the fbi stopped him, he said, and seized his phone. we were stopped to go through a hardee s in mankato where i was born in mankato, minnesota and cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us and i said, uh, they are either bad guys or the fbi. well, they turned south. they were the fbi. there you have it. he s talking about what he went through and gives you a little bit of a clue into how law enforcement works. they know where he is, they choose a place where they think they can make the best possible contact and they take what they need to that they ve had lawfully approved. he s a conspiracy theorist and had a front row seat in the trump white house. he says the feds there as you heard took the phone. this comes after they seized the phones of other trump aides including one who admitted to the fraudulent elector plot. seven have had their phones seeded. this is an interesting addition because it is mostly political leaders or lawyers who have what y
insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm
department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says it s going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when today s witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in today s hearing, congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, one of only two republicans on the panel. all this comes after the select committee deposed filmmaker alex holder behind closed doors this morning about his documentary, which features never-before-seen interviews with trump and me members of his inner circle, both before and after january 6th. cnn has gotten first look at the documentary. we ve been sharing some of these key clips. as the committee is about to focus on jeffrey clark, let
Mr. reserved donahue has served in the department of justice for over 14 years. mr. donahue it was a united states attorney for the eastern district of new york. then, became mr. rosen s principal, associate deputy attorney general, and finally acting attorney general. mr. donahue also served more than 20 years in the united states military, including the judge advocate general corps. we are also joined by mr. steven angle, the former assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. he was nominated by the former president and confirmed by the senate during the trump administration. he served from november 2017 to january 2021, and has now returned to private practice. i will now swear in our witnesses. if the witnesses will please stand and raise the right hands.
Allegations specific to pennsylvania, which included amongst others, this allegation that the secretary of state had certified more votes than were actually cast. then you direct the local u.s. attorney s office to investigate that claim? so, mr. perry said that he had a great deal of information, that investigations have been done, that there was some sort of forensic type report that would be helpful to me. i didn t know of congressman perry. i had never heard of him before this conversation. i said, sir, if you have something that you think is relevant to what the justice department s mission is, you should be field sounded to me. he did. it went from new york through washington. i got it. i looked at it on my iphone. obviously, i couldn t read the whole thing on transit like that. but, i looked at it to get a feel for what it was, and then i forwarded to the united states attorney for the government of pennsylvania. they get back to?