president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection released transcripts from interviews with 46 additional witnesses on Friday after releasing its first round of transcripts on Wednesday. The witnesses from this round of transcripts released include former Attorney General William Barr, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, former White House counsel Pat…
effort to get this false letter out there. so to the point of criminal knowledge, criminal intent, i think both of these conversations speak exactly to that. it is interesting, one of the new things we learned yesterday is that on the white house call logs, before that meet being even takes place, someone in the white house had actually characterized clarkbeing even takes place, someone in the white house had actually characterized clark as the acting attorney general. which means even before trump confronted rosen and says you are not going to do any of this, are you, internally within the white house they had named somebody else to the job. so i wonder, dave, if that is what you might call an affirmative act in legal sense. yes, although trump may just blame it on the coffee boy to making that mistake. but, yes, jeffrey clark was the biggest loser of the day yesterday. he was portrayed rightly so as some bomb villain, he was given the john eastman treatment. he tried to achieve h