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
trump s justice department. these aren t rinos or liberal democrats. these aren t bureaucrats. trump appointed these people. when trump announced bill barr s resignation on twitter, he praised both of them. he said they were amazing, wonderful people. so, trump yes. trump elevated them and praised them. so why is jeffrey rosen the attorney general at this point? acting attorney general is his title but he s the top law enforcement. he s the attorney general because, as bill barr told the committee, i couldn t take it anymore. i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bullshit, and you know, i didn t want to be a part of it, and that s one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when i did. so, bill barr is gone. jeff rosen is in charge. and you re going to hear a lot today about jeff clark who again was an environmental lawyer at the justice department, who his own bosses did not know wa
our witnesses, mr. rosen, mr. donahue and mr. engels stood firm. they understood that their oath was to the constitution and not to the personal or political interests of the president. the president, and his allies, became aware with legal challenges exhausted and electoral votes certified, their only hope would be a last- ditch scheme to prevent congress from certifying the win is throwing the entire system into constitutional chaos. the present one that the department to sow doubt in the legitimacy of the election. to empower his followers and members of congress to take action. if the department could lend its credibility to the conspiracies, people would have the justification they needed to spread the big lie. so president trump one of the department of justice to say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the
questions. first of all, gentlemen, thank you for being here today. all of you served it. in top leadership positions with tremendous responsibilities. former attorney general bill barr told the select committee that before he left the department in december 2020, he told president trump, on at least three occasions, there was no evidence of widespread, election fraud that would ve changed the results of the presidential election. and he refuted numerous specific claims of election fraud. the president was making. mr. rosen? after mr. barr announces regulation, the donald trump continued to demand that the department of justice investigate his claims of election fraud? yes. he asserted that he thought the justice department had not done enough.
required planning and coordination. some required significant funding. all of them were overseen by president trump. much more information will be presented soon regarding the president s statement and actions on january 6. as chairman thompson indicated, we turn to another element of the president s effort to overturn the 2020 election. this involving the department of justice. a key focus of our hearing today will be a draft letter, that are witnesses refused to sign. this letter was written by mr. jeff clark with another department of justice lawyer. the letter was to be sent to the leadership of the georgia state legislature. other versions of the letter were intended for other states. neither mr. clark or mr. widespread election fraud.