republican party, who was not speaking out, and doing what is right, is going to have, you know, their conscience, to deal with. it is not just the leaders right now, but then, it also goes down to the voters, and that is the ultimate question, right now. chris, i want to play more of what acting deputy attorney general richard donahue said in his testimony today. take a listen. the december 27th conversation, was, in my mind, and escalation of the earlier conversations, as the former acting ag indicated, there were a lot of negations which preceded that in the month of december, the president s entreaties became more urgent, he became more adamant that we were not doing our job, we need to step up and do our job. and come he had this arsenal of allegations, that he wanted to rely on. so, i felt in that
do it. he ordered his deputy attorney to do it. refused to do it. what we did not know is when york did it was the agreement among the three of them, nixon, the attorney general, would both resign and refuse to do it. they made a compliment to the senate that they would only fire cox for gross improprioties. they wanted someone in the department of justice so nixon would not put one of his cronies in. donahue noted he was unqualified to lead the doj. on january 3rd there were white house call log that refer to jeffrey clark as the acting ag. did trump just assume he would get his way? of course, he thought he would put him in there. he was put in there as a puppet. what i found disturbing is
but at this point, i asked the acting ag, what else can i do to help prepare for this meeting at the oval office? and he said, you and pat should get the ags on the phone and it is time to let them know what is going on. let s find out what they may do if there is a change in leadership, because that will inform the conversation at the oval office. subsequently said at that meeting, and we got most, not most but all of the ags on the phone. and very quickly explain to them what the situation was, and i told them, i don t need an answer from you right now, i don t need an answer in his phone call, but if you have an answer, i need it in the next few minutes. so, call me, email me, text me, whatever it is and if you know what you would do, if jeff clark is put in charge of the department, and immediately, eric dreiband, who is the ag of
a close hold because we did not want to create a concern or panic in the justice department leadership. but at this point, i asked the acting ag, what else can i do to help prepare for this meeting at the oval office? and he said, you and pat should get the ags on the phone and it is time to let them know what is going on. let s find out what they may do if there is a change in leadership, because that will inform the conversation at the oval office. heather robinson, subsequently set up a meeting, and we got most or all of the ags on the phone, and very quickly explained to them with the situation was, and i told them, i don t need an answer from you right now, i don t need an answer to this phone call, but if you have an answer i needed the next few minutes. so, call me, email me, text me, whatever it is and if you know what you would do, if jeff clark is put in charge of the department, and immediately,
0 me or met with me virtually every day. the president, throughout all these meetings and telephone conversations, was adamant that he had one and that we were not doing our job. the president said, just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gaetz and mr. brooks mr. gaetz was the first to ask for a pardon. [inaudible] i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought that it was [inaudible] how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace with [inaudible] jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. rachel maddow,