and a reminder of all the smiles you re bringing to kids faces every day. will today be the day you send your love to the rescue? please call or go online right now to give if operators are busy please wait patiently or go to loveshriners.org right way. [music playing] hours before sunrise on december 19th, 2020, after a long, loud, disturbing white house meeting about seizing voting machines, president trump sent a tweet that would change history. [indistinct shouting] big protest in d.c. on january 6th it read. be there, will be wild! .
from donald trump. jeffrey rosen: between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. 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 investigate election fraud. jake tapper: but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump s wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose to not listen. on a december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, president trump said the department had an obligation to tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman . richard donoghue: that was an exact quote from the president.
with supporters. he had mixed success. in arizona and pennsylvania he backed gubernatorial candidates kari lake and doug mastriano and senate candidates blake masters and mehmet oz. all of them lost. of the 10 republicans in the house of representatives who voted to impeach trump because of january 6, only two returned to congress in 2023. speaker: they claim that jake tapper: the others either declined to run for re-election such as adam kinzinger or lost their republican primary re-election battles to more trump supporting candidates such as liz cheney. liz cheney: i will do whatever it takes jake tapper: this mission that you ve taken on has cost you your job. do you have any regrets? liz cheney: our obligation, my obligation very much is above politics. i can t imagine having done anything differently at any stage of this process since january 6th, it saddens me that so many of my republican colleagues
from donald trump. jeffrerey rosen: b between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. 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 investigate election fraud. jake tapper: but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump s wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose to not listen. on a december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, president trump said the department had an obligation to tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman . richard donoghue: that was an exact quote from the president. it indicated that he had some political avenue he wanted
what was your reaction when you heard about that? liz cheney: i think most americans could never imagine those things would happen here and that order and many of the other things that we ve learned through our hearings have been really stunning to me because repeatedly, i found myself in a situation thinking, my gosh, how could this happen here? and we really thought it couldn t, but it s just continued to emphasize, for all of us, that our institutions are fragile. jake tapper: the appointment of the special counsel was not hypothetical. trump wanted sidney powell, a prominent peddler of election lies, in the spot. sidney powell: he asked pat cipollone if he had the authority to name me special counsel, and he said yes. and then he asked him if he had the authority to give me whatever security clearance i needed, and pat cipollone said yes. and then the president, said, ok, i m naming her that, and i m giving her security clearance