extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the panel told the doj about the contact by the former president. the committee focused on a late night verbal brawl in the oval office with trump loyalists fighting with white house attorneys, including pat cipollone who just talked to the committee on friday. i don t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. in the conclave, trump advisers challenged top white house aides that they needed to go to the mat for the former president. i m going to categorically des
insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm
good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today was a very, very busy day on the hill. the fifth january 6th hearing, and we saw even more revelations of just how far former president donald trump was willing to go to stay in office. front and center. how the former president attempted to strong-arm officials and his own justice department to overturn the 2020 election. the riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general, jeff rosen, his deputy, richard donoghue and ha council stephen engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud. so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, president either called me or met with me virtually every day. on december 13th, an organization called the allied security group issued a report that alleged that the dominion voting machines in that county had a secret 68% error rate. he was adamant that the report must be accurate, that proof that he in fact won
on december 13th, an organization called the allied security group issued a report that alleged that the dominion voting machines in that county had a secret 68% error rate. he was adamant that the report must be accurate, that proof that the election was defective. that he in fact won the election, and that the department should be using that report to basically, tell the american people that the results were not trustworthy. one of just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me in the republican congressman. the committee also exposed how a low level doj guy, jeffrey clark, was instrumental in trump s plan. clark and another trump loyalist were behind a draft letter to state officials down in georgia, calling joe biden s win into question. this letter claims that the u.s. department of justice s investigations have, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states. the departmen
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga