president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj compla comp can t and won t snap its fingers and change the election. how did the president respond to that? he responded very quickly and said essentially that s not what i m asking you do, what i m asking you do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. michael, do you agree with dave that that speaks to the former president s intent here? absolutely. and i also would add to that that on the january 3 meeting in the white house, rosen and trump were having a conversation and trump says to rosen, you are not going to do anything about this, are you? you re not going to send this proof of concept letter that clark drafted this fraudulent letter about fraud in georgia. and he said i m absolutely not going to do anything about it. and he said i can t do anything about it, it is unconstitutional, it is illegal, and in the aftermath of that, trump still moved forwa