it is specific we have article 1 there a long list of powers, the longest article in the constitution it very specific. a long list. you it study it you will not find the power to conduct a criminal investigation. it violates separation of powers. congress is made up of politicians. congress was never set up to conduct criminal investigations any of sort or criminal investigations as part of a justice department, u.s. attorney s effort, to target an individual or group of individuals. so beyond the outrageous make-up of january 6 committees, entire enterprise of the january 6 committee is unconstitutional. in is not a single judge in washington, d.c. not one, who has reached that conclusion. yet this goes to the heart of our constitutional construct. you can t have joe biden making legislation by executive orders or congress investigating not for legislative purposes but criminal purposes and to set up individuals and violate the bill of rights, you cannot have the courts leg
two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her father s goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e results of the 2020 election and throw out votes from people who might not have voted for him. alex holder had extensive access to the 2020 trump campaign for this documentary that s going to air later this summer on the streaming service discovery plus which we should know shares the same parent company as cnn. discovery provided the clips to cnn. let s look now at the first clip from alex holder s documentary. you re going to see part of an interview with then vice president mike pence on jan
department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says it s going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when today s witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in today s hearing, congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, one of only two republicans on the panel. all this comes after the select committee deposed filmmaker alex holder behind closed doors this morning about his documentary, which features never-before-seen interviews with trump and me members of his inner circle, both before and after january 6th. cnn has gotten first look at the documentary. we ve been sharing some of these key clips. as the committee is about to focus on jeffrey clark, let
presidency. he didn t send out the department of homeland security to get drop boxes or fire acting attorney general, has some suggests, he did not appoint a special counsel as some suggested. he didn t do any of that. he would have done it, if he were actually leading an insurrection, we wouldn t beholding 8 hearings it would be obvious to everyone. we get former disgruntle illed administration employees and people giving their opinions and infrances, one sided this comity had all power to do what they want, they have no fingerprints ordain dna nothing of donald trump on january 6 violence, but they keep talking insurrection, insurrection. what are they talking about?
pushing trump s false election claims and who trump talked about, discussed, trying to appoint to be the attorney general and who will figure prominently in today s hearing. i m jake tapper. this is cnn s special coverage. attack on democracy, the january 6th hearings. aides to the house select committee say today s hearing will zero in on all the ways then president trump tried to pressure justice department officials, including pushing them to publicly say that there was widespread voter fraud, when they, in fact, had found none. and threatening to fire acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, who was holding firm against trump s demand. rosen will testify live today along with some other former justice department officials who stood up to trump s lies on this matter. rosen s deputy, richard donoghue, and steven engel, who was head of the office of legal counsel, they warned trump of mass resignations at the justice