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Committee is investigating. this preliminary report tells us a lot of alarming things we did not know before about how the justice department ended up right in the middle of all of this stuff. some ways unwitting and some ways witting. some of what emerges really is just remarkable. this guy jeff clark, who was given b.j. paks cellphone number and he was saying whos going to call me? why is he going to call me? jeffrey clark, unknown justice department official. he was the head of the environmen...

Federal prosecutors around the country, use the resources of your office to chase this down. its not the way the u.s. justice department is supposed to work. now that we know the justice department did work that way under trump, whats the justice department going to do about it? what is the justice department doing with this new knowledge that its senior officials, up to the highest levels of the department, attorney general, deputy attorney general, they tried to use the department. once you at...

U.s. attorneys in michigan and pennsylvania. he as the deputy attorney general of the united states justice department told u.s. attorneys in michigan and pennsylvania that they should use justice department resources to go check that out. to try to substantiate these nonsense claims that were coming from the white house. to be clear, these claims about voter fraud in michigan and pennsylvania, these didnt bubble up from local law enforcement efforts in michigan and pennsylvania and thats how th...

Were ridiculous allegations to pursue them beyond the point where they were credible begins to take you outside of the scope of the protection of doing legitimate law enforcement investigations. in any event, there are a lot of dealt of justice policies about what you do when, when you are closing in on an investigation, when you are in that sensitive period around the elections and around the count. i suspect they were sloppy about this. theres the rules we have talked about before about contac...

Benner who has been crushing this story since before day one. thank you, again, for making time to be here and understanding this reporting. it remains one of the most amazing stories of our time. >> thanks for having me. >> in terms of this interim report by the judiciary committee, what materials they want access to, what they still want to get? >> from what i know about baseball, i would say were in the third or fourth inning. they want to speak with jeff clark, for example, who is somebody w...

Investigations into serious allegations, serious and credible allegations of election fraud in georgia and other states that biden won. the plan was that the justice -- the united states justice department would send a scary letter to republican-led state legislatures in each of the states that biden won. the letter would tell the legislatures that there were serious matters under investigation by the justice department and it would tell the legislatures they should come back into session, into ...

It was late january when "the new york times" dropped this from justice department reporter katie benner. trump and justice department lawyer said to have plotted to oust acting attorney general. that report prompted an eight month investigation into trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his efforts to use the justice department as a tool for doing so. that investigation produced todays jaw dropping report and hundreds of pages of supporting material. report found that the jus...

Them being cast as heroes in their own telling of the movie. here is the problem for the u.s. justice department on its own terms and today. here is the problem that has landed in attorney general garlands lap. the problem is that before, in the end, they finally all offered to quit to stop this plot, before they did that, a bunch of them helped in the plot. they didnt just passively observe that this is what trump wanted and this is what trump was pursuing and this is how trump wanted to use th...

Just disregarding the purported election results and do what they needed to do to declare trump the winner. or at least to not declare biden the winner. do what you need to do. justice department will back you up. thats bat bleep crazy. right? as bj pack said. you can imagine how it would work. if they sent that letter to even one state and the republican legislature acted on it, it would spread to others. all the other states, they would do the same. even if it didnt work in multiple states, ju...

I feel like the thing that is missing from the analysis of this today and all the revelations here is that disturbing facts, the now disturbing time line we have got about other senior justice department officials, including attorney general william barr, using the powers of the justice department in an irregular, out of chain of command kind of way, to get the justice department to bolster trumps made-up claims about fraud. these made-up claims he was using to try to stay in office. all the att...