which is crazy. they were lying. trump was going to burn it down, the day after the this meeting with his testifying about, this sunday after the sunday the tabling sunday but i have been 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 who had these ideas. this is being conducted by trump personally. yeah, the first versions of this oval office meeting came from journalists, including bob woodward and robert costa.
getting back to this looming issue today where jeff clarke, in many ways, the subject of today s hearing as much as president trump was, his home, we learned, just at the start of the hearing today, was apparently the subject of a search warrant by federal officers. yesterday morning, we learned about that just as today s hearing started. speaking of crimes, as much as today was a all about the department of justice and trump s efforts to get the justice department to overthrow the government for him, it was also about multiple members of congress asking for presidential pardons for their potential crimes involved in this plot. it was about them helping to carry this plot out. that s ahead. do you understand the pushing for a specific person to take over the department? he wanted mr. clark, mr. jeff clark to take over the department of justice.
and they are seeking pardons for their role in this plot to overthrow the government. the idea that republican members of congress were worried enough about their exposure that they sought pardons in the waning days of the trump presidency, it s not totally a new idea there had been some press reports that effect in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th attack. but then at the first hearing of the january 6th committee a couple of weeks ago, liz cheney basically teased that news. and said that more on it might be coming. at that hearing, she specifically mentioned one obscure pennsylvania republican congressman named scott perry. she mentioned him by name. said he had contacted the white house in the weeks after january 6th to seek a presidential pardon for himself. congressman perry reacted angrily to that, after liz 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 ass