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Keriks latest maneuvers in dealing with the 1/6 committee. what is this particular trump ally trying to accomplish with his, shall we call it, half-hearted cooperation with the committee. >> so my read of it, actually is, he -- it packages a lot of genuine cooperation, where hes actually provided, as you pointed out, this very substantiative document an their strategic communications plan in the ten-day blitz before january 6th, talked about which partners they were working with, put a lot of na...

Already that he was the conduit between donald trump and jeffrey clark at the justice department who wrote out that draft letter to georgia explaining the road map to throwing out the electors and substituting the legislators choice. he seems to be someone who has a lot of information. what will be interesting to see is if he does not voluntarily compile with this request, will they take it up a notch and serve him with a subpoena? i think we have reached the point where these niceties really ne...

Proposed letter reportedly drafted by jeffrey clark, a letter to georgia from the u.s. justice department telling the state legislator in georgia that the justice department effectively wanted them to flip the election results in that state and declare trump the winner. do not send biden electors to the electoral college even though biden won. so says the u.s. justice department. according to the chief investigative counsel at the january 6th investigation, quote, the metadata in that draft lett...

We wanted to talk specifically with him about efforts that he proposed the department of justice take with respect to election fraud. we wanted to ask him, for instance, about a draft letter to georgia officials that he put forth that was the justice department asking georgia legislative officials to convene a special session and consider the appointment of an alternate slate of electors. we intended to go through specific representations in that draft letter and ask for their basis. now get thi...

Justice department effectively wanted them to flip the election results in that state and declare trump the winner. do not send biden to the electoral college. so says the u.s. justice department. according to the chief investigative council, quote, the metadata in that draft letter indicates some involvement with the white house communications agency in the drafting or preparation of that letter. white house was involved in that? telling georgia and other states telling them to flip the results...

Whole long list of things that they wanted to ask jeff clark about. and its a big whole gamut. it runs for three or four pages in the transcript. they want to ask him about him potentially using personal e-mail and personal devices to do this government work. they want to ask him about his communications with president trump after the election about the election. they say they believe that jeff clark had never met president trump until after the election and they want to know about why it was th...

To georgia officials that he put forth that was the justice department asking georgia legislative officials to conveno a special session and consider the appointment of an alternate slate of inspectors. we intended to go through specificd representations and k for their basis. now get this. look at this. quote, i also wanted to ask him about metadata in that draft letter that indicates some involvement with the white house communications agency in the drafting or preparation of that letter. hold...

My guest. lets go out front. and good evening. im erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. the january 6th select committee just minutes away from a vote to try to hold former-justice department official jeffrey clark in criminal contempt. now, we are going to bring that to you when it it happens. clark tried to help trump overturn the 2020 election and st stonewalled the committee last month. if the vote passes, clark is likely to become the second person to be held in contempt. th...

Public-facing evidence, thats georgia. i want the read the report from clarks letter. on december 28th clark emailed rosen and donahue a draft letter addressed to the georgia governor, general assembly speak -- the letter was entitled jad gentleman proof of concept. clark suggested replicating it in each relevant state. it was just a blueprint. the letter would have informed state officials that d.o.j. had taken notice of election irregular lartsds in their state and recommended calling a especi...

Documents that have been released over the last several weeks is a draft letter that a top official jeffrey clark wanted to send to georgia as well as to multiple other states telling them falsely that the justice department had found evidence of significant voter fraud in their states and calling on those state legislators to take steps to overturn their own elections. the fact that a very senior doj official was willing to put the u.s. department of justice on a lie and it was only a few other...