Mark meadows. I said, mark, you cant possibly think that were going to pull this off. That call was crazy. And he looked at me and just started his shaking his head and said, no, cass, he knows its over, he knows he lost, but well keep trying. There are some good options out there, still. Were going to keep trying. This call and other related activity is now the focus of an ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. And georgia is not the only state where President Trump tried to pressure state officials to change the results. He also tried to pressure officials to change the results in those states as well. While President Trump was pressuring state officials, he was also trying to use the department of justice to change the election results. His top officials told him that there was no evidence to support his claims of fraud. But he didnt care. As he told them, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. When these officials would not do what he said, President Trump embarked in an effort to install jeff clark, his acting attorney general, solely because he would do what other in the department would not do. We know that trump was doing so for a specific purpose, so clark could corruptly employ the Justice Departments authority to help persuade the states to flip electoral votes. For example, when Richard Donohue and jeff rosen both appointed by President Trump learned of mr. Clarks proposal, heres why they said they forcefully rejected it. And i recall towards the ends saying, what youre proposing is nothing less than the United StatesJustice Department meddling in the outcome of a president ial election. But more importantly, this was not based on fact. This was actually contrary to the facts as developed by the department of investigations over several weeks and months. Soy responded to that. And for the department to insert itself into the political process this way, i think, would have had grave consequences for the country. It may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis. We know from our investigation that President Trump offered jeff clark the position of acting attorney general, and that jeff clark had decided to accept it. The only reason this ultimately did not happen is that the white House Counsel and a number of Justice Department officials confronted the president in the oval office and threatened mass resignation. And i said something to the effect of, youre going to have a huge personnel blowout within hours, because youre going to have all kinds of problems with resignations and other issues. And thats not going to be in anyones interests. The president ultimately relented, only because the entire leadership of the department of justice, as well as his white House Counsel, threatened to resign