legal analyst elie honig called, and these are his words, stark evidence of an michigan mad. cnn s paula reid has that story. reporter: new emails released monday by democrats on the house oversight committee show how white house chief of staff mark meadows pressured the justice department at least five times to investigate conspiracy theories. in one exchange, he wanted rosen to arrange an fbi meeting with an ally of rudy giuliani who is pushing a conspiracy. a friend of mine says i don t believe in conspiracies but i also don t believe in coincidences. reporter: rosen would not. emailing his deputy i flatly refuse, said i would not be giving any special treatment to giuliani or any of his witnesses. the emails also reveal how the president directed other allies to press rosen to join the legal effort to challenge election results. on december 29th, kurt olson, a
newly released emails from the house oversight committee show how former u.s. president donald trump and his allies pressured top justice department officials to investigate false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. former white house chief of staff mark meadows was among those trump allies. cnn s jessica schneider has the details. reporter: newly released emails reveal how president donald trump s allies pressured then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen to investigate false allegations that the 2020 election had been stole snoon this election was stolen. reporter: as trump repeatedly made the false claims in the weeks after the election, emails show repeated efforts from white house chief of staff mark meadows to justice officials asking them to probe questionable reports about voter fraud around the country and even a conspiracy theory floated by an ally of rudy giuliani that italy was using mitt tear technology and sat lies to
thank you very much. reporter: tonight president trump ignoring a question about his fired national security adviser, michael flynn, after new documents show that flynn was warned he was prohibited from receiving payments from foreign governments. thank you so much for for inviting me and having me here. reporter: this one year on before he accepted tens of thousands of dollars from russian state television for this speaking engagement in moscow in 2015. the documents released by the house oversight committee show that the dia informed flynn that he could not receive, quote, consulting fees, gifts, travel expenses, honoria or salary from foreign governments during retirement. despite the warning, the dia told the committee in the record they could not locate records referring or relating to general flynn s receipt of money from a foreign source, and the dia did not locate records from general flynn seeking permission or approval for the receipt of money. and we have no evid