phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators yesterday. former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we are going to have more on that right in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former presidents effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in the 2020 election. take a listen to this incredible moment recalled today of a white house meeting just days before january 6 involving jeffrey clark, today s witnesses, the white house counsel, and then president trump. clark had just explained his plan, and here s how white house counsel eric hirschman responded. a warning, now, some of the language is a little bit sal
president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
good evening, i m anderson cooper along with my colleague, jake tapper. tonight, we are going inside one of the most riveting days of testimony in the four days of hearings so far. the fourth hearing by the january 6th committee, there s just no other way to describe what we saw today. a series of republican state officials putting country ahead of party, testifying to the intense pressure they were under by the former president and his allies to help overturn the 2020 election. this is also a deeply emotional day as well for many of these witnesses, some having to collect themselves as they spoke about the toll their decisions have taken on themselves as well as on their families, having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors. some of the most personal and damning testimony heard today came from arizona s republican speaker of the house. rusty bowers is his name.
transportation fund. he says he s reduced the deficit by 1.6 trillion, so there s room. to the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war. global peril. ukraine. these are not normal times. bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product. do it now. do it today. the president not changing any of his policies. the votes may not be in congress to do what he wants. i m willing to embrace his proposals for a gas tax holiday. i don t know whether we ll get the votes it needs here in the senate. i m talking to my colleagues. nancy pelosi has in the past criticized a gas tax holiday. the senior policy director for the committee for responsible federal budget is concerned that the $10 billion hole would grow as pressure would keep the gas stacks suspension even longer than three months. listen. at best, this will reduce the inflation rate by 0.1%. as soon as the holiday is ove