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D.c. bar to look into mr. clark and whether he should be disciplined as a lawyer for what he did here. i as i explained in the intro am struck by the fact that there were other senior justice department officials who were very willing to use the resources of the department to jump down the rabbit holes on trumps behalf, the deputy attorney general and the attorney general mr. barr, all of whom told us attorneys to chase this stuff down. is that a problem for the justice department in an ongoing ...

Overturn the results of the presidential election to stay in power, despite his losing that election. thats what the judiciary 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 way witting. this guy jeff clark, who was given packs cellphone number. who is this guy? why is he going to call me? jeffrey clark, unknown justice dep...

-- senior officials tried to help trump. william barr not only personally telling u.s. attorneys to make it their first priority to investigate some of these claims, but telling the fbi to interview specific witnesses. the attorney general, the deputy attorney general getting involved personally t try to push this out. is that seen as a problem in the justice department going forward? >> i think that there are calls by former justice department employees and current employees that one of the rea...

Threatened the attorney general. if you dont sign, i will be attorney general and i will sign it. they will tell republicans in the state legislatures where biden won that the justice department is treating the election as a crime scene. they should throw out the election results, take steps to keep trump in office. this guy is willing to do it. trump is very willing to put him in charge of the justice department so he can carry out that plot. what stops is that everybody else in the justice dep...

Justice department official, richard donagueh, emailed him, writing please call asap. two people familiar with the he matter said it was conveyed what the meeting said about him. he stepped down, and was replaced by a new u.s. attorney, a man named bobby christine, who trump viewed as more amenable to his voter fraud claims. this is the fullest accounting weve yet had of that incident. the president pushing these bogus election fraud claims in georgia because he doesnt want to have lost georgia....

Ranking justice department lawyer named jeffrey clark seemed to entertain trumps requests. pushing internally to have the justice department assert that fraud in the state of georgia was the cause for that states lawmakers. was caused, excuse me, four that states lawmakers to disregard georgias election results and appoints new presidential electors. trump contemplated installing jeff clark as attorney general. he was then running both the environment and national resources division and also the...

Well by a state prosecutor in the state of georgia. what was said to that u.s. attorney who resigned? what was said to him by the justice department official who called him up, the one we know wanted georgia to undo its election result? what was said to him in the call from the white house? why did he resign? what did they try to get him tot do? this is starting to look like a pretty good map of the potential crime scene for the ongoing investigation.ty joining me, amy gardner. "washington post"...

Part of senior leadership at justice not to slam the door in the face of the white house officials who were emailing them, including mark meadows, the former chief of staff, but while also sort of slow walking what they were doing internally to make sure that this didnt go too far. >> at least until one u.s. attorney through this process found himself enough in the crosshairs that the president was sounding off about wanting to fire him. he got that communicated to him, apparently, and within a ...

Election results were infected with fraud and new electors should be appointed. the u.s. attorney in georgia got calls from main justice by thata official. who wanted to tell georgia officially from the justice department that georgia needed to uncertify their election and say trump won. the u.s. attorney after receiving that call, and getting a follow-up call from the white house resigns under circumstances still not clear. there is an active criminal investigation under way in the state of geo...

White house chief of staff and allies acting on the presidents behalf tried to get the u.s. justice department to take actionju based on these moon ba wing nut claims that it must have been election fraud in the states that joe biden won. the "post" reports the department did examine some of the claims from trump. and top justice department officials forwarded some of the material from trump allies to of u.s. attorneys in michigan and pennsylvania. in other words as we reported last night, they ...