to your point, donna, how much closer to being a successful coup could it have to be for the justice department to look at this. i understand it is probably complicated to contemplate the donald trump question. certainly jeff lee clark should be scrutinized whether it is legal or illegal on a d.o.j. letterhead where your job is paid by the u.s. taxpayer to want a letter sent to georgia to overturn an election they recounted three times as republicans top to bottom in that state. surely there are questions about the other people around the expresident. where do you think the line should be drawn? well, look, i think if anybody read i know we all did that stunning piece in the atlantic last week that this was really maybe just a dress rehearsal. i don t want to get to the point where it works. and therefore, that means that, from top to bottom, there has to
and what is missing is what should come were the executive branch, from the department of justice, in terms of investigating the criminality that happened on january 6th. and i m not just talking about these lower level people who stormed into the capitol and will be held accountable. i am talking about the people who orchestrated, to egged it on, who are responsible, ultimately for what happened on january 6th. we may be almost a year away, but i know members of congress are reliving this every single day that they feel it when they walk into the capitol, and that there has to be account, and that the public expects accountability. so does mitch mcconnell, it would appear. donna, you raise a fascinating scenario, what would it take? did it have to be successful? if it had been successful, jeff lee clark would be the attorney general, not merrick garld.
who sort of discovered him, his state sponsor is meadows. the report says meadows reportedly introduced trump to d.o.j. official jeffrey clark. clark went on to recommend that he be installed as acting attorney general and that d.o.j. should send a letter to state officials urging them to take certain actions that could affect the outcome of the november 2020 election by, among other things, appointing alternate slaifts electors to cast electoral votes for trump rather than president biden. so when we talk about the d.o.j. sort of parallel track that ran parallel to mr. rosen and mr. donahue, who were on the phone with trump receiving orders to declare the election corrupt, meadows was running the clark operation at d.o.j., it would appear. meadows was doing everything. and, you know, nicolle, i think this is a moment where we need to step back and make sure people understand who mark
government had been hollowed out. bill barr will let. the only people left with mark meadows, cash pat el, like eastman, jeff lee clark, the people willing to sell the last shred of their soul for president trump to remain president of the united states. what is so powerful about this reporting is that it connects the scenes that we saw on january 6th, through the planning, through the conspiracy theorizing to the play wook they were run. and that power point is as good a symbolization of everything they did. it didn t come out of nowhere. it looks like what we all lived and heard and experienced between the election and january 6th. claire, everything that s been discussed is sort of in the public view because we know that the 1/6 committee knows all of this, because mark meadows, who now faces in about 2:40, a
safe. and all we know is a lot of paper trail that suggests the normal order wasn t working and people who wanted to propagate conspiracy theories and overturn the election were in charge that day at the same time that a mob that was acting on their conspiracy theories was invading the capitol. this is why it is imperative that the story not stop here with these documents. what these documents do is point to us the questions that mark meadows needs to answer. who was in charge? why was the capitol allowed to be assaulted like that for so long? and why were the national guard troops only there to protect, quote, unquote, protouch people. i think the troops would beg to differ who take an oath to defend the american people, and why were they show slow in get willing. for all of our cast gagss of jeff lee clark as the coup plotter within the coup plot over at the fbi seeking to topple jeffrey rosen, the person