but it was a sort of a different type of information then the rest of what was revealed today. the main revelations today, the main points of the hearing today, we re all about the u. s. justice department and how trump plans to use the justice department to overthrow the government and stay in power. in this part of the plot, the justice department would essentially tell the country that trump was right, there really was tons of fraud, swing states won by biden, probably really were not won by biden. the justice department would in fact tell those swing states that they really should consider sending in trump electors to the electoral college instead of biden electors. that was the plan the justice department play at that role. and how they carry out that plan? the vehicle for this part of the plan was, this official, jeffrey clark. the plan was to fire the attorney general, or place him with this guy, and then this guy would and after the trump plan, to have states that biden won dec
0 me or met with me virtually every day. the president, throughout all these meetings and telephone conversations, was adamant that he had one and that we were not doing our job. the president said, just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gaetz and mr. brooks mr. gaetz was the first to ask for a pardon. [inaudible] i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought that it was [inaudible] how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace with [inaudible] jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. rachel maddow,
attorney general sessions is a graduate of huntington college and the university of alabama law school. welcome, attorney general sessions. your entire written statement will be entered into the record and we ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes by noted that the ranking member took a few more minutes than that, if you find that necessary please feel free to do that as well. welcome. thank you, very much. mr. chairman, it s an honor to be before this distinguished committee, having served 20 years on your counterpart in the senate, the senate judiciary committee. mr. chairman, i must note that i note with regret your announcement of retirement and i know that our relationship has been good in the past and i hope it will continue to be good as you serve here. you ve done a fabulous job in leading this committee. on my first day as attorney general i spoke about, quote, the critical role we at the department play in maintaining
army reserve. attorney general sessions is a graduate of huntington college and the university of alabama law school. welcome attorney general sessions. your entire written statement will be entered into the record and we ask that you summarize your testimony in five minutes. noted by the ranking member took a few more minutes than that. if you find it necessary, please feel free to do that as well. welcome. thank you very much, mr. chairman. an honor to be before this distinguished committee having served 20 years on your counterpart in the senate judiciary committee. mr. chairman, i must note that i note with regret your announcement of retirement and i know that our relationship has been good in the past and i hope it will continue to be good as you serve here. you ve done a fabulous job in leading this committee. on my first day as attorney general, i spoke about quote, the critical role we at the department play in maintaining
phones. well, the government says there is no other way, other than this patriot act provision, for them to track somebody like that as efficiently or as quickly. that seems like something you could really point to. as for the other provisions though there are other ways of getting that info in some cases, just might not be the best path or the easiest path for the government and in the case of boat collection michelle hold on a second. sorry. we re getting the feed now from the white house. reporter: sounds good. take a listen. good. attorney general lynch and i just discussed a wide range of issues and at the regular meetings that i have with some of my top cabinet members, and we discussed issues of cyber security. we discussed the important role that the fbi and the justice department play in our counterterrorism efforts, as well as discussing issues like