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And you cannot avoid criminal intent by putting your head in the sand. that is a doctrine that they would apply in this case. its consciously avoiding knowing the actual evidence when you have every reason to understand it. >> and the level of craziness of some of these theories that came out yesterday, you know, manipulation of chinese thermostats, italy manipulating the voting machines over the internet from italy. i mean, just bonkers stuff that they were pushing. >> i now want to shift to wh...

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Clark if you do this. in the end, trump didnt do this. but clark was definitely ready to do this. he proprosed, written letters, proposed letters that were going to be sent to georgia and other states saying the justice department was investigating fraud. obviously they were looking into some of these claims but had found nothing to substantiate it. >> so the raid by authorities is -- do we know what they found? >> we dont know yet what they found. but this is something that happened yesterday. ...

Presidency. >> john, to bobs point, do you think these hearings are working? there is this raid that we learned about just now, yesterday, of -- at clarks house. >> i think the hearings are working much better than the watergate hearings. we forget how protracted the watergate hearings were. they were seven months. i didnt testify for a few hours. i testified for five days, eight hours a day. they were grinding on, those hearings. so, yes, these are very effective. theyve presented the case to t...

Budget official has tweeted that it was a pre-dawn raid where he was in the streets in his pajamas and they took his electric devices. and with jeffrey clark, he was this unassuming attorney. when he became embroiled in this, people inside the administration couldnt believe it. he wasnt somebody like a matt whitaker who was always in trumps ear or trying to insert himself. they were surprised when they heard about this. but remember, he was involved in this effort to draft this letter to send to...

Not allow the transition of power. this is a conspiracy. what we saw today, the raid taken on the justice department official, clark, that is evidence, again, the justice department is putting this together just as this committee has and the cover-up. it doesnt mean that trump is going to be indicted. but what we do know, factually, is the justice department has the evidence of this massive conspiracy and cover-up. >> i also want to play this sound from then vice president pence. this was, i bel...

Role of being partisan. with the general election ahead of them. the doj has the problem of trying to get enough in and done before they have to stop, because theyre so close to an election. there is protocol that says we cant muddy our hands because it might persuade the electors. >> to chriss point, i dont think you can interpret the lack of visible action until now to mean that there was nothing happening. i think certainly ive heard over the period of months that there was some kind of inves...

Make the case to a judge that there was some risk that simply asking him for the information there could be destrudestructio evidence and so on. thats the reason. thats the way you get to this extraordinary step that youd have a raid by federal agents on a former top justice department official. again, somebody who was at the center of this effort by the former president to sort of use the justice department to kind of find a way to remain in power. i should say the attorney office in washington...

The department of justice was not turned into the personal legal team of the trump campaign. so the fact clark is now having to deal with this with federal authorities at his home, this is going to be incredibly interesting to continue to watch and also its going to be so pertinent as we think about what lawmakers might be asking these department of justice officials today as we learn more about the pressure campaign that president trump had on the doj. >> frank, we have you with us now im told....

Hes at the center for renewing america saying yesterday more than a dozen doj law enforcement officials searched jeff clarks house in a predawn raid, put him in the streets and took his electronic devices because jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud. this is not america, folks. theres a different portrayal of jeff clark and his role and not just looking at voter fraud but maybe trying to change the direction of what the doj was doing sat that moment. >> neil: you know, andy, i hope you can he...