of them would have resigned, and that would then have led to resignations across the department in washington. and i said, mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, could you have hundreds and hundreds of resignations of the leadership of your entire justice department because of your actions. what s that going to say about you? i should point out that stopped that was a turning point. that stopped the president s efforts to subvert the department of justice, to get the department of justice to say that the election was corrupt. however, it didn t stop the president and his attempted coup. three days later, january 6th, the president was out there in front of that crowd, repeating all the same lies that all his members from the department of justice except jeffrey clark had told him were completely false. he was saying those things, the exact same lies, to that crowd, telling them to march on the capitol. also today, the committee
whatever tool at his disposal to overturn an election that he lost? right. and the biggest tool is jeffrey clark by the way. correct, in more ways than one. ba dum bum. thank you. i ve been here all week. but that comment suggests in a very direct way that he knows he s lost and that all he wants to do is keep the balls in the air so that it can go to the house republicans who can take over from that point. that comment is so devastating to trump. it also his failure with the department of justice then shows you how awful january 6th i mean as if it wasn t awful enough, we now know it was his failure to corrupt these guys, and now he s just knowingly spreading these lies.
time. this was thoroughly investigated by the senate judiciary committee, so why did it take them so long to get you know, and was it that they decided to raid jeffrey clark s house because he was going to be the subject of this big investigation and hearing today? but having talked to some attorneys today, it takes a lot to be able to raid. you ve got to have you ve got to convince a magistrate that you need to go and raid the guy s house. you need to convince them that you can t just ask him for the evidence, that he might destroy it. it seems odd a year and a half later, but apparently they had some pressing new evidence and reason for needing to raid his house. you might remember, nia-malika, just a few days ago, justice department officials were complaining that the committee, the january 6th committee, was not sharing transcripts enough. it s possible this is pure speculation by me. it s possible that the committee started handing over these transcripts. they knew that
investigate voter fraud. we heard that in the testimony today from these witnesses speaking under oath, saying they chased down these various voter fraud claims and turned up empty. but despite that, jeffrey clark wanted to take it even further, using the power of doj allegedly to overturn the election results, jake. all right. pamela brown, thanks. let s talk about the raid more. back with us, jamie gangel, dana bash, chris wallace, and nia-malika henderson. chris, obviously there was a lot of people investigating voter fraud. u.s. attorneys, justice department officials, elections officials. that s not what jeffrey clark s being investigated for. no, of course not. we heard today in chapter and verse he s obviously being investigated because he was pushing this idea that the justice department should say that they had found evidence of fraud when they hadn t found evidence of fraud. i find the timing of this odd because on the one hand, you say to yourself, well, gosh, this has b
and then after that and they are going to resign en masse, he goes, well, how about a truck full of these ballots? i mean, every turn, he wanted an army of yes-men, and he found one, unfortunately, on january 6. so what more do you need to prove intent? this is a president who went everywhere, and he was asking about every conspiracy theory that existed, whether it was satellites in italy or whether it was ballots in china, and at every juncture, he was rebuffed, particularly by the justice department, which were told, he became obsessed with the justice department. he becomes more and more and more manic. and what finally convinces him not to replace rosen with clark is rosen saying to him, you know, if you do that, and everybody leaves, and clark is providing over a graveyard, what does that say about you? and once he heard that, because, of course, it s all