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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] i'm 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,...

Attorney general bill barr resigns, he already testified in the committee, the reason he resigned was because donald trump was relentlessly pushing these election fraud lies. everyone else at doj bumps up a notch. jeffrey rosen becomes acting ag, a trump nominee richard donohue becomes the number two guy and an obscure attorney named jeffrey clark takes over the civil division. we will hear from rosen and donohue life today. they investigated these claims of election fraud and found nothing. mark meadows would bombard these guys with emails asking them to look into ridiculous theories. at one ...

It was incumbent upon me to make it very clear to the president what our investigations had revealed. and that we had concluded, based on actual investigations, actual witness interviews, actual reviews of documents, that these allegations simply had no merit. i want to try to cut through the noise because it was clear to us there were a lot of people whispering in his ear, feeding him these conspiracy theories and allegations. i felt thing very blunt in the conversation might help make it clear to the president that these aggregations are simply not true. as he went through them, for 90 minut...

200,000 votes were certified in the state of pennsylvania that were not cast. sometimes, the president would say it was 205, 250, but i hadn't heard this before. i wanted to get the allegation down clearly so he could look into it if appropriate. that is why started taking notes. as a conversation continued, i would continue to take notes. >> let's look at the notes. as we can see on the screen, you actually "asking where is doj?" 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 depar...

Bearing down on how exactly trump knew he actually lost. then there will be evidence going inside the doj about what would have been the mother of all saturday massacres, as trump tried to oust the acting ag, resisting efforts to have the doj help with the coup three former officials will testify. on thursday, the committee will focus on efforts to pressure pence. you all remember that. a differing school feature evidence on trump's efforts to overturn the election through state level means. representative kinzinger, the other republican member beside cheney, says the evidence together at thes...