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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20211012 20:43:00

Speech concluded? and the house select committee investigating january 6th wants phone records of several lawmakers, including perry. jeff clark. reporter: perry admitted introducing him to jeffrey clark to led the justice department civil division. he attempted a near coup of justice department leadership. jeffrey clark became donald trump s big lie lawyer. reporter: the same day trump told doj officials to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. stop the steal! reporter: trump dispatched perry to convince donahue the election had been stolen. perrydonahue. potus asked him to call. according to donahue, perry talked up clark effectively saying jeff clark is great. he s the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this. as for donahue s email saying, can i send you stuff? we ve got a lot of evidence. he sent a document of debunked ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20210810 02:04:00

Then acting head of the justice department civil division, to help trump subvert the election results. according to the times rosen told investigators clark quote admitted meeting with mr. trump and pledged that he would not do so again end quote. it never seems to be that simple for people in trump s orbit. the times reports clark quote continued to press colleagues to make statements about the election that they found to be untrue. jeffery rosen also told investigators that, quote, clark had been engaging in unauthorized conversations with mr. trump about ways to have the justice department publicly cast doubt on president biden s victory. end quote. and to top it all off, jeffery clark, quote, drafted a letter that he asked mr. rosen to send to georgia state legislators wrongly asserting that they should void mr. biden s victory because the justice department was investigating accusations of voter fraud in the state. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Velshi 20210807 13:01:00

Msnbc or nbc news, jeffrey clark, the acting head of the justice department civil division at the time wrote emails that would have laid out a road map and given permission for georgia republicans to subvert the election results. the message intended to tell georgia election officials that the justice department was investigating, quote, irregularities in the presidential election and wanted state legislators to go into a special session, quote, pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors. that letter would have essentially allowed georgia republicans to go against the will of the voters there and award the state s electoral college votes to trump. and clarke didn t just draft letters like this to georgia. congressman rambling iaaf krish that murthy revealed this week to me that clarke drafted similar letters to send to all six states that the ex-president lied about being stolen from him georgia, arizona, pennsylvania, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Velshi 20210807 12:01:00

Been. more information revealing how hard he fought to subvert the will of the people and overturn the 2020 election results. reported by abc and not yet verified by msnbc or msnbc news, jeffrey clark, acting head of the justice department civil division at the time, wrote emails that essentially would have laid out a road map for georgia republicans to overturn the will of the state s voters. clark s message intend to tell georgia election officials that the department of justice was investigating, quote, irregularities in the presidential election and wanted state legislators to go into a special session, quote, pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors. that means georgia officials would have received a letter from the doj, on doj letterhead, essentially telling them something was wrong with the way their election was conducted and they should, instead, appoint their own electors, who would back trump leading to a false ....

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