ranking justice department lawyer named jeffrey clark seemed to entertain trump's requests. pushing internally to have the justice department assert that fraud in the state of georgia was the cause for that states lawmakers. was caused, excuse me, four that states lawmakers to disregard georgia's election results and appoints new presidential electors. trump contemplated installing jeff clark as attorney general. he was then running both the environment and national resources division and also the civil division of the justice department. and he, unlike others in the justice department, was more sympathetic to trump's claims of election fraud. jeff clark became particularly focused on georgia, trying to persuade justice department leaders that they should issue a letter that argued the georges elections were affected by fraud, and that -- as a consequence -- it's lawmakers should disregard the result, and appoint their own electors. meaning, have the republicans at the state pick trump