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Became incredibly close to being appointed acting ag, so close that he was named acting ag in a white house call log by donald trump. it was revealed that the justice department searched clark's home and seized his phone back in june looking for evidence of three potential crimes, making false statements, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. today is also the deadline set by the justice department for judge eileen cannon to rule on the request that investigators gain access to those 100 classified documents that were seized in the search of donald trump's private residence and golf club. do...

Meeting and you are strong reaction to the letter, did mr. clark continue to push his concept in the coming days? >> he did, yes. we had subsequent meetings and conversations. the acting ag probably had more contact with him than i did. but between the 28 and the second one we had another in-person meeting, he clearly continued to move down this path. he began calling witnesses and apparently conducting investigations of his own. he got a briefing from dni about reported foreign intelligence interference. and, we thought perhaps once it was explained to him that there was no basis for that par...

I actually went next door to the acting ag's office, but he was not there. we were both on that email. we both had very similar reactions to it. i returned to my office. i sat down to draft a response. i thought it was very important to give a prompt response rejecting this out of hand. there were, in my response, i explained a number of reasons, this is not the department's role to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but more importantly, this was not based on facts. that was actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department of investig...

Simply not true. makeso, as he went through them, and one for me was a 90 minute conversation or so, for the former acting ag was a two-hour conversation, as the president went through them, i went piece by piece to say, no, that is false. that is not true. and, to correct him, really, in this serial fashion, as he moved from one theory to another. >> can you give me an example of one or two of those theories? >> so, at one that was very clear at that point was the interim county, the report that i mentioned earlier, the security operations group released this report that said 68% error rate. ...

See trump on the screen asking, where is doj, just like we heard in that first television interview. how did you respond to that? >> so, both the acting ag and i tried to explain to the president on this occasion and on several other occasions that the justice department has a very important, very specific, but very limited role in these elections. states run their elections. we are not quality controlled for the states. we are obviously interested in, and have a mission that pertains to criminal conduct in relation to federal elections. we also have related several rights responsibilities so ...