but the yankees, they lowballed aaron judge at the beginning of the year. it made sense at the beginning of the year. we all said that at the beginning year. they re going to pay now. they re going to pay today, as a matter of fact, and then they re going to really pay when he he wants his deal. mika, i ll stop and we ll get to the news but we ll get back to this later. thank you. thank you. back to the january 6th hearings, what we ll be looking for as we really lay it all out for you is this direct line to trump, whether or not it s there. experts are pointing to one piece of testimony yesterday that was really a smoking gun. and we re going to play these exchanges in long form, because it s really, it s really gripping to see how close we came. much of yesterday s house select committee hearing focused on jeffrey clark, a former justice department official, who was central to trump s pressure campaign. during his final days in office, trump even weighed whether to
watching this yesterday, it was alternative history of the saturday night massacre, those clips you just played just now where you have this, you know, who would have thought, back at the time when we were watching this in realtime, you could see from the outside something weird was going on in the justice department. there was reporting contemporaneous that trump was trying to make another change. there had been one change of leadership that you could see was totally political, and nobody knew what was going on behind closed doors. what we didn t know was the scene that played out, the extraordinary, attempt by all of these lawyers, many of whom people were skeptical of at the time, who thought they were trump stooges to begin with, as it turned out, whatever you think about their past performance or other things they did in the course of the trump administration. at the moment of truth, they decided that the rule of law and constitution, and reputations and legal standing were more i
president his claims had no merit. trump turned to acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. when rosen also refused to go along with the false claims, trump tried but ultimately failed to install an attorney general who would. if trump had succeeded in appointing environmental lawyer jeffrey clark, he would have been the third attorney general in about two weeks. white house call logs obtained by the committee show that by 4:19 p.m. on january 3rd, the white house had already begun referring to mr. clark as the acting attorney general. as far as the white house was concerned, mr. clark was already at the top of the justice department. so we ve reported on the tense oval office meeting three days before the capitol attack. requested by acting attorney general jeffrey rosen after being told by clark that he was being replaced. here is testimony on how that
government. we have it here, but again, extraordinary moments. extraordinary moments when they started playing the clips of the extreme statements that were being made, again, pointing to january 6th. revving crowds up. it was just an extraordinary day of testimony again yesterday. i m wondering, amanda. i have been wrong time and time and time again about when republicans are going to finally turn on donald trump. i don t think that 55, 60% of republicans are going to turn on donald trump, but the one thing i do hear from my family members and friends who voted for trump twice is just this level of exhaustion. we started hearing reports, yesterday was a bad day for donald trump. i m wondering what your thoughts are about it. does this increase the level of exhaustion where they re just
saying, oh, my god, let s just get ron desantis or anybody but trump. let s get this behind us. i m super glad you asked that because earlier this week i had reason to listen to a couple of focus groups for trump supporters who had some knowledge about the january 6th committee. it was hosted by my colleague in her podcast airing that discussion this weekend. what was really interesting was that for the first time these groups of trump supporters indicated they weren t willing to have him as the nominee again in 2024. now, did they say the january 6th committee changed their mind, absolutely not, but i think the committee is raising the political price. by raising the issue continually of what happened january 6th, how deep it went, that makes supporting trump just