focused, in part, on jeff clark. we knew to expect that today we would learn a lot about what the investigation found about mr. clark and what party allegedly played in trump s parts efforts to overthrow the government. but we did not know before today, though, is that in addition to the january 6th investigation in congress, being interested in him, apparently federal criminal investigators have been focused on him too. and it shall indications are that, in, fact the january six investigators in congress were just as surprised as the rest of us today, to learn about this predawn search of jeffrey clark s house yesterday. federal agents, among other things, apparently seized his electronic devices while executing that search warrant. so, we are going to be talking tonight about that bombshell development, later on this evening. we will be talking about, that what it means, how it relates to the committee s work. we will also be joined by a member of the january six investigation to tal
the department of justice. do either of those divisions have any role, whatsoever, in investigating election fraud, sir? no. to my awareness, jeff clarke had had no prior involvement of any kind with regard to the work the department was doing, that attorney general barr has talked about to this committee. let s take a minute and explain why the president mentioned in jeff clark s name to mr. rosen here, on christmas eve. on december 21st, some republican members of congress met with president trump in the white house, to talk about overturning the 2020 election. let s hear representative marjorie taylor greene talk about how this meeting got set up. i was the only new member at the meeting. i ve met president trump on saturday and said, we ve got to have a meeting. and there s many of us that feel like this election has been stolen. on the screen, you will see that president trump s chief of staff tweeted about that meeting right after it happened.
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 the sky, and then this guy would and after the trump plan, to have states that biden won decertify their votes, to instead proclaim trump had won those states and to have those states cast their electoral college votes for trump. clark promised to carry it out. we got new detailed revelations about every step of how they tried to do that today. and we will have more on that coming up in just a moment. i think that it s pre
klukowski was simultaneously working with jeffrey clark to draft the proposed letter to georgia officials, to overturn their certified election. and, working with doctor eastman to help pressure the vice president to help overturn the election. we did not know these things were connected. we ve got to john eastman, the architect of the whole fake elector scheme, apparently, he got his guy dropped into the justice department in the very last weeks of the trump administration. trump lost the election the first week of november. how do you then get a new justice department job in mid december? but this guy did. he got dropped into the justice department, drop specifically into geoff clark s office. eastman s guy. and eastman s cockamamie legal theories then get included in this letter, that the justice department is going to send out to overthrow the election in all the swing states that trump lost. eastman and trump s theory, thereby appears to emerge organically from inside the justic
know before is that trump had more than one in road into the justice department. he had jeffrey clark. he also had another man named ken klukowski. ken came to the justice department just 35 days before the inauguration. he came in the middle of december, right around the time that bill barr was leaving. can had previously, in that time between the election and his arrival at the justice department, worked with eastman, the lawyer who was working on the fake electors scheme. and he had worked with him before coming to doj. the committee made clear that those connections were really important, including by taking another look at that georgia letter. and pointing out that further down in the letter, you see some of that rhetoric around fake electors. a letter that jeffrey clark wanted sent to georgia not only says falsely the justice department thought that the election might have been rigged in georgia, but that it would be an opportunity for the state of georgia to take another look