what we ve seen in this committee. there s more coming today. the fifth hearing this afternoon of the january 6 select committee. the final one of the month. bennie thompson says the ones that were scheduled for next week are postponed until july because of the flow of new information the committee is getting and evidence it needs to assess. today s hearing will focus on donald trump s effort to get the justice department to help him overturn the 2020 election. it s been reported and we ve discussed when jeffrey rosen resisted trump s pressure, the former president came close to replacing him with a mid-level koj environmental lawyer named jeffrey clark who had pushed to advance that big lie. today we ll hear testimony from the former acting a.g. who was nearly replaced as well as his deputy at the time, an assistant attorney general steve engel. the three witnesses part of an extraordinary oval office meeting three days before the january 6 attack in which they
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you, michael, there s sort of a good news bad news result to what you re describing and i guess the good news is that bill barr left before this really became an attempt to overthrow the will of the voters. he left at the hands of jeffrey rosen who said if jeffrey clark takes over, you know, not only will i walk out, but all the white house lawyers will walk out. but also i think raises serious questions about what will be in these documents. i mean, if these folks are the likes of who donald trump was talking about him dialing for people who affirm his world view, you can think of the people who call radio hosts. i guess that s how old i am. can you play this one for my old boyfriend? that s how trump was on the phone. hey, man, can you send me over a key plot? i can t get to do it and barr left. so he s reaching out but that is a good point about what may be in these documents. this is what i talked to trump
action. julie makes the key point here in that it s not that barr refused so trump moved on. barr refused so trump moved on to jeffrey clark. the reason today s headlines include these names is because trump just forum shopped. still does. i think that that s absolutely righton to how impor for the january 6th committee to continue its work is how much maneuvering was going on and to michael s point, ultimately, this really starts to smack of trump and the sort of methodology he used. i mean, this was a man who loved to announce an investigation as a way to push things over the edge in his direction.
puerto rico following hurricane maria and speculated an isis connection to the 2018 mass shooting in las vegas when it was in fact domestic extremism by a white man but perry s actions around january 6 nath arguably deserve the greatest scrutiny, perry introduced donald trump to jeffrey clark who went on to become a justice department figure and a key figure in an attempt to overturn the election result. in a letter sent to perry last monday, the january 6th house select committee wrote quote then president trump considered appointing jeffrey clark as acting attorney general, as mr. clark pressed his department of justice superiors to use agency authorities to challenge the election results. we have received evidence from multiple witnesses that representative perry had an important role in the efforts to install mr. clark as acting attorney general. end quote. and here s the thing. scott perry has risen in rank and power as he s grown in note