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Committee is investigating. this preliminary report tells us a lot of alarming things we did not know before about how the justice department ended up right in the middle of all of this stuff. some ways unwitting and some ways witting. some of what emerges really is just remarkable. this guy jeff clark, who was given b.j. pak's cellphone number and he was saying who's going to call me? why is he going to call me? jeffrey clark, unknown justice department official. he was the head of the environmental division. they made him acting head of the civil division for a short time. we now know in det...

Federal prosecutors around the country, use the resources of your office to chase this down. it's not the way the u.s. justice department is supposed to work. now that we know the justice department did work that way under trump, what's the justice department going to do about it? what is the justice department doing with this new knowledge that its senior officials, up to the highest levels of the department, attorney general, deputy attorney general, they tried to use the department. once you at a senior level use the powers of that department for that purpose, it can't be that you just get ...

U.s. attorneys in michigan and pennsylvania. he as the deputy attorney general of the united states justice department told u.s. attorneys in michigan and pennsylvania that they should use justice department resources to go check that out. to try to substantiate these nonsense claims that were coming from the white house. to be clear, these claims about voter fraud in michigan and pennsylvania, these didn't bubble up from local law enforcement efforts in michigan and pennsylvania and that's how they got to the u.s. attorney's office there. no. these u.s. attorneys got calls from main justice i...

Were ridiculous allegations to pursue them beyond the point where they were credible begins to take you outside of the scope of the protection of doing legitimate law enforcement investigations. in any event, there are a lot of dealt of justice policies about what you do when, when you are closing in on an investigation, when you are in that sensitive period around the elections and around the count. i suspect they were sloppy about this. there's the rules we have talked about before about contacts between the department of justice and the white house. it appears a lot of this may well have be...

Benner who has been crushing this story since before day one. thank you, again, for making time to be here and understanding this reporting. it remains one of the most amazing stories of our time. >> thanks for having me. >> in terms of this interim report by the judiciary committee, what materials they want access to, what they still want to get? >> from what i know about baseball, i would say we're in the third or fourth inning. they want to speak with jeff clark, for example, who is somebody who has not responded to any of their requests. as you can see from this report, we have a full pict...