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
really providing some added intrigue to these house hearings on january 6th. the committee now has possession of this documentary. they are reviewing it, reviewing clips of it and revie viewing according to sources who spoke to cnn, hours and hours of footage and out takes from this documentary. the documentary is called unprecedented. made by brittic filmmaker alec holder. going to be released later this summer discovery plus, who is owned by cnn s parent company. now, as part of this documentary, filmmaker, alex holder, interviewed donald trump two months after the january-6th insurrection. here is a clip from that part of the documentary. can we talk for a minute about january 6th? yeah. well, it was a sad day but a day where there was great angry in our country. people went to washington
of depositions. but from a political perspective and from you know, they have been trying to make a case to people who were willing to support donald trump and who may potentially be donald trump voters in 2024 this is not acceptable. that what we saw play out was not acceptable and to the extent that the content of the documentary, and hear mrg about what was going on behind the scenes, in the minds of the president s supporters, closest aides, the family, and the president himself. i think able to juxtapose that against what the committee is showing we twally know now potentially does help the political case, if not the legal one. i am anxious, jeffrey, to get your thoughts on the evidence released at the end of the hearing today on these republican members of congress actually seeking pardons protectively from the white house because of what happened on january 6th. well, it really fits into the overall story we are -er we re seeing here, which is the the err of criminal
that was a very powerful, very, very dramatic moment. it was. in fact, the committee presented not only testimony but other evidence in the form of an e-mail of congressman mo brooks as sending a letter to the white house saying that he would like a pardon along with matt gaetz, and other republican allies who had voted to decertify the results in pennsylvania, um, and arizona. so you have an e-mail that the committee showed. also, testimony from a former-meadows aide talking about how congressman perry he was denied and she said no, he actually asked her directly for a pardon. and several other congressmen, as well. andy biggs and louie gohmert also according to what the committee displayed today, asking for pardons. again, perry has denied it. matt gaetz released a tweet earlier earlier just before i came on,
day, which was that the justice department which many people has regarded as asleep at the switch. today or yesterday searched the home of jeffrey jeffrey clark as a apparently, it seems, part of the january-6th investigation. so, this isn t just congress investigating, um, january 6th. in the white house. this is now the justice department using search warrants, as well. this was the biggest day of t the of the january 6th investigation, in every respect. certainly was. the the fact that they raided this former-justice department official s home out in suburban virginia just outside of wash ash d.c. very, very dramatic moment indeed. k date kaitlan, it seemed based on all the testimony he heard today, trump was getting increasingly desperate by the day. very desperate and they kind of tried to draw the distenkz at the end. the committee did saying he had his option, his effort to go to court. to try to challenge this in a