selection loss, was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rosen a draft letter that he wanted you to sign and send to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have grave constitutional consequences. can you tell us what you meant by that? i had to read both emails in the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it. i read it and i did understand it for what he intended. and i had to sit down and serve , compose what that was an appropriate response. i went next door to the acting ig s office. he was not there. we both had an email. he was not in his offers. i returned my office. . this is not the departments role. to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but, more importantly, this was not based on fact. this is actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department investigati
no way on earth. i was going to meet with mr. johnson. i wasn t going to meet with mr. giuliani i made that clear repeatedly. that is the end of that. don t raise this with me again. so, because mr. donahue and i had the next ranging our views about this, it was 7:13 on a friday night of new year s day. i said, sent the email that you are talking about. i made pretty clear that i had no interest in doing anything further with this. just buttoned this up, did you receive a follow-up call from the department of defense special about this conspiracy? i did. i believe it was the same day.? can you give details on that at all? i received a telephone call from a dod official at the time.
this one, he called me. mr. meadows. and asked me to meet with mr. johnson. i told him this whole thing about italy has been debunked. and that should be the end of that. i certainly wasn t going to meet with this person. initially, he seemed to accept that. he said, you know, why won t you meet with him. i said because he has real evidence that this video doesn t show. he can walk into a field office anywhere in dates. he said okay. then he called me back a few minutes later and complained. he said i didn t tell you but this fellow johnson is working with rudy giuliani. and mr. giuliani is really offended that you say have to go to an fbi field office. that is insulting. couldn t you just have the eir you meet with these guys? and by then, i was somewhat agitated . and told him that there was
this is probably going to come out in italy at some point. and he was the mastermind, not the mastermind, but the, any rate, the guy running the operation. he was doing this in conjunction with some support from my sick. the cia. and this leonardo group. mr. donahue, what was your reaction when you want that entire 20 minute video? i emailed the acting attorney general and i said. and stanley. my impression of the video which was patently absurd absurd. you were asked by mr. meadows to meet with mr. johnson who is the person in that video. what was your reaction to that request? so, ordinarily, i get an email like this and there was no phone call. i just come over to trance them.
The Johnsons surprise Saturday wedding at Westminister Cathedral capped a roller-coaster week for the couple in which they were both mauled by the PM s ex-chief aide.