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hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. >> this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know hes thinking about you. he knows youre loyal and youre going to do the right thing when you go in f...

phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election. >> part of todays hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators yesterday. former justice department official named jeffrey clark. we are going to have more on that right in just a moment. the committees interest about clark has to do with the former presidents effort to install cl...

president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent a...

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] im 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 i...

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. im sorry. >> the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. >> the president is getting ver...

Entire department. every single ag will walk out on you. your entire department leadership will walk out within hours, and i dont know what happened after that. i dont know what the united states attorneys are going to do. we have u.s. attorneys in districts across the country, and my guess would be that many of them would have resigned. and that would then have led to regulations across the department in washington, and i said, mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, you could have hundreds and...

Would resign immediately. im not working one minute for this guy, who i had just declared was completely incompetent. and so the president immediately turned to mr. them -- and said, steve, you wouldnt resign, would you? and he said, absolutely, i would, mister president, you leave me no choice. and i said, you are not the only ones. no one cares if we resigned, if need steve and i go. but i will tell you what will, happen you will lose your entire department. every single ag will walk out here....

He said suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. im not working one minute for this guy, who i had just declared was completely incompetent. and so the president immediately turned to mr. them -- and said, steve, you wouldnt resign, would you? and he said, absolutely, i would, mister president, you leave me no choice. and i said, you are not the only ones. no one cares if we resigned, if ...

So, this was in line the president saying, well, i have to lose -- and along those lines, so, suppose i do this. suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. im not working one minute for this guy, who i had just declared was completely incompetent. and so the president immediately turned to mr. them -- and said, steve, you wouldnt resign, would you? and he said, absolutely, i would, mister president, you leave...

0 me or met with me virtually every day. >> the president, throughout all these meetings and telephone conversations, was 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 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. [inaudible] im sorry. >> the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is b...