statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump s false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on what led them to do that. our panel of experts join us as we cover the angles. the sarah, the select committee bringing into focus doj official jeffrey clark s role. significant role in the former president s scheme. yes, absolutely. rolling out how former president trump wanted to just set aside jeff rosen and steal jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. look, the witnesses are in person and in their video testimony were not holding
statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump s false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on what led them to do that. our panel of experts join us as we cover the angles. the sarah, the select committee bringing into focus doj official jeffrey clark s role. significant role in the former president s scheme. yes, absolutely. rolling out how former president trump wanted to just set aside
members of congress asked for prospective pardons, blanket pardons to cover future criminality. what does the combination of those two things indicate to you? i think it s pretty clear it indicates they knew what they were doing was wrong, illegal. it required a certain degree of deception of the public. what they were basically what jeffrey clark was trying to strong arm the doj into doing what h was lie about the idea there was sufficient or sufficient suspicion there was fraud in the georgia election. he knew that wausn t true and that was the whole objective. at some point jeffrey clark says to the acting deputy attorney general, rosen, he would give up on the idea of taking over doj if they would sign this
that evidence. how seriously do they have to prove something before they do something like this? this is enormously important at many different levels. we were not sure the public was not sure that they were v investigating anything going on at the capitol. not only are they investigating a much broader possible conspiracy, they are investigating someone who was dealing extensively with president trump. this investigation has now reached inside the white house and inside the oval office. that s what that search warrant means. it doesn t mean that clark or anyone else will be charged for certain but the magnitude of the investigation is much greater than we previously known. the other thing we know is you don t get a search warrant into their house and for their phones
of voter fraud, frtry to over tn the election. listen to what this white house lawyer said. when he finished discussing what he planned on doing, i said good [ bleep ]. sorry. a-hole. congratulations. you just made the first step of committing a felony. reporter: the people around clark thought it was clear they thought the actions were insane, potentially unlawful and we know that clark s home has opibeen raided. thank you. let s talk about this. joining us is s.e. cupp, jeffrey toobin. tell us what this says about the doj investigation. they would have to prove to a judge that they reason to believe there was evidence of a crime in the house but also reason to believe the possibility of destruction of