, the president, and top doj lawyers. >> geoff clark was proposing that jeff rosen be replaced by geoff clark. and i thought the proposal was asinine. >> reporter: officials told trump he would do what the president was demanding and find real voter fraud. >> so, i said, mr. president, you're talking about putting a man in that seat who has never tried a criminal case, who has never conducted a criminal investigation. it's impossible, it's absurd, it's not going to happen and it's going to fail. >> reporter: trump then asked this question. >> he said, so, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, geoff clark, what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i'm not working one minute for this guy. you're going to lose your entire department leadership. every single a.g. will walk out. >> reporter: ultimately, the threat of mass resignations worked. the president decided not to name geoff clark the acting attorney general. trump's pressure campaign on the justice department did not let up. after the horror of january 6th, a number of republi

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it is quite a cast of characters we have here but can you tell us a bit more about geoff clark? that was a damning assessment of his capabilities and qualifications. capabilities and aualifications. , ~ capabilities and aualifications. , ,, ., qualifications. yes, i think to make sense _ qualifications. yes, i think to make sense of _ qualifications. yes, i think to make sense of that - qualifications. yes, i think to | make sense of that exchange qualifications. yes, i think to - make sense of that exchange you have to understand what the basic scope of the hearing was today. essentially it was about this. in the period after the election and before january six, donald trump put incredible pressure on lots of folks including thejustice department and the pressure that he put on thejustice department was he over and over and over again asked the justice department to investigate various unfounded claims about election fraud and over and over again thejustice over and over again the justice department over and over again thejustice department did so and came back to him over and

he offered geoff clark an environmental lawyer, the job of acting attorney general. he wanted mr clark to take a number of steps, including sending this letter to georgia and five other states thank the us department ofjustice had," identified significant consent that may have impacted the outcome of the elections". this letter is a lie. the department ofjustice had in fact repeatedly told president trump exactly the opposite, that they had investigated and found no credible fraud that could impact the outcome of the election. this letter and others like it would have urged multiple states to withdraw that official and lawful electoral votes from joe biden. acting attorney general richard donoghue described the letter this way," this would be a grave step for the department to take and could have... " the committee agrees with mr donohue's assessment. had he assumed the role of attorney general, mr clark could indeed have been grave. he also said this about the plan... i recalled toward the end saying that what you are proposing is... nothing more than them meddling

. >> one of my favorite lines i am looking forward to tomorrow, the idea that geoff ry clark, this environmental lawyer at d.o.j., basically a civil lawyer and no criminal experience and the thing to get him in charge of the justice department and that's what trump wanted to do and toss the leadership of the justice department to try to get his way and apparently there is this quote and this moment, you know, because geoff ry clark was this environmental lower, go back to your office and we will call you when there is an oil spill and i think that is one of quotes that will be pretty interesting tomorrow. but it is a pretty serious matter, and we've had the leadership of the justice department, these are all trump officials, ready and willing to quit their jobs, and stand down, if trump was to do something like this, and everybody would just quit, and that's really what stopped this from moving forward, because what trump wanted him to do was sort of release the letter, have a press conference and say there's fraud and continue to add to the bogus, these bogus claims that the campaign was making

he offered geoff clark, an environmental lawyer at the justice department, the job of acting attorney general. president trump wanted mr. clark to take a number of steps, including sending this letter to georgia and five other states, saying the u.s. department of justice had, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election. this letter is a lie. the department of justice had, in fact, repeatedly told president trump exactly the opposite. that they had investigated his stolen election allegations and found no credible fraud that could impact the outcome of the election. this letter and others like it would have urged multiple states to withdraw their official and lawful electoral votes for biden. acting deputy attorney general richard donahue described jeff clark's letter this way. quote, this would be a grave step for the department to take and could have tremendous constitutional, political, and social ramifications for this country. the committee agrees with his assessment. had clark assumed the role of attorney general in the days before j

he got dropped into the justice department, drop specifically into geoff clark's office. eastman's guy. and eastman's cockamamie legal theories then get included in this letter, that the justice department is going to send out to overthrow the election in all the swing states that trump lost. eastman and trump's theory, thereby appears to emerge organically from inside the justice department, that they engineered it, by putting eastman's guy at the justice department at the very last moment. we did not know about that before today, unless i am mistaken? >> no. >> and everyone involved in that has to be worried about this raid that jeffrey clark has now suffered at his home with the fbi running around in his package pajamas. that has a way of focusing the mind. and they all have to think, is jeff going to protect me in this situation? the pressure on jeff tonight -- is he going to -- and klukowski, -- how will it shift going to protect me at this point? all he knows how to do one at the question, jeffrey clark, is give the fifth amendment. that's the only answer he knows h