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insurrection. ♪ ♪ ♪ the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition -- the chair announces the committees approval to announce the -- good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of loca...

selection loss, was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rosen a draft letter that he wanted you to sign and send to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have grave constitutional consequences. can you tell us what you meant by that? >> i had to read both emails in the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it. i read it and i did ...

>> id like to yield to the gentlewoman from wyoming, vice chair cheney. >> thank you very much, mister kinzinger, and thank you gentlemen, for yielding. as we discussed earlier, at the center of mr. clarks plan to undo president trumps election laws was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark email to you and mr. grave constitutional consequences. mr. donahue, can you tell us what you meant by that? >> well, i had to read both the email and the attach letter twice to make sure that i ...

I actually went next door to the acting ags office, but he was not there. we were both on that email. we both had very similar reactions to it. i returned to my office. i sat down to draft a response. i thought it was very important to give a prompt response rejecting this out of hand. there were, in my response, i explained a number of reasons, this is not the departments role to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but more importantly, this was not b...

December 14th will be accepted by congress on january 6th. but, he has also learned that the relationship between doctor eastman and mr. klukowski persisted after mr. klukowski joined the justice department. lets take a look at an email recommending that mr. comfy and doctor eastman briefed vice president pence and his staff. are the recipients of this email included chief of staff to congressman louis gohmert, email says, a state of last week and believe the vice president and his staff would b...

>> given that, look at you kind of describe your relationship with the president? >> in connection with my role over the course of my tenure there, there were a number of instances of which folks at the white house would seek to bring me in to provide legal advice to the president, and sometimes discussing the legal options that could be pursued among to -- reach various policy objectives, sometimes to advise the president that a course of action that they had been discussing was not legally ava...

And other occasions. claim after claim, knocked down. but, the president didnt care. the next day, chief of staff mark meadows sent a flurry of emails to you, mr. rosen, asking that the department look into a new set of allegations. we are going to put those here on the screen. here, we see three request made on a january 1st. one email is a request from mr. meadows to you, mr. rosen, to send jeff clark to fulton county. what did you do with this request? >> well, really nothing. certainly it di...

Didnt seem to really appreciate it. >> what was mr. clarks reaction when you send this email to him? >> he didnt respond directly to the email, but we met shortly after, that after i sent the email. the acting ag returned. i went to his office. he had just read it. he had a very similar reaction to me. he was exasperated, and he told me that he had told one of his administrative assistance to get jeff clark up here. we want to talk to him face to face about this, so the three of us had a meeting...

Johnson who is the person in that video. what was your reaction to that request? >> so ordinarily, i would get an email like this, and there was no phone call. it would just come over to the transcript. this, one he called me, mr. meadows, and asked me to meet with mr. johnson. i told him, this whole thing about italy had been debunked, and that should be the end of that, and i certainly was not going to meet with this person. he initially seemed to accept that. he said, why wont you meet with h...

One else there around. and that meadows email, which appears to contemplate the possibility of counterprotesters. it appears to contemplate other people being there. we know from a lot of testimony of folks who havent been indicted. fears they would clash with antifa. that never happens. you laid out a theory there was an anticipation that would happen and actually those clashes were part of what they conceived of as an important part of what they wanted to happen that day. >> the mark meadows e...