something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
noted earlier today, as we will be noting a lot as we move forward if in fact the testimony is true that gives some sense of an awareness, a notion that there is possibly something being done illegally here and it shouldn t be done. really important to note all of the implication of all of these people in this testimony is not coming from democrats, progressive, liberals, people who are out to get them. the implications are coming from the trump team, from people within trump land, which is going to make it difficult for them to keep saying i wasn t involved, everyone is lying about me. very helpful context. tom foreman, thank you. so one of the key moments from the latest hearing was this from former acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the
the president yelled out to his secretary, get ken cuccinelli on the phone, and she did in very short order. mr. cuccinelli was on the phone, he was number two at dhs at the time, i was on the speakerphone and the president essentially said, ken, i m sitting here with the acting attorney general. he just told me it s your job to seize machines and you are not doing your job. and mr. cuccinelli responded. mr. rosen, did you ever tell the president that the department of homeland security could seize voting machines? no, certainly not. so testimony during the hearing which showed that donald trump was saying things that were not true. that he was asking senior justice department officials to say things that were not true. that they told him were not true
that s right, you are an environmental lawyer. how about you go back to your office and we will call you when there is an oil spill. with us a donald aire the deputy attorney general under george h.w. bush and deputy assistant slitter general. also with us peter strzok. david, the testimony from jeffrey rosen the acting ag saying that donald trump called him or saw him almost every day for weeks, pushing him to say things that he repeatedly told trump were not true and trump pushing him to do things that he repeatedly told donald trump he could not do. my friend jon karl at abc calls this the greatest abuse of power, even greater than watergate. put this in the big picture. what do you see as what went on here? well, i think i think what we re seeing is an echo but a more dramatic one of what we ve already seen in the other