cheney made those remarks at the hearing he said the idea that he sought a pardon from president trump was absolutely not true. he told reporters that cheney s assertion about that was, quote, ludicrous and a soulless lie. but it apparently is something that he did. and it was apparently not just him. at that first hearing, cheney said that perry sought a pardon and that multiple other republican congressman have sought pardons in connection with their efforts to keep trump in power. today, the committee showed their receipts on that front. my colleagues and i appear also take an oath. some of them failed to uphold theirs and instead chose to spread the big lie. days after the tragic events of january 6th, some of the same republican members requested pardons in the waning days of the trump administration. five days after the attack on
right thing for me to do. however, i will say, to your bigger point about why jeffrey clark is of interest of the justice department, i think we saw that today in the hearing. certainly, he was pushing justice department officials to do things that were considered observed by justice and that were considered to be justice department officials. by sending that letter to georgia officials, saying, falsely, the department had fears that the election in georgia had been tampered with, and in this officials should meet. to the other point around the fake elector scheme, the other, i thought, really important revelation that came out today in the hearing that we did not know before is that trump had more than one in road into the justice department. he had jeffrey clark. he also had another man named ken klukowski. ken came to the justice department just 35 days before the inauguration. he came in the middle of december, right around the time that bill barr was leaving.
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consequences to the country. it may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis. and i want to make sure that he understood the gravity of the situation because he didn t really seem to appreciate it. had this letter been released on official department of justice letterhead, it would have falsely informed all americans, including those who might be inclined to come to washington on january 6th, that president trump s election fraud allegations were likely very real. the whole idea here, that this letter was intended to give a stamp of approval of the u.s. justice department to trump s made-up charge of election fraud. it would therefore give republican state officials whether they were super trumpy, maga officials or not it would give them cover. it might have even give them something of what they felt like was a duty to overturn election results in their states. where did this letter come from now? we got some surprise revelations on that today, some new clarity o
no major fraud in the election and then resigned, in december, with a very complimentary resignation letter about how great a president president trump was, the person who took over after bill barr as attorney general was jeffrey who was a third when mr. rosen revealed was how forgive me how this rambo, who had no business dealing with election matters at all, how he can t even spell election, ended up at the center of trump s overthrow of the election plot. watch. mr. rosen, on christmas eve, your first official day as the acting attorney general, president trump called you. what did he want to talk about? the same things he was talking about publicly. he wanted to talk about that he thought the election had been stolen or was corrupt. that there was widespread widespread fraud. i told him that our reviews had not shown that to be the case. we had an extended discussion,