the 2020 election. alex holder joined me after his meeting today with the january 6th committee. he has turned over more than 11 hours of footage, but donald trump and his footage before the election. we have an exclusive clip from his trump documentary series. first, the explosive fifth january 6th committee hearing, and trumps explosive plot trying to strong-arm justice department leadership into keeping him in power. attempting to strong-arm officials to legitimize his election lies. namely, jeffrey clark and his attempt to take over the entire justice department to advance a two on the president s behalf. today, we learned more about a january 3rd meeting, where clark made a case to the president, to fire then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and to appoint him as attorney general. here, in the words of justice department officials, they all threatened to resign if the scheme went ahead and warned of even worse. i said, mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you w
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 layin
have you seen donald trump s mugshot yet? nor mr. president i did sea icy it on television. what did you think? well, obviously, tongue-in-cheek there. van, what s your reaction? you re smiling. look, that s biden. he knows better than to wade into those waters too much. if he said more than that, they would say, we told you that biden would sick the doj on trump. he played this very, very well. as far as ramaswamy, this guy has the worst ideas in american politics, if he has any ideas at all. he doesn t want to help israel, doesn t want to defend taiwan, wants to give russia a clean shot at ukraine. he is the worst. he has a big mouth and he was able to kind of bully and body everybody on stage and become the center of attention. that lets you know we are in a different political age.
Have that because they deserve to know that. based on your dealings with the doj on trump s behalf until, again, just days ago, do you think the doj has approached your client fairly? your former client. no, not at all. it is something that has been stunning to me from the beginning of the manner in which this doj team has treated this case. that is a stunning departure from how doj normally handles any other case. and, you know, i m going to go back into it, you know, there has been significant prosecutorial misconduct. i have seen it with my own eyes. i saw members of jack smith s team stand up in a sealed courtroom and lie to a federal judge. i saw a federal prosecutor in the grand jury room asking improperly questions, making improper inferences to the jury, and trying to convince them that the invocation of a constitutional right is evidence of guilt. and i ve also heard, you know,
And to me i thought the committee might at the minimum still issue a finding that donald trump was responsible for the insurrection on january 6th. the fact they re going a step further and saying, no, we actually mean for criminal liability purposes and that he could be charged under the federal criminal code is where they ve pushed this, and i think that s historically taking a step back and thinking about that an incredible moment for the country having congress say that about a former president i think that alone is one step in that direction. my sources have told me and my colleagues jamie gangel and amy grayer that the committee has not just been focusing on donald trump and whether to send a committee referral to doj on trump. there are others that they focused on heavily during the hearings over several months including john eastman, including rudy giuliani, including justin clark. so there s still a lot more to