — defended himself on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday night amid felony RICO charges in Georgia and disbarment proceedings in California.

In the interview, CBS' Scott Pelley grilled Eastman on his shaky legal theories that were the foundation for Trump to be declared the winner of the 2020 election despite losing both the popular vote and the electoral college vote, particularly in Georgia.

"You said 2500 convicts [voted in Georgia], the investigation found four. You said 10,000 dead voters [were on Georgia's rolls], the investigation found four. It doesn't seem like you knew what you were talking about," Pelley said.

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"You've now mischaracterized my testimony and I'm not looking to let you get away with that," Eastman responded. [I]t didn't say 2,500 felons voted. It said, 'as many as.'"

"Too late to adjust the numbers now," Pelley countered. "You've already testified to the legislature, and there's a big difference between as many as 2,500 and the actual number of four."

Pelley also interviewed Greg Jacob for the segment, who worked as then-Vice President Mike Pence's legal counsel. Jacob recalled how, when rioters broke into the capitol on January 6, he told Eastman in an email that "thanks to your bull----, we are now under siege," and referred to the attorney as "a serpent in the ear of the president." Jacob also suggested that Eastman's legal theories were partly to blame for the mob violence at the capitol.

"The people who stormed the building believed that the vice president had authorities that he in fact did not have and that that was a motivating factor for them in storming the building," Jacob said. "[Eastman] was mostly concerned with the results and didn't really care how many laws had to be broken to get there."

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Eastman is known for authoring the legal memo making the case for Pence to call the election for Donald Trump while presiding over the official counting of electoral college votes in the US Senate. Eastman suggested that Pence could use alternate slates of electors submitted by Republican-controlled legislatures in swing states Joe Biden narrowly won — like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — to deny those electoral votes to Biden in the Senate's count.

Without those electoral college votes for Biden, Eastman theorized that Pence could declare Trump the winner given that he would have the advantage among the remaining states. After objections from Senate Democrats, Eastman further elaborated that Pence could send the matter of the election to the House of Representatives, where each state's delegation would get one vote. Because Republicans had control of 26 state delegations at the time, Eastman predicted Trump would be declared the winner, and the resulting fracas would allow Republican states more time to officially submit alternate slates of electors to justify Trump's victory.