face serious criminal exposure. he had hundreds oaf them based on this news story. i think what the letter in the most recent reporting shows is the urgency that the federal government, the fbi and the justice department took here. this was a national security problem. the fbi, as frank can explain, second top priority is counterintelligence, and they according to the time line that we now have, the greater sense we have of how quickly this moved, the justice department moved as quickly as they could to try and get these materials, by issuing a subpoena, by pushing trump s lawyers. they knew there was a problem, and they were trying to solve it. they were trying to go out and get these documents, and although we do not have a full sense of the back and forth that went on between trump s lawyers and the government and how all of that played out, you have to believe based on the fact that they went for the search warrant that they had run up against a
National Democrats are continuing to warn about several extreme Republican candidates who, if elected, supposedly would lead to the end of democracy. At the state time, Democrats are doing all they can to help those candidates move one step closer to office.
pushing trump s false election claims and who trump talked about, discussed, trying to appoint to be the attorney general and who will figure prominently in today s hearing. i m jake tapper. this is cnn s special coverage. attack on democracy, the january 6th hearings. aides to the house select committee say today s hearing will zero in on all the ways then president trump tried to pressure justice department officials, including pushing them to publicly say that there was widespread voter fraud, when they, in fact, had found none. and threatening to fire acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, who was holding firm against trump s demand. rosen will testify live today along with some other former justice department officials who stood up to trump s lies on this matter. rosen s deputy, richard donoghue, and steven engel, who was head of the office of legal counsel, they warned trump of mass resignations at the justice
meadows [inaudible] that information. i believe the words he used was, so, there is no there there. there is no they are there, in mid to late november, from mark meadows. that is new. but knowing that fact did not stop meadows from pushing trump s big lie in public and in private for months as he helped enable the coup. the committee also revealed brand-new testimony from trump attorney general bill barr and the presidents own daughter ivanka, who both said they did not believe that trump won the election. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bs. i didn t want to be a part of it. if you can t live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, and supported by specific evidence, that the that there was fraud in the election. and your perspective about the election, when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspe
hundred percent right. j. d. vance was calling trump america s hitler just a few weeks ago, and now he s pushing trump s conspiracies. the real issue, the real worry, though, is that these big lie election deniers are not just running for office all over the country, for governor, senate, but they re specifically running for offices to manage the elections for the secretary of state rolls. and the motive is obvious for that. but it s pretty dangerous, is it not, that the democrats have not been able to get their election bills through the senate because of joe manchin, because of the filibuster, meanwhile the republicans are getting ready to plug all those gaps where they re conspiracy,