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some of that evidence comes from a tip line and some of it from a british made documentary featuring ivanka trump who told a crew in mid-december 2020 that donald trump should continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted because, she said, people were questioning the sanctity of our elections. now, that sounds a little bit different from what she said in testimony revealed this month. in april this year ivanka said she believed attorney general bill barr s conclusion that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. how did that affect your perspective of the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made his view public on december 1, 2020. a few days before ivanka spoke to the documentary crew. we should mention that the documentary by british filmmaker alex holder is now owned by discovery plus, a division of cnn s parent company, ....
department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says it s going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when today s witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in today s hearing, congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, one of only two republicans on the panel. all this comes after the select committee deposed filmmaker alex holder behind closed doors this morning about his documentary, which features never-before-seen interviews with trump and me members of his inner circle, both before and after january 6th. cnn has gotten first look at the documentary. we ve been sharing some of these key clips. as the committee is about to focus on jeffrey clark ....
the january 6th hearing today. our continuing coverage along with our panel of parts, who i m going bring in in a moment. but what s going on today is another set of break-throughs in this set of hearings, include people naming names. we re learning which specific republican lawmakers were literally asking for last-minute pardons for their own conduct. the focus today is how the committee laid out this new evidence of donald trump s efforts to get people installed and promoted within the department of justice to carry out a coup. three doj officials testifying about what they did, including a tense oval office meeting with resignations with that coup plot moved forward. this was happening in the hairy days before january 6th and drew on testimony both live and in these video taped depositions like you see here. jeffrey clark, more on his liam problems in a moment, was the one that was going to be bodying up to take over the justice department for the explicit purpose of ....
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it ....
Fasten your seatbelts, federal judge in hawaii blocked the travel been just before it takes effect, has extended that order. Derek watson further blocking the government from restricting noncitizen travelers from six muslim majority countries. In seattle mayor ed murray announced he is suing the Trump Administration over threats to withhold federal funds from Sanctuary Cities who refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials, that brought several Sanctuary City Mayors and Police Chiefs to washington for a meeting with john kelly seeking to find some Common Ground. It is absolutely untrue that our priorities anything other than keeping our communities safe. We dont have the resources to be ....