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let's bring in sara murray and elie honig on this story. sara, what did trump's lawyers think that justice thomas could do for them? >> well, essentially, they were hoping that justice thomas would weigh in and cast votes in objection. saying we want to frame things so thomas could be the one to issue essentially a temporary order putting results in doubt. this is from one of the trump attorney, saying that's the only chance to stop congress from certifying the electoral vote on january 6. as you dig further into the email chains, you also get a sense what a long shot this was. later in the email, the chief says there's a 1% chance that the supreme court would have actually intervened before january 6. >> let's be clear, elie, these is cheeserow and thomas in this. there's no evidence that the justice was involved in this. his wife was quite involved at the state level. this raises even more questions about why justice thomas didn't recuse himself from election-related matters before the court? >> yeah, brianna, this is exactly why people a