there and do the rest of the work and put pressure on the states to start audits and again, gives him room to operate between then and january 6th. the whole notion behind it was trump and his supporters saying don t worry about it, we re going to make it up. don t pay attention to the facts. don t pay attention to the law. we re just going to make it up and forge ahead. trump continued to press rosen on the call saying quote, this was an illegal corrupt election. and according to acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue s notes from the conversation, trump told rosen the doj was failing to respond to reports of crime. rosen stood firm on this call saying there is not much the justice department could do. trump also plotted with another justice department official jeffrey clark to oust the acting attorney general after rosen s repeated refusals to go along with trump s fraudulent allegations, but that scheme imploded at a dramatic white house showdown on january
republican congressmen to go out there and do the work and put pressure on the states to start audits and again, gives him room to operate between then and january 6th. the whole notion behind it was trump and his supporters saying don t worry about it, we ll make it up. don t pay attention to the facts. don t pay attention to the law. we re just going to make it up and forge ahead. trump continued to press rosen on the call saying quote, this was an illegal corrupt election and according to acting deputy attorney general richard donohue s notes from the conversation, trump told rosen the doj was failing to respond to reports of crime. rosen stood firm on this call saying there is not much the justice department could do. trump also plotted with another justice department official jeffrey clark to oust the acting attorney aggeneral after his refusals to go along
republican congressmen to go out there and do the work and put pressure on the states to start audits and again, gives him room to operate between then and january 6th. the whole notion behind it was trump and his supporters saying don t worry about it, we ll make it up. don t pay attention to the facts. don t pay attention to the law. we re just going to make it up and forge ahead. trump continued to press rosen on the call saying quote, this was an illegal corrupt election and according to acting deputy attorney general richard donohue s notes from the conversation, trump told rosen the doj was failing to respond to reports of crime. rosen stood firm on this call saying there is not much the justice department could do. trump also plotted with another justice department
legal analyst elie honig called, and these are his words, stark evidence of an michigan mad. cnn s paula reid has that story. reporter: new emails released monday by democrats on the house oversight committee show how white house chief of staff mark meadows pressured the justice department at least five times to investigate conspiracy theories. in one exchange, he wanted rosen to arrange an fbi meeting with an ally of rudy giuliani who is pushing a conspiracy. a friend of mine says i don t believe in conspiracies but i also don t believe in coincidences. reporter: rosen would not. emailing his deputy i flatly refuse, said i would not be giving any special treatment to giuliani or any of his witnesses. the emails also reveal how the president directed other allies to press rosen to join the legal effort to challenge election results. on december 29th, kurt olson, a
private attorney emailed the justice department a draft of a lawsuit to challenge the election, claiming he had been directed by the president to meet with rosen to bring a similar action, writing i have been instructed to report back to the president this afternoon after this meeting. the emails indicate rosen talked mr. olson and asked him for more information. the new documents also reveal how on december 31st and january 3rd former president trump met with rosen and other top justice officials and pressured them to challenge the election results. on january 1st, meadows sent him a youtube clip pushing a theory italy used satellites to move votes to biden. rosen forwarded it to a deputy who replied and call the clip pure insanity. on the same day, meadows emailed about signature matches in georgia. and writing can you believe this? i m not going respond. the pressure campaign ramped up