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insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice d ....
selection loss, was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rosen a draft letter that he wanted you to sign and send to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have grave constitutional consequences. can you tell us what you meant by that? i had to read both emails in the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it. i read it and i did understand it for what he intended. and i had to sit down and serve , compose what that was an appropriate response. i went next door to the acting ig s office. he was not there. we both had an email. he was not in his offers. i returned my office. . this is not the departments role. to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but, more importantly, this was not based on fact. this is actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department inves ....
i d like to yield to the gentlewoman from wyoming, vice chair cheney. thank you very much, mister kinzinger, and thank you gentlemen, for yielding. as we discussed earlier, at the center of mr. clark s plan to undo president trump s election laws was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark email to you and mr. grave constitutional consequences. mr. donahue, can you tell us what you meant by that? well, i had to read both the email and the attach letter twice to make sure that i really understood what he was proposing because it was so extreme to me. i had a hard time getting my head around it initially, but i read it, and i did understand it for what he intended, and i had to sit down and, sort of, compose what i thought was an improper response. ....
I actually went next door to the acting ag s office, but he was not there. we were both on that email. we both had very similar reactions to it. i returned to my office. i sat down to draft a response. i thought it was very important to give a prompt response rejecting this out of hand. there were, in my response, i explained a number of reasons, this is not the department s role to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but more importantly, this was not based on facts. that was actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department of investigations over the last several weeks or months. so, i responded to that, and for the department to insert itself into the political process this way,,, i think would ve had agreed consequences for the country. it may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis, and i wanted to make sure that he understood the gravity of the situation, because he ....
December 14th will be accepted by congress on january 6th. but, he has also learned that the relationship between doctor eastman and mr. klukowski persisted after mr. klukowski joined the justice department. let s take a look at an email recommending that mr. comfy and doctor eastman briefed vice president pence and his staff. are the recipients of this email included chief of staff to congressman louis gohmert, email says, a state of last week and believe the vice president and his staff would benefit greatly from a briefing by john and can. as i also mention i don t want to it over expose can given his new position. this email suggests that mr. klukowski was simultaneously working with jeffrey clark to draft the proposed letter to georgia officials to overturn their certified election. and working with doctor eastman to help pressure the vice president to overturn election. ....