of the department of justice is approach and not supportive of mr. clark s approach. did mr. clark ask you to continue to stay the department? that sunday meeting, when he told me that he would be replacing me, he said he had asked to see me alone. usually, he had met with me and mr. donahue. because he thought it would be appropriate in light of what was happening to at least offer me that i could stay on as his deputy. i thought that was preposterous. i told him that was nonsensical. there is no universe where i was going to do that. stay on and support someone else doing things that were not consistent with what i thought should be done. so, i did not accept that offer. i can put it that way. during that meeting, did he ask you to sign the georgia letter?
presidential pardon testimony, those requests, came as the committee put front and center today the pressure campaign waged by the ex-president on his department of justice, whose top officials fortunately for all of us stood up for the rule of law and the constitution and did not ever bend to the ex-president s demands to legitimize his lies. former doj officials described in dramatic detail a surreal meeting in the white house three days before the january 6th insurrection wherein they relayed to the ex-president that if he installed his guy at doj, jeffrey clark, as acting attorney general, they would all resign en masse. i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one minute for this guy, who i had just declared was completely incompetent. and so, the president immediately turned to mr. engel, and he said, steve, you wouldn t resign, would you?
president? i said, no, i m simply here in case questions come up that other people don t have the answer to. and she walked away and then came back, probably 30 seconds later, and said, the president wants you in the meeting. i proceeded into the oval office. i took probably two, three steps in and i stopped because i was, as the a.g. said, not exactly properly attired. i was wearing jeans and muddy boots and an army t-shirt, and i never would arrive in the oval office this way. i said, mr. president, i apologize, i m sorry. i didn t know i was going to be here. and he said, no, just come in. and so i went in. i attempted to take a seat on one of the couches or behind the chairs arrayed in front of the president s desk, and he said, oh, no, no, you re going to be up here. and everyone kind of laughed. and they moved the chairs a little bit. someone from the white house counsel s office picked up a spare chair and put it directly in front of the president and i
requesting, was as broad as you could describe. from the beginning of time up until today for any and all things. he mentioned nixon, and i said, nixon s pardon was never nearly that broad. and are you aware of any members of congress? mr. gaetz and mr. brooks, i know, both advocated for a blanket pardon for members involved in that meeting and a handful of other members that weren t at the december 21st meeting. as the preemptive pardons. mr. gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon, and he was doing so since early december. i m not sure why. reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting with mr. meadows about receiving a presidential pardon.
donahue in that december 27th call. you guys may not be following the internet the way i do. president trump s efforts to this point had failed. stonewalled by mr. rosen and donahue, president trump had only one option. he needed to make fark the acting attorney general. mr. rosen, during a meeting with mr. clark, did you confront him again about his contact with the president? can you describe that? so, at this point, mr. clark had told us that the president had asked him to consider whether he was willing to replace me. supposedly, a timetable by monday. so i had for mr. i also hope