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To apply the law without the president's political self-interests tainting its actions or dictating how it uses its authorities. president trump did find one candidate justice that seemed willing to do anything to help him stay in power. let's hear what president trump's own lawyer, eric hirschman had to say about jeff clark's plan to overturn the election. this video contains strong language. >> when he finished discussing what he planned on doing, i said good [bleep], congratulations. you just said your first act as attorney yeah is committing a felony. you're clearly a candidate for this jo...

But it did escalate over time until ultimately the meeting on january 3, which was the most extreme of the meetings and conversations. >> i want to make sure that we don't gloss this over. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to us. the president wanted the top justice department officials to declare that the election was corrupt even though as he knew there was absolutely no evidence to support that statement. the president didn't care about actually investigating the facts. he just wanted the department of justice to put its stamp of approval on the lies. who was going to help him? jef...

Appointed to run the justice department after attorney general barr resigned. we'll hear from other senior justice department officials also. together these public servants resisted mr. trump's effort to misuse the justice department as part of his plan to hold on to power. we will show that trump's demands that the department investigate baseless claims of election fraud continued into january 2021. donald trump didn't just want the justice department to investigate. he wanted the justice department to help legitimize his lies. to basically call the election corrupt. to appoint a special coun...

That i thought were that significant, that would compromise my ability to serve as attorney general in the way that i have described that as the people's lawyer, i would not hesitate to resign. >> as you and i decussed to propose to undertake a course of conduct that was in violation of the constitution that would present me with a difficult but not a complex problem. i would have two choices. i could talk him out of it or leave. those are the choices. >> the attorney general's position as a cabinet member is unique from all of the cabinet members. yes, a member of the president's cabinet, but...

That more than 200,000 votes were certified in the state of pennsylvania that were not actually cast. sometimes the president would say 205, sometimes 250. i had not heard this before. i wanted to get the allegation down clearly so that we could look into it if appropriate. that's why i started taking those notes. as the conversation continued, i continued to take the notes. >> let's take a look at the notes, if we could right now. as we can see, you quote. trump asking where is doj just like we heard him say in his first television interview. how did you respond to that? >> so both the acting...