today. you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchange former acting attorney general jeff rosen described in talking to trump during that time. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the location. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly, and said essentially that s not what i am asking you to do. what i am just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. reporter: and when it
legal manner, and have these legal challenges and they were gee rooe jekted time and time and time and time again. and he became more desperate in that sense of he started trying to use the justice department to use it at his will to try to get his way for political gain. and that is what these officials were laying out. the idea that jeffrey rosen when he was acting attorney general after bill barr had resigned, said he spoke to trump nearly every day. he said the only exception he could remember was christmas. and thery were all about these election fraud claims he was asking them to look into, that he had seen either on or television, including one so desperate that he had the chief of staff call defense department, the pentagon call the defense attache in italy and ask them to look into a claims that italian software had opinion uploaded to a chat s.a.t. light and used to change vote. it was that kind of crazy stuff which they described as pure insanity today. and i think it just
The Defense Department said it is boosting the restrictive measures implemented to deal with the novel coronavirus amid the increase in cases in Washington, DC and the surrounding areas of the US capital.
WASHINGTON — All Defense Department civilian employees must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Nov. 22, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said in a memorandum issued Monday.