today. you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchange former acting attorney general jeff rosen described in talking to trump during that time. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the location. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly, and said essentially that s not what i am asking you to do. what i am just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. reporter: and when it
all the information having to do that clip. wolf blitzer picks up our coverage in the situation room. that s next. cnn s coverage of the january-6th hearings continues right now. i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. it was a day of truly powerful, very dramatic testimony. the select committee making the case that donald j. trump used his power to try to corrupt the u.s. justice department for his own personal-political benefit. his goal of overturning the 2020 presidential election and staying in office, no matter the cost to the country. let s go trait to cnn pamela brown on capitol hill. pamela, the justice department buzz under extraordinary pressure from the very top to declare the election was corrupt. but doj clearly redistincted. tell us more what we heard