the 2020 election. alex holder joined me after his meeting today with the january 6th committee. he has turned over more than 11 hours of footage, but donald trump and his footage before the election. we have an exclusive clip from his trump documentary series. first, the explosive fifth january 6th committee hearing, and trumps explosive plot trying to strong-arm justice department leadership into keeping him in power. attempting to strong-arm officials to legitimize his election lies. namely, jeffrey clark and his attempt to take over the entire justice department to advance a two on the president s behalf. today, we learned more about a january 3rd meeting, where clark made a case to the president, to fire then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and to appoint him as attorney general. here, in the words of justice department officials, they all threatened to resign if the scheme went ahead and warned of even worse. i said, mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you w
today. you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchange former acting attorney general jeff rosen described in talking to trump during that time. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the location. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly, and said essentially that s not what i am asking you to do. what i am just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. reporter: and when it
what nuclear materials may or may not have been there. i do not believe there were any in their. tonight new details on the 11 sets of classified records taken from donald trump s home. plus a new line of defence from trump s defenders. obamas got boxes of stuff in chicago and new movement on the other charges potentially facing the ex president. obstruction of justice is a crime. and it s a crime we take seriously. tonight, my interview with congressman jamie raskin on the investigation of donald trump and the historic legislation democrats just passed in the house, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m alicia menendez, in four chris hayes. the ex president of the united states florida home was searched earlier this week in relation to possible violations of the espionage act. that is just one of the many revelations gleaned from the search warrant for trump s florida property, mar-a-lago. in total, fbi agents confiscated about 20 boxes of
the january 6th hearing today. our continuing coverage along with our panel of parts, who i m going bring in in a moment. but what s going on today is another set of break-throughs in this set of hearings, include people naming names. we re learning which specific republican lawmakers were literally asking for last-minute pardons for their own conduct. the focus today is how the committee laid out this new evidence of donald trump s efforts to get people installed and promoted within the department of justice to carry out a coup. three doj officials testifying about what they did, including a tense oval office meeting with resignations with that coup plot moved forward. this was happening in the hairy days before january 6th and drew on testimony both live and in these video taped depositions like you see here. jeffrey clark, more on his liam problems in a moment, was the one that was going to be bodying up to take over the justice department for the explicit purpose of layin
saying he declassified all those documents. in reaction and a second let s go to david spunt, there is a lot of new since then. a lot of news and we ve been on tv and we will continue to do so. check with the department of justice, no further comment from the doj after merrick garland s comments were he announced he was behind an order of the application the search warrant in mar-a-lago. this is the search and seizure warrant released today and the federal search and seizure warrant for mar-a-lago. i want to put up a graphic that shows you some of the highlights of what was confiscated by the fbi at the raid monday at mar-a-lago. four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, four sets of confidential documents, and executive grant of clemency to roger stone, one of the president s longtime associates unspecified binders of photos. we got this list right here, a receipt for property that explains other things like pictures, binders, some other boxes take