for damaging democracy in this country. certainly as things drip out from the senate judiciary committee and department of justice it is looking worse and worse as if it wasn t just a one off, it wasn t just one instance where donald trump tried to convince the attorney general to get involved. it was a calculated, premeditated plan to pressure the department of justice and not dissimilar to the saturday night massacre where two attorneys general had to resign before the solicitor general at the time would actually do president nixon s bidding. donald trump had similar plans to fire jeffrey rosen and fire richard donahue and then to elevate jeffery clark to be the ag so that that letter we now know could go out. this is scary as you point out.
criminal investigation related to january 6th, we don t know at this point whether that investigation has included any interviews with jeffrey rosen, or richard donahue, or vijay putt. we don t know that. my fear is that everything of course in congress s lead. that s not a surprise. the igs department for the department of justice keeps their stuff confidential. if that is linking to the press, my concern is that there is no leaks about any jeffrey rosen testimony to the fbi, or to the u.s. attorney s office. i am concerned that we haven t heard about that and it s possible it s going on or we don t know about it. that is where accountability really lies at this point. it s not through the senate judiciary committee even though that is important.
to january 6th. we don t know at this point whether that investigation has included any interviews that with jeffrey rosen or richard donahue or b.j. pak. we don t know that. my fear is that everything of course in congress is leaked so that s not a surprise. but the ig s office for the department of justice generally keeps their investigations confidential. and if that is leaking to the press, my concern is that the there is no leak about any jeffrey rosen testimony to the fbi or to the u.s. attorney s office. and so i am concerned that we haven t heard about that. it s possible it is going on and we don t know about it. but that is where accountability really lies at this point. it is not through the senate judiciary committee even though that is important. it is through a very intensive
president who was walking around without facing legal consequences for damaging democracy in this country. certainly ask things drip out from the senate judiciary committee and the department of justice, it s looking worse and worse as if it wasn t just a one-off, it wasn t just the one instance where donald trump tried to convince the attorney general to get involved, it was a calculated premeditated plan to pressure the department of justice and not dissimilar to the saturday night massacre were to attorney general s had to resign before the solicitor general at the time would actually do present next nixon s bidding. donald trump had similar plans to fire jeffrey rosen and fire richard donahue and then to elevate jeffrey clark to be the a.g. so that that letter we now know could go out.