CBS’ Scott Pelley Throws Down With Indicted Pro-Trump Lawyer John Eastman: ‘Doesn’t Seem Like You Knew What You Were Talking About’

CBS’ Scott Pelley took on pro-Trump attorney John Eastman in a tense battle on 60 Minutes Sunday night.

Among the topics the two discussed; the claims Eastman made to the Georgia legislature — in an effort to get them to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Eastman has been charged with nine criminal counts in the Georgia election case. Pelley challenged Eastman — citing the findings from the investigation conducted by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican.

“You said 2,500 convicts (voted), the investigation found four,” Pelley said. “You said 10,000 dead voters, the investigation found four. It doesn’t seem like you knew what you were talking about.”

“You’ve now mischaracterized my testimony and I’m not looking to let you get away with that,” Eastman shot back. “But they were based on the expert analysis. And it didn’t say 2,500 felons voted. It said, ‘as many as.’ It acknowledged the limitation of the data they had. And the analysis that was conducted, contrary analysis that was provide by the secretary of state, was simply a press conference. I’d love to see the data and we will adjust the numbers as the complaint that was filed the next day said we would once we got the additional data.

But Pelley noted that Eastman expressed much more certainty about his figures during his testimony before the Georgia legislature.

“Too late to adjust the numbers now,” Pelley said. “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.”

Eastman again tried to raise doubt.

“Well, we don’t know the actual number is four because the secretary of state has declined to give us the information on which that analysis was based,” Eastman said.

Pelley questioned why Eastman thinks no state reported 2020 election fraud — if he believes there’s so much evidence to support that claim.

“I think we are quickly turning into a country where there’s the pro-government party, or the Uni-party, one might euphemistically call it, and folks that are concerned about the direction our country is going, the MAGA movement, the tea party movement before that if you will and the folks in those government offices tend to be on the one side of that dispute rather than the other,” Eastman said.

“And you say they’re covering it up,” Pelley said.

“Well, certainly they’re not investigating it to the level I think the evidence warrants,” Eastman said.

Pelley added, “Further investigation was pursued — by Georgia prosecutors. a grand jury indicted 19 defendants, including the former president, alleging a conspiracy to overturn the election, including false statements ‘…to persuade Georgia legislators to reject lawful electoral votes…’

Watch above, via CBS.