remarkable about his, career he became the acting assistant attorney general for the doj s civil division, which is a very big job, at the very end of donald trump s term, that s when a lot of people were fleeing. once trump lost the election, jeffrey clark became one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice, pushing the justice department, to play its role in trump s attempts to overturn the election. clark even reportedly plotted directly with trump, two outs the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen at the, time and take his job. the senate judiciary committee detailed some of clark s actions in that bombshell report last week. they pointed out that he met with trump personally and then urged the department of justice leadership to interview in the georgia election. he drafted a kind of template letter, a letter from the acting attorney general, to send georgia, titled georgia proof of concept. basically telling, then the doj is investigating voter fraud, and you s
but tonight i feel i need to give credit where credit is due. if you had asked me in the past whether that particular former president could bring america together across partisan lines, i would have scoffed at you. if you had put the proposition to me that donald trump of all people could bring republicans who support him and democrats together as one, if not in unison at least in harmony, i would not have believed you that he would be the man to do that, but here we are tonight. i want to tell you that i am able to admit it. in a very special and specific way donald trump tonight has brought america together across partisan lines. with this statement that he just released. i will read it to you in full. he says, quote, if we don t solve the presidential election fraud of 2020, which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented, republicans will not be voting in 22 or 24. it is the single most important thing for republicans to do. ta-da. democrats and republicans join h
melanie coburn thank you very much for joining. the i very much appreciated. thanks. chris that s all in for this wednesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right. now good evening. rachel good evening chris thank you my. friends fantastic show tonight by the way. you ve been doing great shows recently, but tonight was amazing. i appreciate. and thanks don for recently, but tonight was amazing. i appreciate it. thanks for joining us this hour. let me just start with an admission here. i will admit i fully recognize and i will admit that over the years there has been some tough reporting and tough commentary on this show about former president donald trump. i m also fully aware we have invited numerous guests on to this show over the years newsmakers, experts, former government officials, who have also at times expressed tough minded sentiments about donald trump. i am not hiding the ball here. i know that this show broadly speaking has had a lot of tough words f