president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi
machines, declare the election corrupt and investigate conspiracy claims. watch. between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do, what i m just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. just say it was corrupt. we also learned that when top doj officials refused to back his false election claims, trump wanted to install a little known doj environmental attorney and trump loyalist jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on the details of that in a moment. let s begin with cnn political correspond
You were texting with her when all of this was happening and she was locked in her safe room. Thank you, mary, for your service. Were praying for israel. Thank you so much. Ainsley youre welcome. Second hour of fox friends starts right now. Brian we start at the white house, President Biden expected to formally take questions today. In a News Conference for the First Time Since hamas News Conference. Lawrence comes as Secretary Of State confirms confirms 33americans were killee Terrorist Group and more still missing. Ainsley Family Members of israelis held captive in gaza are meeting on capitol hill today. Steve im in washington as The Sun Comes Up and big news is mike johnson and the new front runner in the race and house speaker. We could see a vote starting at noon today in that building behind us. Trey yingst on the ground in southern israel with the very latest, trey. Reporter good morning, israelis continue their strike against the gaza strip and last night we were along the bord
Deal. This is former trump lawyer jenna ellis in court this hour. Is it your decision to waive these rights and enter a guilty plea because you are in fact guilty . It is. So she is the fourth codefendant and the third in just a week to take a plea deal. Joining us is nbc news Laura Jarrett and katie phang by phone. Laura, this just happened moments ago. What more do you have on it . Unexpected. Another significant plea deal. We see in court, jenna ellis, getting emotional, apologizing to the people of georgia, telling the judge she was led by others down this wrong path and saying she regretted her representation of the former president and all of the things that she did, along with others including Rudy Giuliani, which she is now pleading guilty to essentially making false statements in front of the Georgia Senate, around december of 2020, she goes forward, you might remember, one of those Infamous Press conferences, they were standing before the Georgia Senate talking about dead vot
Vote. Is there could be a mad Dash Scramble and nominate ago speaker and eight candidates seeking to acquire the gavel of this hour and watching that closely and updates as soon as we get them live from the hill. Meanwhile, from the middle east, it is day 18 of israel at war and idf cranked up air strikes against hamas targets in gaza overnight. Israel Still Deciding on major Ground Offenses or keep the jewish states powder dry. At least for now. Good morning. We await for more action on that im bill hemmer live in new york. Big couple of hours here, dana. Did i recollects im dana pree no and this dana perino and this is meshs news room. At this hour, a very large group of israeli supporters are gathering outside United Nations chanting bring them home ahead of a 10 00 a. M. Hearing. Amber lets get to it. Best of my recollections apologies, well try to get the audio in there a bit. Did i recollects President Biden will not consider a ceasefire till all hostages kidnapped by hamas are f