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machines, declare the election corrupt and investigate conspiracy claims. watch. between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do, what i m just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. just say it was corrupt. we also learned that when top doj officials refused to back his false election claims, trump wanted to install a little known doj environmental attorney and trump loyalist jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on the details of that in a moment. let s begin with cnn political corr ....
new names of republican lawmakers who allegedly asked trump for pardons, plus learning from the film maker who turned over hours of footage of the president and his family to the january 6th committee. what did he tell investigators today? and a major decision from the supreme court on guns. critics say it s adding fuel to the fire when it comes to gun violence in america. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. it s a quote, a brazen statement from then-president trump after he had been told that every single allegation of mass fraud was faulse, every one. his response, say it was corrupt, leave the rest to me, a quote the deputy general richard donohue told today that trump told him on december 27th, 2020. you also noted mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he ....
plausible deniability and frankly a legal defense that he can now use. former fbi agent asha and neal, thank you. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. i m jose diaz-balart. right now we are awaiting decisions from the supreme court. just four cases to go for this session. including one on immigration that will decide whether a controversial trump era rule will stay in effect. and bombshell testimony. we are taking a deep dive into where the january 6 committee goes next after revelations of a witness to key conversations the morning of the insurrection. the president said something to the effect of i m the f g president. take me up to the capitol now. we will discuss more with congresswoman norma torres. plus new details in the death of 51 people trying to migrate to the united states. what their deaths tell us about the risks people are willing to take to get to the united states. new today major move ....
two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her father s goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e results of the 2020 election and throw out votes from people who might not have voted for him. alex holder had extensive access to the 2020 trump campaign for this documentary that s going to air later this summer on the streaming service discovery plus which we should know shares the same parent company as cnn. discovery provided the clips to cnn. let s look now at the first clip from alex holder s documentary. you re going to see part of an interview with then vice president mike pence ....
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 ....