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White house lawyers and department of justice officials as they argue back and forth about the merits of whether the justice department should intervene in georgia. rosen says over and over again, we have not found evidence to support these georgia claims, we re not finding this and we re not going to do it. other officials chime in and say, and, if you replace jeff rosen, we will resign en masse and any attention that would have once gone to your claims in georgia will be completely subsumed by the chaos that happens if we all resign. wow. we re also getting to georgia in a second, but you also write that even trump s lawyer pat cipollone advised against firing rosen. what do you know about trump s demeanor at the time? was the weight of all of these election certification results really bearing down on him? from the reporting that we have, former officials, they say again and again that this was an ....
Appreciate it. well, tonight, newly released documents show that former president trump pressured his acting attorney general to call the 2020 election results corrupt. and there s also a new ruling today from the justice department on trump s long- hidden tax returns. we get the latest now from cbs kris van cleave. reporter: more than a month after losing the 2020 election, then-president donald trump called the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, telling him, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. adding, we have an obligation to tell people this was anob illegal corrupt election. that s according to handwritten notes from rosen s deputy, richard donoghue, who was also on the call. the notes were released today by the house oversight committee. mr. trump also hinted at firing rosen and replacing him with an official supportive of his big lie. people tell me jeff clark is great. i should put him in. people want me to replace d.o.j. leadership. how egr ....
Actually came when trump seriously contemplated firing rosen and replacing him with another doj lawyer more sympathetic to the election claims. it was made clear to the president that top doj lawyers would resign en masse if that happened and trump backed off. one official summed it up this way. it sounds like rosen and the cause of justice won, steph. another attorney who was more sympathetic to trump s agenda or more willing to push this extraordinary lie. harry, what s your reaction to all this? yeah, so and by the way, trump was going to install him as attorney general and let everything roll from there. you re getting it from me but from all doj alum this kind of mind-boggling reaction. this really does both sort of encapsulate everything that went on in the last four years and take it a step further. a direct communication from the president to the department, impossible, can t be. actually about a pending case, ....