in just a few hours jeffrey rosen, former acting attorney general who oversaw the department for only a few pivotal weeks in time is set to testify before the january 6 committee later today and cnn has now obtained some of what he plans to say. rosen will be joined by two other top justice department officials, both of whom threat enned to quit. and jeffrey clark with no criminal trial experience was all in on the bogus theories being bandied about and told trump exactly what he wanted to hear. meantime cnn has learned that the justice department is widening its investigation into the plot to send the fake slates of electors to overturn biden s win. there is a fresh round of subpoenas to rogue electors from several swing states. here to help me sort through all of this is a former federal prosecutor and host of the podcast on topic. so great to see you. it has been a while. good to see you. great to have you. so today we re going to hear from more people, guards at the g
fifth. if you remember, we heard that great testimony from where you saw john eastman taking the fifth, i think over 100 times before the committee. i actually think that that shows to me that the committee is making some progress here because they are really getting to people who have done activity that is so questionable that understandably they are exercising their constitutional right not to discuss it. i think as you pointed out, the doj is starting to look at that and starting to get more aggressive in their investigation. and i wouldn t be surprised if where they end up is people like clark and eastman. and certainly they have every right to take the fifth. no one is questioning that. but they have enough people around them, people like rosen, people like dondonahue, all who will hear from today who have filled in enough of the picture of what happened happening inside doj and the white house at the time that it may not matter if clark actually ends up
lawyers around trump who were advising him do very questionable often illegal things. we have john eastman and also this former doj attorney jeffrey clark, someone who probably most people at home had never heard of until this investigation ramped up. and somebody who as i mentioned had no criminal experience at all but he managed to curry a lot of favor with the president by sort of pushing the same sort of lies, pushing the same sort of flawed theories. but in his testimony he took the fifth. do you think that his cooperation or really lack thereof could be sort of a make or break for the committee here? well, i think that it is important for the committee. i do think that they have done great work going around the fact that certain people took the