ashley: a new york post report revealed top doj lawyer was partners with hunter biden s personal attorneys. you would think this is a conflict of interest. what do you snng big conflict of interest, reason people are saying we may need a special counsel to step in, this investigation started in 2018 and people wonder if this is trans parent and if we can trust what the doj is doing. we learned fbi officials reached out to facebook, mark zuckerberg admitted on this. we haven t gotten a straight answer from the fbi of what this disinformation was, but it points to the hunter biden laptop and americans are asking can we trust any institutions? we are concerned about the fbi, concerned about the doj, reports about the department of treasury
hutchinson gives us a lot more insight into why. cipollone was atop the white house counsel s in meetings with top doj officials, as well as the chief of staff and the president himself. hutchinson yesterday detailing some of those conversations that she had with cipollone where he told her that he was concerned about the legal ramifications of what it would mean for the former president to come to the hill, despite the fact that he really wanted to do so, and of course conversations he had with mark meadows, at one point in hutchinson s words, cipollone warned if they didn t do more to stop at the capitol, they would have blood on their hands. liz cheney in a tweet, again, imploring cipollone to come forward, in part saying as we heard yesterday, cipollone had significant concerns regarding trump s january 6th activities. she says it s time for cipollone to testify on the record, any concerns he has about the institutional interests of his prior office are outweighed by the need for h
clark and people very close to the president during these pivotal days, right around january 6, suggests that this investigation is far from over. and that raid was happening on the very day that we heard from top doj officials. and they helped to shed light on trump s attempts to weaponize the justice department to overturn the election. what was most striking about that day of testimony to you? well, fred, they didn t do it. they convinced the president not to put clark in charge. other wise there was going to be mass resignations at department of justice. this is a situation where i think trump loaded the gun but didn t pull the trigger. there is no question in my mind if he had actually put clark in charge and clark had sent that draft letter, state officials in georgia and elsewhere saying, look, dojs that there was fraud in this election, we ve got serious concerns, none of that was true. but if trump put him in place
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warnings of mass resignations, conspiracy theories about italian spy satellites calls for pardons and an effort by trump allies to install an acting attorney general to help the president steal the election. the committee laid out the case that trump loyalists believed that jeffrey clark should become acting attorney general. that s because he was more favorable to allegations of voter fraud. the president wanted the department to sow doubt in the legitimacy of the election, to empower his followers and members of congress to take action. if the department could just lend its credibility to the conspiracies, people would have the justification they needed to spread the big lie. g.o.p. pennsylvania representative scott perry texted white house chief of staff mark meadows in an effort to elevate clark to pursue election theories. in fact, after a meeting on january 3rd, top doj officials nearly quit en masse in protest