fraud. what was going on behind-the-scenes is turning out to be far more sinister and organized than we thought. this week a former u.s. attorney general for district of georgia which includes atlanta told the senate judiciary committee exactly what was behind this mysterious and abrupt resignation in early january. he told the panel he resign after officials at the justice department told him that the former president intended to fire him for not backing the baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in georgia. the ex-president became fixated on georgia after biden s victory in that typically red state. this obsession fueled a man named jeffrey clark, this guy the former acting head of the doj civil division to scheme to give republicans in georgia a reason to question and ultimately invalidate the state s election results. i ll be diving into just how
importance because of guardrails. the guardrails do not exist. i am not entirely comfortable with the idea of my democracy resting upon some people who will make the right decision when confronted with corruption. yeah, i think that s the point. one of the things we realized in the trump administration is when we think about our democracy, we think about these institutions, we think about our norms, our tradition, our processes, it s really just people. it s people that are in positions of power and authority that decide to uphold all of them or not as the case may be under the trump administration. that s why the process of finding the truth, looking for and finding truth and getting that out is extremely important. there needs to be an disincentive for people to abuse that power, to do what they ve done and making sure that people are aware of what they did and didn t do is a big part of that. we saw a guy who heard donald
dangerously close that man jeffrey clark came to upending our democracy in the next hour. be sure to stick around for that. for now previously unreleased each males obtained by politico are revealing not only how the ex-president was attempting to enlist the help of the doj to legitimatize his false claims of voter fraud but his cronies wanted to rope in the fbi. we ll dive into the details of that plot in just a moment. one of the reporters who broke that story, betsy swan. we re learning every day about the ex-president s attempts to stay in power. what s disturbing is that they were actually plotting to overturn an election. this wasn t about stopping the steal. the only fraud being attempted by the ex-president s cronies trying to manipulate the highest levers of government to overturn the will of the people. what s more disturbing is
to try to convince the people he was talking to to actually carry out the president s wishes. this happened multiple times, poppy, december 31st the president meets with jeffrey rosen and other doj officials. on january 1st, chief of staff mark meadows emails then-acting attorney general jeffrey rosen three times to try to convince him to look into these election fraud claims. it went on and on and on, poppy. eventually culminating in the january 3rd meeting where acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and another man named jeffrey clark go to the white house and they basically have this apprentice-style meeting where they re trying to pitch themselves as the acting attorney general. this man jeffrey clark, poppy, goes into the president and basically says i can take the election fraud claims to the finish line. make me acting attorney general and i m going to do this. and then jeffrey rosen argues the other side which is doj can t do this election fraud they can t get behind these ba