statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump s false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on what led them to do that. our panel of experts join us as we cover the angles. the sarah, the select committee bringing into focus doj official jeffrey clark s role. significant role in the former president s scheme. yes, absolutely. rolling out how former president trump wanted to just set aside jeff rosen and steal jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. look, the witnesses are in person and in their video testimony were not holding
wrong, more than a dozen supreme court justices since 1973 have said, it was actually quite right. this just gives you an idea of how different the five justices and the majority. the three justices plus aletto and thomas from the other republican appointees. those words never left the mouths of the folk on the majority side of this. they were pressed op this and they can t say how they will decide decisions but they did go out of their way to say they brett cavskavanaugh has a concurring opinion where he s trying to protect susan collins. susan kcollins said who is pro-choice on abortion said, kavanaugh assured me that he believes in stare decisis. he said i was for it but this
something. house progressives don t like the idea that the senate goes first. they especially don t like that a whole bunch of people they think are too conservative for their liking, if this passes the senate, it still faces obstacles in the house. that s congress speak for whoa, look out. speaker pelosi is telling people privately they are going to change this bill. you have this group of senators who really worked on everys semi semicolon. there are people who think why should we let susan kcollins an rob portman write our legislation. if a bill has a long way to go, one way to keep it moving is a president who is engaged on both sides.
gentlemen have a lot of o questions to answer. whether it s going to be productive trying to get them in the chair under oath or whether we have sufficient evidence to move forward i think is a harder question. i defer to the chairman on that. i think the american public deserves to know what happened here plain and simple, fair thorough, but let s move it as well, and i think if we can explain exactly what happened with clear and convincing evidence, then that s the important thing. you know, willie, you do have the chairman of the judiciary committee making laughable arguments, humiliating himself, and maybe that will work in his primary in south carolina. that will not work in maine for susan kcollins, that will not work in colorado for cory gardn gardner. that will not work in north carolina for thom tillis. i don t know if he s a good enough politician to figure that out. he s going to run his campaign straight into the wall all so he
while a number of republican senators who lost to donald trump say they will endorse his re-election efforts, you do have other senators going, you know. take ben sass. susan kcollins says she s open o seeing a challenge to the president from her own party. it s really not my choice. it s the choice of those individuals but i see nothing wrong with challengers. that is part of our democratic system. panel is back. let me play another clip. here is bob corker. he is another one who could primary the president. he s retiring. here is what he said. do you think that president trump should be primaried in. we have got to remember what the republican party is. that s not a yes or no