and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
and these two things don t go hand in hand. she s a very, very smart person and i m looking forward to her being back in office somewhere, someday, at some point. she s not ruled that out. politics is in her blood. appreciate it. have a great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i dopologize for not week here in this chair tis this time last week. i was out sick. i think i was in the last people in the country who never had it before, but i finally tested positive about a week and a half ago. i m vaccinated, so that helped me get an easier bout, and rested up and took a five day course of paxlovid, which honestly is kind of gross while you re taking it, but in my oin totally worth it. it s only five days of pills. by the end of my five days i had no fever, totally reduced symptoms, and most importantly i was testing negative and plot a risk to other people. anyway, i m back. i m sorry i missed you here last week. i also had to cancel and re
virginia home on wednesday morning searching the house for three and a half hours. he said those agents took all of the electronics from his home. let s bring in washington post congressional reporter jackie alemany and from the university of michigan law school barbara mcquade. good morning to you both. quickly on the last story, what does it tell you that his home, that jeffy clark s home was raided and that agents spent three and a half hours in there. so on the one hand we re talking about the explosive hearings and the new details but on the other side the department of justice continues its work as well. yeah, of course, we don t know what the basis of that search was. but to be able to have a search warrant, to go into someone s home, the agents needed a judge to find probable cause to believe that evidence of a specific crime will be found at that location. not just crime in a general sense. but putting forth the evidence they have to prove probable cause of a particular crim
president has some right to be heard on issue of executive privilege and whether documents are released by the archives. but whatever that voice is it s certainly not as strong as the current incumbent president s power in this area. and it looks like the committee is proceeding in exactly the way you would in civil discovery. in advance of the presumed or hopeful deposition or testimony they re gathering documents so that when that time comes they can sharpen a pencil and go through each and every document and ask him about that. bres, let me go to you on somebody else the committee has already heard from and that s jeffy clark. we showed some of the video from the team out there showing all the movements related to these conversations. what do you make of his i want to say participation. we don t know how fulsomely
material so that they could get it to the committee. so this is just one tiny example of what the committee learned at it point. there could be a lot of other information and then when you couple it with the information that they received from mark meadows when he initially agreed to cooperate before backing away and the committee revealed to us the other day was that they have followed up on 375 tips to their hotline. so they have gotten thousands of tips but there has been 375 tips that they felt were necessary to follow up and ask more questions about. there is just so much information that the committee has at their disposal. and one of the things that members tell me time and time again is that yeah, they re being stonewalled by people like jeffy clark, having a hard time getting mark meadows and john eastman to get in front of them and they re connecting dots andn and around these people. so if they don t get something directly from jeffrey clark, well they talk to other people a