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from british filmmaker, alex holder. it features a december 2020 interview with trump. a source who watched that video tells cnn, that she said her father should continue to fight the election results until every legal remedy is exhausted. >> the committee says they are learning new information from their own hearings. >> evan joins us now. evan, tomorrows hearing, still a go, but what is after that? >> the hearing tomorrow is an important one, but you are right, after that it looks li...

Officials did think that rosen would be fired and that clark would replace him since, of course, clark stood behind trumps election fraud claims, so much so that about half a dozen doj officials had their resignations plotted out. but in the end, wolf, of course, trump did not fire rosen even though clark had made very clear that he was really the only one at doj who fully backed trump and his election fraud claims. >> on top of all of this abc news has now published email showing how that justi...

More evidence of the presidents fingerprints on pressure on the department of justice, which is supposed to be the independent law enforcement operation in this country. and it is a department of justice that found no fraud during this transition period. but despite that trump just kept pushing. >> laura, according to the senate report here, this is on january 3rd, the then president said to the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, "one thing we know is you, rosen, arent going to do anything ...

Pushing. >> laura, according to the senate report here, this is on january 3rd, the then president said to the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, "one thing we know is you, rosen, arent going to do anything to overturn the election. and then he threatened to fire rosen. it wasnt even subtle. could there be criminal charges here? >> there should be an exploration of them. rec, as youre talking about, as bob was speaking, this is supposed to be an apolitical entity. of course he would do noth...

Is totally unjustified. >> theres someone we learned about from some of the earlier investigative work of your committee, but i want to read from the "times" reporting about jeffery clark. the report fleshes out the role of jeffery clark, a little known justice department official who participated in multiple conversations with trump about how to upend the election and who pushed his superiors to send georgia officials a letter that falsely claimed the justice department had identified significa...

At a dramatic, three-hour oval office meeting on january 3rd, trump said he wanted to fire rosen and make clark acting attorney general. rosen told the committee trump said to him, quote, "one thing we know is you, rosen, arent going to do anything to overturn the election." at the meeting, trump was told that every senior doj official other than clark would resign if he went through with his plan. white house counsel pat cipollone said he would resign, too. and with that, trump reluctantly back...

Orchestrate a coup in the justice department, try to get trump to fire rosen. we know trump didnt do that, but it shows you how close things came in those crucial days. >> its -- it just -- everything, it grows more absurd by the day. cnn is learning that the january 6th select committee is deciding whether to go after call logs from the trump white house on the day of the riot. what will that tell them? >> theres a lot of things they can learn. one is what were the calls, who was calling whom a...

Was foreign interference that altered the vote totals, something that of course weve known. and he came away not convinced. he kept pushing this idea, and of course we know he helped try to orchestrate a coup at the justice department, trying to get trump to fire rosen. in the end, trump did not do that, but it shows you how close things came there in those crucial days. >> its -- it just -- everything -- it grows more absurd by the day. >> reporter: yeah. >> cnn is learning that the january 6th...

Intelligence was being hidden from and still continued to push this idea there might have been fraud and a couple days clark was at the white house where the president was trying to decide to fire rosen and replace him with clark. >> evan, thank you so much for that reporting. really kind of remarkable even still. "outfront" now democratic congressman adam schiff on the house select committee investigating january 6th and the chairman of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you...

Sessions. he is not going to fire rosen ste rosenstein or mueller. cnn reported the president openly fumed to lawyers that he should fire sessions. if he fired sessions because he wants to end the russian investigation could that be viewed as obstruction of justice? >> it could be. it depends on what he says and what his real motives are. don, one of the things he has to think about is how does he replace the attorney general? that is a position that has to be confirmed by the senate. that durin...