clark said her job is to end page. many in her role, clark is enthusiastic purveyor of what she claims to fight. clerk has been on the show several times. the new investigation by our reporters has uncovered shocking, and we don't use that word lightly, legitimately shocking statements clark made at harvard. in 1994, clark wrote a letter to crimson and capacity of the black studies association. clark wanted to explain use on race science "please use the following series and observation to assist you in your search for truth with regarding genetic differences between blacks and whites." you know what will be interesting and it was "one, dr. richard king reveals the core of the human brain is the structure that is black because it contains large amounts of neural melon which is essential for its operation. to cope black infants sit, crawl, walk walk sooner than wh. three, carol barnes notes human mental processes controlled by the same chemical that gives black superior, physical and mental abilities. four, some scientis

top doj officials told clark he was wrong and rejected clark's request that doj hold a press conference, announcing an investigation into voter fraud, according to the times. clark then met with trump the weekend of january 2nd. and after the meeting, clark informed rosen trump was going to fire the acting attorney general and clark would take over, according to the times. clark denied calculating a plan to oust rosen to "the times" and said his conversations with the president were above board. "all of my official communications were consistent with law." there was a candid discussion of options and pros and cons with the president. it is unfortunate that those who were part of a privileged legal conversation would comment in public, while also distorting any discussions. but before rosen could even react to what was unraveling, clark's demands and his reported claims that the president would soon fire rosen, a tape of trump's pressure campaign on georgia's secretary of state got out. >> so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we hav

clark and astonishing, too, for mr. to his boss, mr. rosen, he was trying to undermine mr. rosen and the entire department of justice to facilitate the president's desperate bid to hold on to power in the closing days of his administration. >> david laufman, former counterintelligence chief at the justice department. thank you for joining us on this story and on short notice. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel. >>> again, we are learning tonight about the timing, the schedule for the president's senate impeachment trial. it looks like that will be conveyed on monday and the trial will start on february 9th. it was just reported in "the new york times" tonight may affect perceptions of the president's culpability for what happened here and how that impeachment trial goes forward. we will be right back. stay with us. we will be right back. stay with us oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board... and you have t

clark and mr.en there before him to present their competing visions for what the department should be doing. it was described by two different officials, former administration officials, as almost a bizarre version of the "the apprentice" in which they were -- which one had a better plan. >> so what -- it sounds to me from reading your article that enough people at doj get read into this plan that they essentially rebel en masse and threaten to all quit if it's pulled off, is that right? >> we'll go through the chronology. midday sunday, jeff clark says to the attorney general -- acting attorney general rosen, i believe that the president is going to remove you and put me in your spot. and then a few hours later, mr. rosen's deputy, the deputy attorney general calls an emergency conference call with the remaining top leaders of the department. he reads them into what's going on. he explains what mr. clark has been up to and they discuss what they're going to do if in the coming hours the president

rosen and replace him instead with jeffrey clark.artment officials convened on a conference call and asked each other what will you do if he was dismissed? the answer was unanimous. they would resign. their informal pact ultimately helped persuade president trump to keep mr. rosen in place calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the justice department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. president trump's decision came only after mr. rosen and jeffrey clark made their competing cases to the president in a bizarre white house meeting that two officials compared with an episode of trump's reality show "the apprentice," albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis. again, katie benner is the sole byline, the reporter behind this stunning. acting attorney general jeffrey rosen was under extreme pressure from president trump to declare that he had found something that would justify overturning the results of the election. back to her report. quote, when president trump said on december

clark will do., though, that the actions that he took, he took because he truly believed that they were the correct thing to do. and that his actions will be guided by the fact that he does believe that what he did was correct. he's one of, i will say, not a small number of people both in the republican party and who worked in the federal government who had their own serious issues about the election but what made mr. clark interesting or unusual, he worked at the justice department. top officials in the fbi -- they found fraud but not enough to impact the election. even in the position he was in, in that perch, with all the information at his disposal, with colleagues he respected telling him this, he still did not believe it. >> katie benner, thank you once again for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, house impeachment managers delivered the article of impeachment to the senate tonight in that solemn procession across the rotunda. one of those house imp

