january 6th hearing begins. [laughs] so, histories moving fast on the subject. and the question remains in michigan politics as to whether being arrested for his purported role in the crimes of january 6th is going to boost him boost his chances in that republican primary, since apparently participating in that particular crime is a badge of honor. i don t know it helps you, somehow? we will await republican voters judgment on that. i have to agree with you, rachel, about a point you made. about this whole question of, will the january 6th committee send criminal referrals to the justice department? the attorney general said i am watching the hearings i am watching every minute of them. if i don t watch them live i play them back later. and he said, at the same time, what he called the january 6th prosecutors are watching. every sentence has been referred to the justice department in realtime. i mean honestly, what we could do, just to make sure every tee s crossed in
candidate brian kelly. his initial appearance is scheduled for thursday at 1:00 pm, exactly the same time that the january 6th hearing begins. [laughs] so, histories moving fast on the subject. and the question remains in michigan politics as to whether being arrested for his purported role in the crimes of january 6th is going to boost him boost his chances in that republican primary, since apparently participating in that particular crime is a badge of honor. i don t know it helps you, somehow? we will await republican voters judgment on that. i have to agree with you, rachel, about a point you made. about this whole question of, will the january 6th committee send criminal referrals to the justice department? the attorney general said, i am watching the hearings, i am watching every minute of them. if i don t watch them live i play them back later. and he said, at the same time, what he called the january 6th prosecutors are watching. every sentence has been referred
with members of the white house counsel s office threatened to resign as a group, if donald trump installed an obscure justice department republican environmental lawyer as the new acting attorney general. that lawyer, jeffrey clark, was in the meeting in the oval office, promising the president that if he became acting attorney general, he would send a letter to elected officials in georgia and other states won by joe biden, telling them the lie, that the justice department had found fraud in the presidential election in that state. and urged those states to illegally submit a slate of trump electors to the electoral college. the best line in the meeting was delivered by acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue, who rushed to the meeting dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and crushed jeffrey clark. according to the washington post, donoghue told donald trump, quote, he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal
investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a grand jury, much less a trial jury. clark objected well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civil litigation, an environmental litigation, things like that. clark said, according to the donoghue disposition. that s right, you are an environmental lawyer, how about you go back to your office and we will call you when there s an oil spill. at the end of the meeting trump decided not to make jeffrey clark the acting attorney general, saying, i appreciate you being willing to suffer the abuse but the reality is you are not going to get anything done donoghue, these guys are going to quit, everyone else is going to resign. it s going to be a disaster. the bureaucracy will you live. and no matter how much you want to get things done in the next few weeks you won t be able to get it done, and it s not going to be worth the breakage. clark was shot down by other lawyers in the room when he tried to discuss what authority v
have on january 6th, in counting the electoral college votes. but that wasn t the end of that idea. attorney john eastman push the idea in the white house, of having mike pence reject the electoral votes from key states won by joe biden. the january 6th committee vice chair, liz cheney, [ released a video today , previewing testimony to the committee about john eastman. president trump had no factual basis for what he was doing. and he had been told it was illegal. despite this, president trump plotted with a lawyer, john eastman, and others to overturn the outcome of the election on january 6th. to give you a sense of the gravity of these issues, here is a clip of one of president trump s own white house lawyers, eric herschmann, who talks to mr. eastman the day after january 6th. it was the day after eastman