it had a lot of detail in it and they took a lot of acts of furtherance toward it, the reason it fell apart was because the then-attorney general, a guy named jeff rosen, wouldn t sign on to it. when rosen wouldn t side off on it, wouldn t allow this plot to go forward, trump then tried to replace rosen with jeff clark. tried to install jeff clark himself as attorney general, so the clark plan would go ahead. again, to have the justice department declare serious fraud in the election and to direct states to therefore not send their biden electors. it was absolutely insane. it was also a rational plan, that they didn t just spit ball about. they didn t just fantasize about it. they drafted the letter to the states. he did insist on the press conference to other justice department officials. the justice department officials even tried to on-board u.s. attorneys, federal prosecutors in the relevant states to back them up on these spurious fraud claims they were going to use to keep trump
clark. he was the person if rosen wouldn t do trump s bidding and rosen didn t. there was a time the president was going to put his own man in as attorney general. reporter: so much scrutiny of those days and weeks that trump was still in office but had lost the presidency. it s a reminder that he s no longer here, we talk about the shadow that looms large over the republican party. the power he has over it. there s a lot of investigating still being done trying to put new pieces of the puzzling together, new information that is continuous oi coming out from some of those people in things like the department of justice during that time. clearly, a lot of new information still to be shared as the senators and lawmakers continue looking into the weeks on what the former president was doing. here on the hill, some milling about from lawmakers because they are in the midst of trying to pass that bipartisan infrastructure bill. definitely not going along as