>>> WELCOME BACK. FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS WILL TRY TO GET HIS RACKETEERING TRIAL MOVED TO FEDERAL COURT. ATTORNEYS ARE LOOKING AT A 234 YEAR-OLD STATUTE IN HOPES OF TRANSFERRING HIS CHARGES IN THE FULTON COUNTY ELECTION INTERFERENCE CASE. THE MAKE THE ARGUMENT HAS ALLEGED CRIMES APART BENEFICIAL WHITE HOUSE DUTY UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. MEADOWS ALONG WITH TRUMP AND OTHER DEFENDANTS ARE FACING CHARGES IN FULTON COUNTY BROUGHT BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FANI WILLIS. WITH MORE IS OUR CORRESPONDENT BLAYNE ALEXANDER IN ATLANTA. IN SEPTEMBER THE U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE RULED THAT MEADOWS DID NOT MEET THE THRESHOLD TO MOVE THE CASE TO FEDERAL COURT. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TODAY AND WHAT IS MEADOWS HOPING TO GET OUT OF THIS? >> Reporter: WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO IS OVERTURN THE RULING. THIS IS THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AND THEY ARE BASICALLY ARGUING BEFORE A PANEL OF FEDERAL JUDGES THE MEADOWS TEAM IS SINKING HE WAS CHIEF OF STAFF AT THE TIME SO EVERYTHING HE DID WAS IN THE NAME OF HIS FORMER BOSS AND FALLS UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF HIS FEDERAL DUTIES. AS WE SAW IN SEPTEMBER, A JUDGE RULED THAT IS NOT THE CASE. HE'S LOOKING OUTSIDE THE COLOR OF HIS DUTIES AT JESUS STEP AND WAS WORKING MORE ON THE CAMPAIGN SIDE BASICALLY SAYING HE WAS WORKING MORE FOR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. THINGS HE HAD TO DO HAD TO DO MORE WITH THE ELECTION THEN DUTIES AS CHIEF OF STAFF. BOTH SIDES GET ABOUT 15 MINUTES SO WE EXPECTED TO BE A SHORT HEARING. >> WHAT WILL MEADOWS NEED TO PROVE IN ORDER FOR THE APPEALS COURT TO RULE IN HIS FAVOR COLLECTS >> Reporter: HE HAS TO PROVE HIS DUTIES HAD TO DO WITH HIS SPECIFIC DUTIES OR ACTIONS AS CHIEF OF STAFF. IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMIND VIEWERS WHAT HE'S BEING CHARGED WITH. THIS HAS TO DO WITH HIS SETTING UP A PHONE CALL BETWEEN THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE IN GEORGIA BRAD RAFFENSPERGER AND WAS THE PRESIDENT ASKED RAFFENSPERGER TO FIND VOTES TO OVERTURN THE BIDEN ELECTRIC VICTORY PICK MEADOWS SET UP A CALL AND THAT'S WHY HE'S BEING CHARGED ANOTHER HAS TO DO WITH HIS INVOLVEMENT IN TRYING TO GET VOICES OUT THERE. HE IS ARGUING AND FALLS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF FEDERAL DUTIES. WHY DOES HE WANT TO GET A TRANSFERRED BECAUSE IF YOU WERE ABLE TO GET A TRANSFER TO FEDERAL COURT COME OF THAT MEANS HE COULD ARGUE IMMUNITY SAYING I WAS ASKING -- ACTING AS A FEDERAL OFFICER. EVEN IF HE IS NOT ABLE TO CLAIM THAT AND IT GOES TO TRIAL IN THE FEDERAL COURTS, HE WILL BE ABLE TO LIKELY DRAW FROM A MORE FAVORABLE JURY POOL RATHER THAN JUST FULTON COUNTY CITIZENS, WHICH IS A VERY BLUE COUNTY. WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ENTIRE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA WHICH INCLUDES A LOT OF RED COUNTIES. IBBOTSON FEDERAL COURT IT WOULD NOT BE ON TV, SOMETHING MEADOWS WOULD LIKELY TRY TO AVOID. >> INTERESTING DETAIL. HAS THE FULTON COUNTY D.A. SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THIS? >> Reporter: SHE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS AND NOT NECESSARILY THIS PICK WHAT SHE HAS TALKED ABOUT IS THE TRIAL DATE PICTURES PUSHING FOR AN AUGUST TRIAL DATE. SHE DOES NOT WANT TO TRY THE REMAINING DEFENDANT SEPARATELY. SHE WANTS TO TRY ALL 15 TOGETHER AND SHE SAID THE ARGUMENT MADE BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT, SAYING IF THERE WAS A TRIAL GOING ON DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE 2024 CAMPAIGN, THAT WOULD AMOUNT TO ELECTION INTERFERENCE. SHE SAID IT REPEATEDLY THAT SHE FINDS THIS RIDICULOUS AND A DEFENDANT WOULD HAVE THEIR CHARGES REMOVED BECAUSE THEY ARE RUNNING IN AN ELECTION. SHE SAID THAT WOULD BASICALLY MEAN ANYONE CHARGED WITH A CRIME COULD GO RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL AND HAVE THEIR CHARGES WIPED AWAY. SHE SAID THAT'S A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT TO SET THAT'S WHY SHE'S NOT FOCUSING ON THAT MOVING AHEAD. >> WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OTHER DEFENDANTS AND SHE WINS THAT WHEN AS A WHOLE? >> MANY PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THIS PICK OTHERS HAVE TIED THEIR COATTAILS AND WANTED TO MOVE THEIR CASES TO FEDERAL COURT. CERTAINLY IF THIS IS MOVED TO FEDERAL COURT, IT WAS SAID AN INTERESTING PREC