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President of the united states decided to put full-court pressure on the new acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen. he was really pushing the department of justice to bend to his political will. and i will tell you, i just don't think i'm overstating the case, we were a half step away from a full-blown constitutional crisis. >> elie, i don't want to do literary criticism, but we did write down what he said and you talked about trying to shake the tree so people understand what we're up against, what happened last time, violence at the capitol, the military worried about the abuse of the nucle...

Committee to issue the subpoenas and react to witnesses and whether they comply. i won't presume the outcome of that. i'll let them take care of that. >> let's return to are your report which is rather stunning and lays out some very upsetting claims made by former trump officials including acting attorney general jeffery rosen. is anything in here that was done by president trump or doj official jeffery clark or anyone else actually a violation of a law? >> i can't tell you whether it is a specific law that was violated but i can tell you this for sure. we were a half step away from a constit...

Because, frankly, that's what would happen to any american. there darn well should be consequences for the president and his top enablers. >> reporter: the committee firing off another round of subpoenas today aimed at ali alexander. the democrat-led senate judiciary committee releasing its 400 page report delving into trump's pressure campaign on the justice department to overturn the 2020 presidential election. >> we were a half step away from a constitutional crisis, a full blown constitutional crisis. >> reporter: the report reveals trump directly asked the justice department nine times to...

And the far-right on the couch. the caption, is president biden was side by side with president obama in 2011. he knows the dangerous games republicans try to play then and are playing now. david, having enjoyed seeing that picture of you today, can anyone actually win this fight over the debt limit? when you just take half step back and realize this has to do with a financial cliff, well the whole world is watching thanks for that wonderful memory, that was a debt ceiling summit from hell. and mitch mcconnell did not blink then. he won't bling. hear your question, there's no winners. all you'...

>> i'm a librarian, that's how i got into news librarianship, eventually reporting. so i'm a lover of books. and basically for the same reason that was just mentioned. and it's because it opens a whole world to you. i grew up in a small town in florida. i didn't see many representations of lgbtq people. it was a fairly white, middle-class enclave. that was a place where you learned that there was a whole world outside of your tiny world. i want -- i have two sons. i want them to pick up books and see all of these different types of people represented so they can see themselves in it. so we can...