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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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separated it out, who had broken away from george iii and declared him to be a tyrant, there was no way that they would have put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the united states. jake tapper: but president trump now saw vice president pence as the man who could keep him in the white house for four more years. pete aguiler: on december 23rd, president trump retweeted a memo from an individual named ivan raiklin entitled operation pence card. that called on the vice president to refuse the electoral college votes from certain states that had certified joe biden as the winner. evan perez: he had been pressuring him behind the scenes. so now he's going public. he's trying to get public pressure on mike pence. jake tapper: the january 6 committee's interviews with white house attorneys made it clear that pat cipollone,

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FOX and Friends Sunday

connecticut and new york, they have over a foot there. so we'll have to wait and see if we can catch up with them near new hampshire. >> thank you, katie. >> thank you, katie. rachel: turning to your headlines, starting with this. two people are dead and nine are hurt after a 25 car pileup west of bakersfield, california yesterday. the crash on interstate 5 happening during a stretch of heavy fog. fire officials saying visibility was as low as 10 feet. parts of the interstate were closed throughout the night. no word on when it will reopen. the democratic national committee is calling out new hampshire democrats, state democrats choosing delegates for the state's unsanctioned democratic presidential primary on december 23rd when the dnc chose south carolina as the site of the first primary next month. the dnc leaders saying, quote, the upcoming primary is detrimental and meaningless. the n new hampshire democratic party and presidential p

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

exactly defense secretary lloyd austin ended up in the hospital on new year's day. he had an elective medical procedure on december 22nd. he then after that procedure went home on december 23rd but on january 1st he started experiencing severe pain and was transported by hospital to walter reed medical center. ryder said in a statement that he, quote, was placed in the hospital intensive care unit to ensure immediate access due to his medical needs but then remained in that location in part due to hospital space considerations and privacy reasons. they did not give other expla nal nations for what those privacy reasons were. it gives us a look into the picture of when defense secretary lloyd austin arrived in the hospital. he was on a call with president biden who was in the virgin islands on vacation. they had met with the national

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so that people can understand this, when people come into the united states, it is impossible to vet them if they are from countries like syria, like afghanistan, like china. why? because those governments do not cooperate with us. when you look at a city like chicago, a microcosm of what we are seeing across the united states, it is the people of chicago that are going to be paying the price. look, the residents told me, we don't know who these people are. they are smoking pot, committing crimes. there was a venezuelan migrant in front of the shelter near gauge park that on december 23rd lost his life when he was targeted. our intelligence agencies are looking into more and more. >> sean: a huge burden

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Inside Politics With Dana Bash

getting cross ways with donald trump. >> but their chances of getting the senate are loer with trump as the normal knee. the interesting thing is trump in the nomination contest gets the benefit of being the establishment candidate and being the pop list insurgent. that's one of the reasons it's so hard to overcome him. >> wow, that's pretty tough to do, but i never thought of it that way. another thing that really caught our attention is something that is brewing inside donald trump's orbit. that is after some reporting by kristen holmes about trump just kind of waxing about who his vp pick would be, assuming that he is the nominee. and mentioning nikki haley's name, and the pushback from people extremely close to him, including donald trump and steve bannon going after nikki haley. there's donald trump jr. his tweet on december 23rd, let me be clear.

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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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tyrant, there was no way that they would have put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the united states. >> but president trump now saw vice president pence as the man who could keep him in the white house for four more years . >> on december 23rd, president trump retweeted a memo from an individual named ivan raichlen, entitled, operation pence card. they called the vice president to refuse electoral college votes from certain states that it certified joe biden as the winner what he had been pressuring him behind the scenes. so now, he is going public. he is trying to get public pressure on mike pence. >> the january 6 committee interviews with white house attorneys made it clear that pat cipollone, eric herschmann, and many others were appalled.

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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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characterized would be tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. >> there's just no way that the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george iii and declared him to be a tyrant, there was no way that they would have put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the united states. >> but president trump now saw vice president pence as the man who could keep him in the white house for four more years. >> on december 23rd president trump retweeted a memo from an individual named ivan likeland entitled operation pence card.

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