tonight for this prime time recap of today s january 6th hearing. we could not do it without you. we will of course bring you coverage of the investigation s future hears when they start up next month. way too early with jonathan lemire is up next. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, d.o.j. can t and won t snap its fingers an change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said essentially that s not what i m asking you to do, what i m asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress. that s the key line into the yesterday hearing from the capitol attack, called quote the smoking gun from one top criminal lawyer and said it speaks to trump s criminal intent. more on that.
of the doj. listen to this. let s take a look at another one of your notes. 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 election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly, and said, essentially, that is not what i am asking you to do. what i am asking you to do is, say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. it is astounding that he is saying this to a top doj official. is this criminal behavior? to me, that line, just say there was fraud, that is the crux of what you would be looking at if you re thinking of charging obstruction of justice or conspiracy to defraud the united states. by the way, there is no real question in my mind that he said it, richard donoghue is a credible witness who took contemporaneous notes while he is on that phone call. you see his handwritten notes. i didn t have any question that donald trump said that, and th
noted earlier today, as we will be noting a lot as we move forward if in fact the testimony is true that gives some sense of an awareness, a notion that there is possibly something being done illegally here and it shouldn t be done. really important to note all of the implication of all of these people in this testimony is not coming from democrats, progressive, liberals, people who are out to get them. the implications are coming from the trump team, from people within trump land, which is going to make it difficult for them to keep saying i wasn t involved, everyone is lying about me. very helpful context. tom foreman, thank you. so one of the key moments from the latest hearing was this from former acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue. let s take a look at another one of your notes. 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
the issue of sending a letter to state legislatures in georgia. on december 13th an organization called the allied security group issued a report that the dominion machines had a 68% error rate. you noted that mr. roz ebb said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir. he responded very quickly and said essentially, that is not what i m asking to you do. what i m just asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. just say the investigation was corrupt and leave it to me and the republican congressman. that is an exact quote from the president? that is an exact quote from the president, yes.
led by steve engle as well as the office of the solicitor general, researched it and gave us thorough clear opinions that we didn t have standing and we tried to explain that to the president on numerous occasions. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that? he responded quickly and said that s not what i m asking you to do. i m asking you to say it was corrupt and leave it up to me and the republican congressmen. let s put up the notes where you quote the president you said the president said just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. so mr. donahue, that is a direct quote from president trump, correct? that s an exact quote from the president, yes.