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 respon
election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. that s not true. there were plenty of adults and couldn t contain him and didn t want to. the so-called adults are sharing what they really feel about trump s pursuit for power. we re talking about trump s closest allies, his own people narrating the case against him, star witnesses that included none other than attorney general william barr, a man who spent years defending and serving trump, not the american people, but who via video testimony had this to say about the president slize. bogus stuff and based on misinformation, idiot
that s right, environmental lawyer. how about go back to our your office and we ll tell you when there s an oil spill. falsely claiming there was voter fraud and call you get on them for special legislative sessions. when he finished what he planned on doing, i said good [ bleep ], excuse me, a-hole, c congratulations, attorney general would be committing a felony. clarks, whoob had his house raided by the fbi on wednesday morning testified to the committee behind closed to haves in february, but took the fifth more than 100 times. executive privilege, again, restated for the abundance of kaulgz. reporter: trump only backed down from replacing rosen with clark when the top officials all threatened to resign in protest. other aids began to kmiem in, in turn and all essentially said they would leave, resign in mass if the president made that change in the department relationship.
to the idea of replacing rosen with his man clark. quote, what do i have to lose, the president asked, according to donohue. mr. president, you have a great deal to lose, do you know hugh said, he responded. is this really how you want your administration to end? you re going to hurt the country. you re going to hurt the department. you re going to hurt yourself. with people grasping as straws on these desperate theories about election fraud. and is this really in anyone s best interest? donohue warned trump that putting clark in charge would be likely to lead to mass resignations at the justice department. donohue is one of three witnesses who will appear in person at the select committee s hearing tomorrow along with rosen and former doj assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. that s a man named stephen engel. tomorrow on the pressure kpain that trump waged against the doj. former assistant u.s. attorney maya wiley, mark schmidt, new