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from donald trump. jeffrerey rosen: b between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department, in his view, had not done enough to investigate election fraud. jake tapper: but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump's wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose to not listen. on a december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, president trump said the department had an obligation to "tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election" despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman". richard donoghue: that was an exact quote from the president. it indicated that he had some political avenue he wanted

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from donald trump. jeffrey rosen: between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department, in his view, had not done enough to investigate election fraud. jake tapper: but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump's wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose to not listen. on a december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, president trump said the department had an obligation to "tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election" despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman". richard donoghue: that was an exact quote from the president.

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jake tapper: as the new targets of trump's ire, rosen and donoghue fielded near-daily complaints from donald trump. jeffrey rosen: between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department, in his view, had not done enough to investigate election fraud. jake tapper: but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump's wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose to not listen. on a december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, president trump said the department had an obligation to "tell people that this was an illegal corrupt election" despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly "just say the election

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fielded nearly daily complaints of donald trump. between december 23rd in genera 23rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department, in his view, had not done enough to investigate election fraud. >> but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump's wild election fraud lies, one by one. but president trump chose to not listen. on the december 27th phone call with rosen and donoghue, trump said the department had an obligation to, quote, tell people this was corrupt illegal election, despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed into publicly, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. >> that was an exact quote from

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attack by the sitting president of the united states, fighting to hold onto an election he falsely claimed had been stolen. >> trump thought the justice department was an arm of his presidency and a way for him to tell them what to do and they should do his bidding and what he wanted. >> as the new target of trump's ire, rosen and donohue fielded near daily complaints from donald trump. >> between december 23rd and january 3rd the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investigate election fraud. >> but they were investigating. the department of justice had been debunking trump's wild election fraud lies one by one, but president trump chose not to

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followed up on all of the fraud claims, and they quickly concluded that fraud did not take the election from donald trump. voters did. the news was told to trump's chief of staff at the white house, mark meadows, in mid to late november. >> i remember a call with mr. meadows, and i remember sharing with him that we weren't finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. >> during a meeting several weeks later, the president got the same message from his white house counsel, pat cipollone, and another white house lawyer, eric hirschman. >> eric and pat told the group, the president included, that none of those allegations had been substantiated to the point where they could be the basis for any litigation challenge to the election. >> it is statistically impossible that the person, me, that led the charge, lost. >> but donald trump continued to refuse to publicly accept defeat. >> the evidence of the fraud is

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>> a heated trump/barr meeting followed and barr got another opportunity to debunk the lies. among the claims he focused on were the ones about dominion voting machines. >> with the turn of a dial or the change of a chip, you can press a button for trump and the vote goes to biden. >> i told him that the stuff his people were shoveling out to the public was bullshit. i specifically raised the dominion voting machines, i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations. but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people. >> before the end of december, barr had quit. his replacement, acting attorney general jeffrey rosen, who came with a blunt yet low-key acting deputy attorney general named richard donohue. like barr, rosen and donohue took seriously and thoroughly investigated each of the fraud claims coming from then president trump. in late december, donohue spoke with the president and told him the truth about numerous false

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this election. frankly, we did win this election. >> trump may have been crying widespread fraud, but he had no proof. what the former president did have proof of, based on his own team's assessment of votes, is that he lost, a fact made clear by the january 6th committee, which exposed to the world so many trump aides, despite toeing the trump line in public -- >> are you expecting the president to concede? >> maria, that word's not even in our vocabulary right now. >> -- knew trump was going to lose legitimately and that he did lose legitimately. admissions they were forced to make under oath. >> i was in the oval office, and at some point in the conversation, matt askowski, who was the lead data person, was brought on. and i remember he delivered to the president pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose. >> trump campaign attorneys

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democracy, he will no longer be in the state legislature. >> i'm rusty bowers -- >> term limited in the state house, he ran in the republican primary for a state senate seat. >> i stood up to the radicals and kept my conservative campaign promises. >> my opponent was david farnsworth. >> david farnsworth is going to do the job. >> their positions on major issues nearly identical except for one. >> i believe the election was stolen. >> farnsworth bought into trump's election lies. bowers did not. >> arizona voters pick david farnsworth over -- >> i lost big. it is very possible that the bill that i assigned liberally to my committees will be back. the possibility of that getting a governor's signature would just be a disaster. i call it the possibility of going back into the dark ages in arizona.

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we were running out of options and getting nervous. it sounds like we came close to either service having to use lethal options or worse. >> when the secret service made the call to move the vice president again, rioters came within 40 feet of him. as he was held in an undisclosed location, president trump addressed the rioters. >> it was pence who was on the phone with these lawmakers, pence was on the phone with people in the pentagon about what was happening with the national guard. >> at 2:38 p.m. trump tweeted quote, please support our capitol police and law enforcement. they are truly on the side of our country. stay peaceful. by this point, rioters were in both chambers. >> this is our house. >> and the capitol rotunda was filled with tear gas.

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