this is don lemon tonight. a firsthand account from the witness who gave dramatic closed-door testimony to the january 6th committee, today. this is the sitting president of the united states, saying this in the white house, that was actually very scary. you have used the words frightening, and scary. you were frightened? those are strong words. of course they were pickups the. in the capitol, revelations on the plot to overturn the election. what the president told the doj. what i am asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress meant. a not a conspiracy theory about italian satellites had reached the highest levels of the government. the completely baseless conspiracy theory that an italian defense contractor for flitted software to a satellite which switch to votes from trump to biden. members of congress angling for pardons. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon, is because you think you have committed a
does that say anything about where the doj is headed? is a big step. no question. there s a lot we don t know but there are some things we do know. in order to get a search warrant as a prosecutor, you have to swear out and affidavit dictating you have probable cause to believe a client crime was committed but you have to take that to a judge and judges scrutinize these. i ve sat in judges waiting rooms while they go through it to decide whether they agree. we note doj believes that clark has probable cause, not beyond a reasonable doubt. we know a judge agreed with it. we don t know exactly what they took. knowing this case i would assume phones, computers, laptops, they would dump all that info, and it is a bad omen for jeffrey clark. not everyone who gets searched gets charged. rudy giuliani has not been charged yet but it is a big step for doj. we are hearing, this piece over here and this piece over there. so much. jeffrey clark is so fascinating. i am already writing the mo
question, the dc question, a factual question, but we are not seeing it play into the political motivation, at least from the candidates perspective, from what they are putting out. when i got this new today i kept rereading it, saying am i actually reading what was going on? we got news about a georgia state investigation into trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election. governor kemp will deliver a sworn recorded statement to the special grand jury next month. what could that mean for this case? is this big news? the reporting has been that donald trump consistent with what we have heard today tried to lean on governor kemp to s call a special session of georgia legislature so that they could overturn the election. not a good day for donald trump and his people in georgia. but also let s not forget. jeffrey clark got crushed today in congress. i will tell you what is worse is having fbi agents show up to your house at 6:00 a.m. jeffrey clark and federal indicators raided the hom
portion, as you know, went down to the capitol, and then a very small portion of them went in. but, i will tell you that, they were angry, from the standpoint of what happened in the election , because they are smart, and they see, and they saw what happened. i believe, that was a big part of what happened on january 6th. that interview took place in march, right after the march after the insurrection he is talking about people who broke into the capitol, right, or tried to overthrow the government, threatened lawmakers, and he is saying that they are very smart people. did the president say anything else in his interview about january 6th? about the insurrectionist? know. he didn t talk about it at all? that was his peace on general six. that he not want to answer questions? my position was that, it was a staggering answer to that question. and so, the idea of trying to see whether or not he may
of the doj. listen to this. let s take a look at another one of your notes. 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 is not what i am asking you to do. what i am asking you to do is, say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. it is astounding that he is saying this to a top doj official. is this criminal behavior? to me, that line, just say there was fraud, that is the crux of what you would be looking at if you re thinking of charging obstruction of justice or conspiracy to defraud the united states. by the way, there is no real question in my mind that he said it, richard donoghue is a credible witness who took contemporaneous notes while he is on that phone call. you see his handwritten notes. i didn t have any question that donald trump said that, and th