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department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says it's going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when today's witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in today's hearing, congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, one of only two republicans on the panel. a...

Trump's justice department. these aren't rinos or liberal democrats. these aren't bureaucrats. trump appointed these people. >> when trump announced bill barr's resignation on twitter, he praised both of them. he said they were amazing, wonderful people. so, trump -- yes. trump elevated them and praised them. so why is jeffrey rosen the attorney general at this point? acting attorney general is his title but he's the top law enforcement. he's the attorney general because, as bill barr told the committee, i couldn't take it anymore. >> i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was st...

I had also been fired for cooperating and talking to the prosecutors. so, i -- i was sort of persona non grata at that point. they were out leaking bad information, anything they could to discredit me. >> bob, what do you think today the importance of today's testimony is? >> you know, over the years of doing this, for 50 years, i have known a dozen people who have been attorney general and it is in the legal community, and i think the political community, almost a holy office or as close as we get to that, and the expectations of that have frequently not been met. but there have been some peo...

On official department of justice letterhead, it would at falsely informed all americans, including those who may be inclined to why, that president trump let's go were likely very real. here is another observation about this letter. look at the signature line. it was written by jeff clark, not just for clark's signature but for witnesses today, jeff rosen and richard donoghue. when it became clear that neither mr. rosen or mr. donahue would sign this letter, president trump's plan necessarily change. as you will hear today, donald trump offered mr. clark the job of acting attorney general rep...

Board here. i can do this. 18 usc 610, coercion of political activity. it shall -- this is -- anybody who can read english can see it applies. f it shall be unlawful for any person to intimidate, threaten, command or coerce or attempt to intimidate, threaten, command or coerce any employee of the federal government to engage in or not engage in political activity. okay. let's break that down. threaten or coerce. we're going to hear testimony today that donald trump was talking about removing rosen, the acting attorney general, if he didn't send this letter out. that's point number one. that go...