there isn t a whole history around people flipping but it s an amazing development this morning. in that interview with lester holt yesterday, attorney general garland acknowledged that the committee, the select committee s work has inspired at the top end in the justice department around whamd january 6th. here s what some of it at least, former justice department officials told the 1y67 committee about the pressure from donald trump himself to go along with the big lie. the president said, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. mr. donoghue, that s an exact quote from president trump, correct? that s an exact quote from the president, yes. the next note shows that even the president kept pressing, even though he d been told there was no evidence of fraud, the president keeps saying that the department was, quote, obligated to tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election?
the president do? throws a plate at the wall. he is angry at the answer, and he wants to know why can t you change the answer? another part that gets to donald trump s state of mind whether he knew this was all b.s., and while the person most suited to tell him the factual answer had already said no, his acting attorney general, donoghue says to him forgive me, his acting deputy attorney general says to him, mr. president, we can t just change the results of the election. we can t just go to georgia and say this isn t true, and donald trump says, no, no, no. i m not asking you to do that. just say it s corrupt and we ll take it from there. also yeah. it gets to the state of mind does donald trump believe the election is fraudulent in that moment with donoghue? no. he is saying essentially, just say the words i want you to say, dude, and i feel like those two things together are pretty
really offended that you think they have to go to an fbi field office. that s insulting. couldn t you just have the fbi, where you meet with these guys? by then, i was somewhat agitated. i told them that there was no way on earth that i was going to do that. i wasn t going to meet with mr. johnson. i certainly wasn t going to meet with mr. giuliani. i made that clear repeatedly. so, that s the end of that. don t raise this with me again. and so, because mr. donahue and i had been exchanging our views about this, because, yeah, 7:13 on a friday night of new year s day, i had run out of patience. i sent the email that you are talking about, where i made pretty clear that i had no interest in doing anything further with this. just to wrap this up, mr. donoghue, did you receive a call from a department of
this is one of the best examples of the lengths to which the president, trump would go to stay in power. scouring the internet to support his conspiracy theories shown here, as he to hold mr. donoghue in about december 27th call, you guys may not be following the internet of the way i do. president trump s efforts to this point had failed, stonewalled by mr. rosen and mr. donoghue, trump had only one option. he needed to make mr. rosen, during a january 2nd meeting with mr. clark, did you talk to him again about can you describe? that so, at this point, mr. clark had told us that the president had asked him to consider whether he would be willing to replace me, and supposedly on a timetable by monday the fourth.
to issue you this subpoena. the committee states, it has obtained evidence about which cipollone is quote uniquely positioned to testify. here are some of the key moments from the hearing so far that the committee wants cipollone to corroborate. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get things done and i know he was always, to him and the team were saying we re going to resign, we re not going to be here if this happens, or if that happens but i took it to be whining to be honest with you. mr. donoghue, during this meeting, did the president tell you that he would remove you and mr. rosen because you weren t declaring there was election fraud? toward the end of the meeting, the president was getting very agitated and he