the final days of the trump administration. he was all over the report last about month about trump s attempts to overturn the election. he met with trump personally and urged the justice department to overturn the election, and called the georgia proof of concept. he s the guy who tried to take his own boss job. clark eventually informed acting attorney rosen that trump had offered to install him in rosen s place and told rosen he would turn down trump s offer if rosen would agree to sign the proof of concept letter. jeffrey clark has denied he plotted to oust the attorney general. he wouldn t sit down for a voluntary interview, but he was subpoenaed by the house investigating committee. so today clark appeared before the committee, and appeared before the panel for less than two hours. his attorney provided a letter saying mr. clark will abide by a
understanding this is probably unorthodox. somewhere along the line of unorthodox to entirely wrong orr possibly illegal and trying to not commit to anything. right. and you see that in an implicit gentle way. in rosen s testimony before congress, back in may. he made a point of spelling out all the things he did not do, in that time period. and i think, in hindsight, now that we know about these phone calls, i think in hindsight that testimony stands out more anhosiy as rosen sort of tryingd to draw a line for people, even though he didn t feel he could say it publicly. of look, whatever was said to me, whatever, you know, was brought my way, i did not go down the road that some of these folks wanted us to go down.hagh great reporting, dev lin. important reporting that this that may be before us in a matter of days, as congress investigates january 6th and the accusations about election fraud. washington post reporter out
top aide to rosen named richard donahue who was present during some of the conversations. those notes could soon be turned over to the senate judiciary committee as part of its probe why bill barr so suddenly left the justice department after the election. those notes could head to congress in a matter of days unless donald trump moves to block thatve from happening. joining us now is develin harris. thank you for the reporting and being here tonight. as unorthodox as things were during the donald trump t presidency, this goes further, the idea of a president dealing in his own personal interest with the attorney general is stuff we think about when we think of richard nixon. right. and one of the things we ve all been working to understand a little better is exactly how hands-on did trump get with his aides and senior officials as he pushed for this and as he sought
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