republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gates and mr. brooks mr. gates was the first to ask for a pardon. [inaudible] i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought that it was [inaudible] how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace with [inaudible] jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. stephanie ruhle, all here for our special primetime recap of the fifth day of the january 6th hearings. good evening from msnbc headquarters, i m rachel. i am joined here by my beloved colleagues lawrence o donnell, nicole wallace, joy reid, ari melber. and if that s
adamant that he had one and that we were not doing our job. the president said, just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and well. republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gaetz and mr. brooks mr. gaetz was the first to ask for a pardon. mr. biggs did, mr. gohmert asked as well. i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought the puzzle was asinine. how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. but so baloney said this is a murder suicide pact. tonight rachel maddow, nic
new names of republican lawmakers who allegedly asked trump for pardons, plus learning from the film maker who turned over hours of footage of the president and his family to the january 6th committee. what did he tell investigators today? and a major decision from the supreme court on guns. critics say it s adding fuel to the fire when it comes to gun violence in america. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. it s a quote, a brazen statement from then-president trump after he had been told that every single allegation of mass fraud was faulse, every one. his response, say it was corrupt, leave the rest to me, a quote the deputy general richard donohue told today that trump told him on december 27th, 2020. you also noted mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he respon
because if any of them had been pardoned, they could turn around the next day and the asked to testify against trump, and if they were, they can t plead the fifth, which jeffrey clark did 105 times. so, did former president trump not pardon them because it would hurt him? that s the question i have. and given that he pardoned roger stone and steve bannon and others, the self-interest seems to be a big issue here michael flynn, putin, making things better for paul manafort. but this would touch him, this would hurt him. all this talk about blanket pardons, this isn t bed, bath and beyond. you can t just say you get a pardon for everyone of our all-time, and wrap yourself in it. the nixon example is interesting, that the former lawyer for the white house mention. because you have to write it down. you point, if you start writing down what s your pardoning, obstructing of a proceeding, a plan inside the government to do selective prosecution, as we were discussing earlier, to abus
justice department seem to head. we got all this new information this week, about the fake elector scheme. we got right away the fbi serving subpoenas on people involved in the fake elector scheme. we now know, that all these revelations today about jeffrey clark. we ve got fbi or at least federal investigators showing up at jeffrey clark s house and search in his house yesterday. the interplay between the criminal the active criminal investigations hearing with the committee is turning out has never been more acute and interesting that it was today. we are going to talk about that next, along with january 6th investigator congressman jamie raskin joining us live. we ve got a lot of stuff to get. to stay with us. did you discuss this graph letter with the president of the united states? executive privilege, again, just restate it for the abundance of caution. okay, if you look again, for the draft letter, and the first paragraph, second sentence the department will update