general for long enough for someone to change his title to acting attorney general on the white house call log. he has the most descriptive term for what trump tried to do that day, a murder/suicide pact. talk about what he new with donohue and rosen and his deputy white house counsels, mr. philbin and mr. herschmann. so what justice department officials have testified is they thought the letter to georgia and the plan that jeffrey clark had was not only wrong because it was factually wrong, but they would undo the election and they would basically cause chaos within the justice department and within america at large, but what cipollone is saying which i think is interesting and the committee will really want to press on is the idea of whether or not it was legal and it was not just a murder/suicide pact and it was something he did not put in front of him and at the white house counsel, it s not because it seems like a bad
trump calls ravens perger and it s the next day when he makes clark the attorney general for as many hours as it takes to change his title on the white house call log, but this testimony about meadows it wasn t just a whim to stop by. plan a secret service movement. and you have the secret service planning a route and it is now a scheduled stop. talk about how much more the committee plans in future hearings to sort of flush out the intersectionality between the white house actors and the ones closely and now knowingly tied to the violence. i mean, you can see exactly what liz cheney is doing there. she s a lawyer herself and she s taking the witness step by step through the connections to get you from donald trump toe the groups that lead the storming of the capitol, right? and so she s connecting trump to
do it. he ordered his deputy attorney to do it. refused to do it. what we did not know is when york did it was the agreement among the three of them, nixon, the attorney general, would both resign and refuse to do it. they made a compliment to the senate that they would only fire cox for gross improprioties. they wanted someone in the department of justice so nixon would not put one of his cronies in. donahue noted he was unqualified to lead the doj. on january 3rd there were white house call log that refer to jeffrey clark as the acting ag. did trump just assume he would get his way? of course, he thought he would put him in there. he was put in there as a puppet. what i found disturbing is
bidding. what s so amazing, what we saw today for the first time was some of the evidence that we had understood this committee had marshaled, but i don t know that we had ever seen it before. we saw some of the call logs they have, and interestingly, jeff clark gets the title, at least on the white house call log, of acting attorney general of the united states of america. he calls the president one, two, three, four, what, five, six, seven times or six times and his title gets changed sometime between 1:13 p.m. and 4:19 p.m. ahead of that oval so either someone misreads a cue or donald trump actually expresses his intent to make this switch that would have had the result that mr. donoghue testified to. yeah, when you re building a criminal conspiracy, nicole, you have to build both the intent and the overt acts. these are the kind of things, using white house evidence, of the overt acts. to neal s point, something that came through is this is the first time we have heard people t
and claim that speaker nancy pelosi was responsible for stopping the violence. fact check, nancy pelosi does not have total control over the capitol police. trump also said he did not remember getting very many phone calls that day when he was asked about the seven and a half hour gap in the white house call log. we also learned the manhattan district attorney s criminal investigation into trump s businesses is still active. back in february, the two prosecutors leading the case resigned, leaving its future in doubt. today the district attorney said that it is still open. prosecutors can disagree on next steps. i thought there were more avenues, more work to be done, more things we could follow up on. reviewing documents and witnesses, following up on evidence not previously analyzed and looked at or secured by the office. and that is not the only legal woe for the former