scheme with trump. hey, jeffrey rosen, you sign on to this letter, and we re going to send it to the republican controlled legislatures to overturn the results. if you don t sign on, you will be fired and replaced with a guy who will do it instead of you. that s what jeffrey rosen was told. he was acting attorney general. the deputy attorney general was rich donaghue. in his interview with the investigation and the senate judiciary committee, his interview also unsealed today, he explains what it was like to talk to trump about this scheme, about this plot at the white house on january 3rd, three days before the january attack. he said, when i came in in, the president in the oval office has a guy sitting in front of him, jeff clark, who is willing
letter, the guy who concocted and pursuing this scheme. jeffrey rosen, you sign on to this letter and we re going to send it to the republican controlled legislatures to overturn the results. if you don t sign on, you will be fired and replaced with a guy who will do it instead of you. that s what jeffrey rosen was told. he was acting attorney general. the deputy attorney general was rich donaghue. he explains what it was like to talk to trump about this scream about this scheme. out this .
threatened the attorney general. if you don t sign, i will be attorney general and i will sign it. they will tell republicans in the state legislatures where biden won that the justice department is treating the election as a crime scene. they should throw out the election results, take steps to keep trump in office. this guy is willing to do it. trump is very willing to put him in charge of the justice department so he can carry out that plot. what stops is that everybody else in the justice department says they will quit, make a stink, it might look bad. that s what stops it. it s dramatic stuff. these justice department officials we know apparently white house council and his deputy all threatening to resign in this circumstance makes them the stars of their own movies here. makes them seem like they really saved us. here is the problem. here is the problem not just for
regulations. he has been a driving force behind saying to the president, look, don t sign on on to the paris climate change treaty. so where has he gone astray in your view as a matter of public health? well, let s talk about this. all of those issues, the only thing that scott pruitt talks about or seems to consider is whether or not it s reducing costs to business. now, i understand you want to keep costs low and keep the economy moving. but his job is to protect public health and the environment in ways that continue to keep the economy moving. and i would suggest to you let s just look at the rule. all laws are proposed to be changed. none of them are gone. none of them. and i highly suspect with the way he has locked himself in a room and not engaged the korea staff, fundamentally looking at science and the law correctly, that when you go to court you will see that we will continue
immediately be made up for. it affects both the middle class and people below the middle class, and then also travel to turkey, building projects, a lot of different things across the board are stopping because of what s going on. so even though you might look and say economically it would be in everyone s interest to solve this, there s still a lot of emotion to this and anger over that shoot down. a good point. cnn, jill joining us from moscow this morning. a quarter past 11:00 there. a group of high level diplomats say a deal is the culmination of talks by representatives from 17 countries led by italy and the united states. it calls for an mediate cease fire and threatens to cut off contacts with factions that don t sign on. john kerry said the unified