to fire the acting attorney general and clark would take over.ounced a plan to add rosen to the "time's" and says the conversations with the president were above board. all my official communications were consistent with law. there was a candid discussion of options and pros and cons for the president. it is unfortunate that those who were a part of a privileged legal conversation would comment in public while also distorting any discussions. but before rosen could even react to what was unraveling, clark's demand and claims that he would soon fire rosen, tape of trump's pressure company on georgia's secretary of state got out. >> so, look, all i want to do in t this, i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> reporter: trump tore into secretary of state brad raffraf raffensberger insisted georgia's numbers were accurate after three recounts. >> you should want to have an accurate election and you are a republican. >> we believe we do have an accurate election. >> no, you don't, no, you don't, yo

professor leslie thomas qc represented kevin clarke's family at the inquest.ialises in cases like these. he wasn't a threat to anybody. and actually, when you watch the bodycam footage very carefully, you see that one of the officers actually puts her hand on her taser. as if she's ready to use it. and when you stop and ask yourself what was the behaviour that kevin had done to merit immediately being surrounded, all the officers stepping in, is hejust got to his knees. easy, mate. easy. nice and easy, mate. we're just here to help. this is when the fateful decision to restrain kevin is taken. it's as if without talking about it, they all have the same mindset, that this is somebody who needs to be restrained. easy. easy, mate. nice and easy. that's it. and that one. that's it. and what's that mindset based on? fear, perhaps? fear of what they see. what do they see? a big, black man. fear. the man is now in handcuffs. he's erm — become quite aggressive to us. - they need to hurry up. has anyone got any leg restraints they can - bring down, please? the officer

clark's body. >> k.c.kind of thing. >> and why according to the prosecutors did james henrikson want doug carlisle killed? >> he really thought that the oil deal they were involved with was worth tens of millions of dollars, and he thought that doug carlisle was standing in the way of him getting most, a large share of those tens of millions of dollars. >> mr. carlisle had already threatened mr. henrikson that he was going to get him out of the oil drilling business. >> and that was the thing that triggered this whole bids. >> yeah, they were each trying to get each other out of the deal. >> at the trial, prosecutors introduced hundreds of text message, an almost play by play account as the plan rolled out. >> you can watch a text message go from henrikson to deleo, and the content is passed to suckow and back other way, negotiations over payment, who's going to be there, does he have an alarm system. >> so when doug carlisle returned from church that evening in december, suckow was waiting, he brought a h

clark to say this has to end.ugh confrontation on january 3rd where they have a meeting in the oval office. >> there a member of congressen reportedly played a large role in the plan to replace jeffrey rosen. former administration officials told the "new york times" that clark was originally introduced to trump by pennsylvania representative scott perry of the freedom caucus and he would not have known of clark's support otherwise. representative perry shines a spotlight on congress who continue to advance trump's false claims of voter fraud and question the legitimacy of the biden administration. kasie hunt, what more can you add to this, including that the president didn't even know about this person. >> it sort of underscores the way this entire thing has worked in that many members of congress are totally obscure but they are willing to buy into and believe what the president was selling. i think it raises significant questions about mark meadow's possible role here. he was a leader in the freedom caulk us and

louis where they become friends of clark of lewis and clark expedition, and go up the missouri river and spend time with the indians that who are presented here and what they come back with is an unparalleled history of the mandans' culturalfe ways, but also a look of the ways, and max is always comparing it to the brazilian ways, because he cannot get over how dry and scary and baron the great plains are, and so he is going to be looking at the hudus up on the missouri coast, and see the castles, but for him, they are gothic and brooding, and so he is not sure that he likes them. so the notion of the badlands, he is embracing that, because he misses the palm trees and missing brazil, and this is wacky and weird. so if you have been to south dakota and the blackhills, it is a fabously alien looking landscape. so he sickis picking up on thisd he is taking wagner's prints, and puts it in an alum that is similar in scale and presence similar to the ones that wagner did, and it almost bankrupted him in the way that it almost bankrupted humboldt. and so you have niagara falls, and buffalo

we told you earlier this week about a top joe biden appointee called kristen clarke.ery soon she could be running the civil rights division of the justice department, one of the most powerful law enforcement entities in the united states and the world, really. kristen clarke believes that melanin makes people who possess it superior to those who don't. if there's an effort to silence that story. it's so over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't want to dom maggio to see, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have one hundred thousand dollars or more of life insurance you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit conventrydirect.com to find out if you policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insu

