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House committee's probe of former president trump's pressure campaign on the justice department in those final weeks in office. specifically politico's reporting that the house overscythe committee dropped two planned interviews with trump's former acting a.g. jeffrey rosen, and rosen nfs number two, richard donohue, passing those interviews instead to the january 6th committee. rosen and donohue are of particular interest right now because of two developments. first the revelation the president called the acting a.g. almost daily. and second the proof that backs up those revelations, notes, c...

Angry, infuriated that the president of the united states tried to overthrow an election by using the department of justice, the very agency that is responsible for enforcing the law. >> reporter: according to the notes, the acting a.g. pushed back, saying, "the d.o.j. can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election." the revelations about mr. trump's pressure campaign come as the house committee investigating the january 6 attack is preparing to call new witnesses, possibly some from the trump administration. will there be dozens of subpoenas? >> there will be quite a ...

Their responses? >> yeah, look, i think doj absolutely did the right thing here, donahue and jeffrey rosen, who was the acting a.g. at the time. this is why people like me often say doj needs to be independent of the president, because if doj, in fact, did whatever the president told it to do, which bill barr and other attorneys general have taken that position, then there would have been no safeguard here, but because doj is independent, and rosen and donahue stood up for that, we did have a safety barrier in place to prevent sort of the worst case scenario here. >> wouldn't it have helped if...

"washington post" trump was, quote, absolutely obsessed in his phone calls with acting a.g. jeffrey rosen. rosen who was put in place of william barr who stepped down tried repeatedly to change the subject. on monday, the justice department ordered rosen to turn over any information he may have had regarding the turnover of the 2020 election. they're filing a motion to block the records from becoming public. a new executive order looks to combat the rising number of cyber attacks targeting america's infrastructure. president biden signed the order yesterday. it requires companies to meet a s...

Insanity isn't actually a thing of the past. former president trump and his allies are still pushing this nonsense. >> good morning, stephanie. the picture painted by these newly released documents is one of a president and his supporters trying everything they could to get the justice department to launch an investigation into their bogus claims of election fraud, an investigation they could then have cited as a way to delay or stop the transfer of power to a duly elected joe biden. the good news is that it didn't work. emails and other public records show attorney general bill barr and actin...