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
over all of his footage. along with other records requests and documents that the committee has now received from the national archives and the courts just threw the legal process that which has taken a while and they need some time to recalibrate here and make sure that the evidence that think collected is fully reflected in the public hearings. i think also just from a metabolism standpoint, there was a lot that was thrown at us yesterday. even on that topic of false electors. this is a little bit in the weeds, but based on of what barb was saying they made the connection from john eastman, the lawyer who authored the legal coup, that was proposing to submit alternate slate of electors to jeffrey clark. eastman happened to be colleagues and close with ken eblg klukowski, who worked for jeffrey clark in the department of justice and continues to stay in touch with john eastman while in trump s department of justice