phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators yesterday. former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we are going to have more on that right in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former presidents effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in the 2020 election. take a listen to this incredible moment recalled today of a white house meeting just days before january 6 involving jeffrey clark, today s witnesses, the white house counsel, and then president trump. clark had just explained his plan, and here s how white house counsel eric hirschman responded. a warning, now, some of the language is a little bit sal
good evening. i m anderson cooper along with my colleague jake tapper in washington for a special two-hour 360, looking at what was a truly extraordinary day of witness testimony and stunning new details revealed during the january 6th committee hearings. former top officials at the justice department offering details, sometimes moment by moment descriptions of private phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. part of today s hearing focused on someone whose home was actually raided by federal investigators yesterday, former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we re going to have more on that raid in just a moment. the committee s interest about clark has to do with the former president s effort to install clark as acting attorney general so that clark could use the levers of the justice department to subvert joe biden s victory in t
i don t need the truth. i just need a statement from you. what s remarkable here is the president was going to fight it all. yeah, i think that s right. and install jeffrey clark, who was going to do his bidding. in these days, we see a president who is kind of gripped with a kind of desperate need to hold on to power. he is a con artist looking for a mark, right? tries to get pence to go along with him. that doesn t work. he tries to get folks at the doj to go along with him. that doesn t work. he looks in these different states, right, in georgia, in arizona, to try to get folk to go along with him. finally in the end he does find a mark, right? it s essentially these supporters, his followers on january 6. they re the ones that really in the end do his bidding, try to essentially overthrow the government in a kind of violent coup on january 6th. and that is what we will see unfold in the coming hearings. coming up next on the new and damaging details presented
department officials were complaining that the committee was not sharing transcript enough. it s possible, this is pure speculation by me, it s possible that the committee started handing over these, these transcripts. they knew that, i think donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general, was going to say that jeffrey clark was meddling in elections , which is a criminal activity. right. so maybe they just wanted to get ahead of it. they knew that this person i don t know. we is a former justice department official basically accused jeffrey clark of a crime today. . we don t know to the degree that this committee is cooperating with the doj. one of the reasons i haven t wanted to give some of these transcript up is because then they are subject to discovery. the doj is obviously conducting its own investigation of folks who were involved in and around january 6. but this was a surprise to the committee, apparently, that jeffrey clark, his home was raided, was clearly a surp
this development? reporter: first of all, jake, this is a surprising twist here in the halls of congress just for this hearing, where testimony about jeff clark took center stage. what we know about this raid was it happened in the predawn hours on wednesday. it s part of the overall doj investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. and it happened on the same day the doj sent subpoenas to people involved in trump s push to send the ultimate slate of electors. now, we know that clark was central in that, and in trump s overall plan that he worked with trump, devise a plan for trump to put him in as the acting attorney general so that he could use the power of the justice department to overturn the election results. that was part of the evidence and testimony that was laid out here today. we reached out for an attorney to an attorney for clark, who didn t respond, but clark s