on the paul eastmans of the world. the testimony today coupled with the testimony earlier, this is not like some eastman thing, this is not some people who invaded the capitol on their own. this is donald trump at the center. he s the hub of the criminal conspiracy. i am so struck now by where this january 3rd showdown in the oval office takes place in the time line of what we already know. it s saturday night around this is obviously when trump s nocturnal impulses are most rage filled. saturday night, he s on the phone with raffensperger asking him to find 11,800 votes. raffensperger rebuts him, so all he s got sunday night by 8:00 is jeffrey clark. his attempts to corrupt up and down the line failed. and we know that call leaked by sunday night, or at least while the meeting was going on. you have to look at trump s role in the fake electors plot
department for the explicit purpose of laying the ground work to overturn the election. while a former white house lawyer recounted, reaction to that plan. when he finished discussing what he planned doing, i said good [ bleep ] excuse me, sorry. i said, congratulations you just admitted the first step or act you ll take as the attorney general is a violating. you re clearly the right candidate for that job. you re looking at the overhead of what it was like, reconstructed inside the oval office, and the words you heard are someone who s, like so many, witnesses loyal to the donald trump s political and policy agenda, but warning that the plan to bring in mr. clark we re going to hear more and more about him, was a plan that began with a felony. that dramatic oval office showdown is what stopped this. trump was going to potentially decapitate the doj.
hearing day in and day out is a guy named donald trump. to me, it is unthinkable that there is now not a criminal investigation at the justice department right now and that donald trump is part of that investigation. wow. no target yet, but it does mean he s swept up in the investigation itself. it s very significant. when i saw that news alert today i did a double-check. mr. clark, though, really? i started double-checking because it seemed to big. that s why it s big. paul, what would they be looking for in his home? so, evidence related to his conversations with donald trump, who has got to be a subject of the same criminal investigation that clark is a subject of. is it just a coincidence that the same day that the hearing focuses on jeffrey clark? the fbi raids his house in the middle of the morning? that s not a coincidence. it s important to remember, these hearings are not trials. they re more like status reports
like jivanka, they don t want anything insinuating they ve committed felonies. going into the 20th, this was a second impeachment. there was concern there were leaks from mcconnell as office. if donald trump tried to pardon them or self-pardon, which creates a new legal question, that hand over a big steaming indictment to the senate to say, agree with him and ban him from running for office. may have been looking at what his good fortune during the impeachments where there s no accountability, gets away with everything. assumes he gets away with this as well. for the record, maybe he s the subject of a federal criminal investigation, but maybe not. neal, final thought before we lose you. that brings me to one thing. i totally respect rich donahue, steve engle, jeffrey rosen did today in testifying. but there was a second impeachment. where were three for all this?
this stuff. and this is coming on the heels of the president having mentioned mr. clark. then there s the evidence, text messages from that afore mentions congressman to trump s chef of staff saying, 11 days till january 6th. you should call jeff. again, incriminaing because that day, the 6th we ve heard was so out of control and unpredictable was on the minds of so many individuals working inside the government to override your votes and steal this election from you, the american people. then they did get in touch with clark. trump was intent on making him head of the doj he could steal the election. you ve seen barr stand up the trump, so it wasn t something that could be a slam dunk actionable coup, but it was donald trump pushing to the very end to try to get that coup help on the inside. then there s these official call logs.