was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman". richard donoghue: that was an exact quote from the president. it indicated that he had some political avenue he wanted to pursue with the congress, but by him telling us that we should say publicly that it was corrupt, that concerned me. adam kizinger: what he intended was for the department of justice to say we have indications that there was corruption because from there, you can take that seed of doubt and donald trump and republican members of congress can water it, they can grow that doubt and then through there, you could do things get people to vote against certification on january 6th. jake tapper: as long as rosen and donoghue were in charge, they told the president they would not publicly back his false election fraud claims, so trump had to find someone who would help him do what he wanted to steal the election. richard donoghue: jeff clark's name had come up on december 27th in the phone call with the president. he brought it up and said, look, people are telling me i should