less overthrow the election, pressured them almost every day, asking officials to say things that were not true, that they told him were not true, and trying to get them to do things without precedence and that were arguably not legal. watch. 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 s not what i m asking you to do. what i m asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. i made the point that jeff clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general. he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a trial jury. and he kind of retorted by saying, well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civ
thing when it mattered the most. and it took all of them. that was what was so powerful about having them altogether, they all had to show up as a united front to say if you do this, if you decide to replace jeffrey rose within jeffrey clark, we re here as representation of the justice department and we re all gone. it took all of them to put up this united front in order to stop this from happening. if one of them had caved, who knows what the outcome would have been? this use or attempted use of the department of justice, how does this compare to what you saw during the nixon administration? i worked in the department of justice initially before i went to the white house, i can tell you one thing, the people who day in and day out have been in that department for years, many of them, and they continue on through presidency after presidency, they re very strong, they re very loyal of the department, there is a spirit, even before the ethics rules
were written, they had an ethics in that department that is unlike anything else in the government. didn t surprise me at all they stood up, that these some of these men had come out of 14-year careers in the department. so i think they did their colleagues proud. and we never had a day like yesterday where the top of the department of justice leveled the presidency. what did you think about how close we came to constitutional crisis and what we learned yesterday, perhaps we came closer than we realized? i don t think trump could have ever accomplished what he wanted to accomplish. i don t think jeffrey clark could have made it. that would have beheaded the department. that s what would have happened. the image of that is something that dissuaded president trump and the meeting he had with all these it wasn t that it was illegal or that it was untoward, it was
more uneven. latest data shows that other smoking cessation devices, nicotine replacement gums were more effective. a new study said 60% of people who had used e-cigarettes to help stop smoking did relapse. i don t think the data is really strong on that point either. but, again, with juul, this was a safety issue. that s why the fda acted so quickly. sanjay, thank you very much. new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, june 24th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. a sentence that rang across the halls of the capitol and this morning, might very well be ringing into the courtroom. a day of sworn testimony about how former president trump relentlessly pressured the justice department to more or
no, certainly not. i sort of shutter to think what the situation would have been if the position of the department was we re not even looking at this until after biden s in office. i m not sure we would have had a transition at all. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. so much to talk about here, with my colleagues. i want to start with what bill barr said, if we could. bill barr basically saying, we had to entertain some of these looney tunes ideas. we had to investigate these conspiracy theories the president wanted us to investigate or he wasn t going to go away, there may not have been a transition. david gregory what do you think of that? the power of yesterday was to hear trump loyalists after all working in the justice department reminding the country and the world that they have principles, that is about the rule of law, and saying no, we re not going to do this.