Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is in trouble "up to his neck" amid the ongoing January 6 probe of ex-President Donald Trump, according to legal analyst Glenn Kirschner.

During the latest episode of his Justice Matters podcast on Monday, Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, discussed a Washington Post article claiming that Meadows "joked" about 2020 presidential election falsehoods pushed by his old boss before the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The article claimed that Meadows mocked Trump in a series of text messages over false claims that President Joe Biden was elected due to thousands of votes by "dead people." Kirschner suggested that Meadows could be under intense legal pressure due in part to pushing false election claims after purportedly acknowledging that they were not true.

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"Knowing there was no fraud, Mark Meadows persisted ... in his false claims that there was significant election fraud," Kirschner said. "He continued to assist and enable a criminal president in that president's efforts to overturn the results of a presidential election, to thwart the will of the American voters."

"Mark Meadows is in it up to his neck," he continued. "The only question that remains is will Mark Meadows be a cooperating witness, or will he be a marquee defendant who is indicted together with Donald Trump?"

Kirschner then said that he was not certain whether Meadows had cooperated with Special Counsel Jack Smith's...

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