in the white house who could easily, in 15 minutes, drop someone into doj on december 15th. there s much more from our primetime recap of today s january 6th hearing right after this. the president the president said, just say the election was corrupt. and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. so, mr. donoghue, that s a direct quote from president trump, correct? that s a exactly from the president, yes.
of investigation. fascinating. new york times justice department reporter katie benner and former attorney general it s valuable to have you here tonight. thanks. and just a moment we will have jamie raskin. our special coverage continues just after this. let s pause for a second. it is new year s eve. president trump is talking about seizing voting machines and making the same demands that have already been shot down by former attorney general barr on at least three occasions and by mr. rosen and mr. donahue donoghue on other occasions. plain after claim is knocked down. but the president didn t care. down but the president didn.
called. the day after their testimony, the sunday after the saturday raffensperger called. the tape leak sunday but it happened the night before. so, trump s last play here is to get jeff clarke to send the letter that s with this is about. the letter to georgia, about declaring that states vote fraudulent. ? and so, it really reveals what the intent was. and it was to have the letter sent out declaring it pulls trump into the eastman plot. and it makes the doj coup attempt all part of that fake electors plot. pulling trump into it, that was the other ambient point today. that this was not something that was like, happening among trump s advisers and they were, you know, that crazy pillow guy and mike flynn and other people [inaudible] but this was being conducted by trump personally. yeah, the first versions of this oval office meeting came from journalists, including bob woodward and robert costa. but the dialogue today was much more dense. it was much more full. i was neve
before the january 6th hearing got started. something involving the person who ended up being at the center of today s hearing, alongside president trump. we are going to get some help now from a reporter who knows the story inside out. and from a former u.s. attorney who knows how these things work. but let s reset before we do that, with some of the basics. just before today s hearing, we learned that federal investigators have conducted a predawn search of trump justice official jeff clark. as the new york times put it, quote, one of clark s associates described a dramatic scene, early wednesday morning, when it doesn t federal law enforcement officials raided the house, ceased mr. clark s electronic devices and put him out on the street in his pajamas. even before the dramatic narrative offered by today s witnesses much of which was about mr. clark we knew about the scheme that clark and president trump had been cooking up. trump would get rid of the attorney general and instal
week, i believe the vice president and his staff would benefit greatly from a briefing by john eastern. as i also mentioned, we also want to make sure we don t overexposed can given his new position. this email suggest that mr. klukowski was simultaneously working with jeffrey clark to draft the proposed letter to georgia officials, to overturn their certified election. and, working with doctor eastman to help pressure the vice president to help overturn the election. we did not know these things were connected. we ve got to john eastman, the architect of the whole fake elector scheme, apparently, he got his guy dropped into the justice department in the very last weeks of the trump administration. trump lost the election the first week of november. how do you then get a new justice department job in mid december? but this guy did. he got dropped into the justice