colin p clarke, thank _ growing exponentially. colin p clarke, thank you _ growing exponentially. colin p clarke, thank you very much l growing exponentially. colin p - clarke, thank you very much indeed forjoining us here in bbc news. let's turn to events out in the uk. the rate of coronavirus infection has begun to fall, in response to new lockdown measures. in the past 2a hours, less than 40,000 new cases have been recorded, the lowest daily number so far this year. it follows a rapid rise in december and cases peaking earlier this month. but there are more people now being treated for covid in hospitals across the uk than at any point in the pandemic. ten hospital trusts across england say they now have no spare critical care beds — despite extra capacity already being added. so on the front line — it's a relentless struggle to save patients. clive myrie has this special report from the royal london hospital. there are those who must look into the abyss — to spare all of us. how many floors are taken up by covid patients here? we've got patients on the third floor, fourth floo

clark. the department officials convened on a conference call, then asked each other, what will you do if mr. rosen is dismissed? the answer was unanimous. they would resign. for hours they anxiously messaged and called one another as they awaited mr. rosen's fate. and from there, the story only gets more dramatic. leading off our discussion tonight is katie benner, justice department reporter for "the new york times." thank you very much for joining us tonight with this important article. i have read nothing like it. we have all read everything that has been reported from inside the trump presidency these final days, especially with the justice department activity, is beyond anything we have read before. tell us how this began. when was this plot first discovered within the justice department? >> so the pressure on the acting attorney general, jeff rosen, began when barr said he would step down. he had another week to go, but trump immediately called rosen to the white house and said he nee

we told you earlier this week about a top joe biden appointee called kristen clarke.ery soon she could be running the civil rights division of the justice department, one of the most powerful law enforcement entities in the united states and the world, really. kristen clarke believes that melanin makes people who possess it superior to those who don't. there's an effort to silence that story. it's so over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't want you to see, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't wanttttt ♪ if i could be you and you could be me ♪ ♪ for just one hour ♪ ♪ if we could find a way to get inside each other's mind ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ well before you abuse, criticize and accuse ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: earlier this week we brought you exclusive reporting on a woman called kristen clarke. she's about to become a significant figure in this country, she is joe biden's pick to head the civil rights division. clarke wrote that black people might have su

lesley clark discusses president biden's energy policy agenda now. let's begin with what is about to happen in 30 minutes, the nominee for energy secretary, jennifer granholm and discusses , will get underway. guest: she is the former governor of michigan. she was governor when the economic crisis hit the state, hit the u.s. pretty badly, michigan in particular with the auto industry. she proved herself to be a champion of alternative green energy during that time and really pushed it in the auto industry as a way to get them out of tough times. and i think that she met then vice president joe biden when he was pushing the obama administration stimulus act at that time, so they have known each other. she has personal and work experience there. host: who might object to her nomination? guest: i think she will be confirmed. there will be objections. republicans have already made it clear that they have some objections to her, although i do not think they are insurmountable. the objections will be to the larger biden agenda on energy, as well as a forme

louis, where they become friends with william clark of the lewis and clark expedition. they go up the missouri river. they spend the winter with the mandan indians, who are presented here. what they come back with is an unparalleled history of the mandan's cultural lifeways. but also natural history of the midwest of the united states. max is always comparing it to brazil because brazil is this lush rainforest. he cannot get over how barren and sear and dry and scary the great plains seemed to be, particularly when it is not high summer. he will look up the missouri river coast and see castles, but for him, they are gothic and brooding. he is not 100% sure he likes this. the notion of the badlands, he actually embraces that. i miss the palm trees. i am kind of missing brazil. this is a little bit wacky, this is a little bit weird. if you have ever been to south dakota and the black hills, it is a fabulously alien looking landscape. the fact that he is picking up on this is really helpful, too. he takes bodmer's prints and puts them with a text in an album that is simila

later in the broadcast, we'll speak with the lawyer representing the metropolitan ame church, kristen clarke. iran says it has resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity -- a level barred under the 201i iran nuclear agreement. president trump unilaterally withdrew the u.s. from the ndmark deain 2018. an has lonmaintainedts nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. this comes as foreign policy experts fear president trump could be plotting an attack on iran as one of his final acts before joe biden takes office on january 20. in labor news, more than 200 employees of google announced monday they were joining a labor union, accusing the tech giant of ignoring worker demands that the company promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice. members of the newly-formed alphabet workers union wrote in a "new york times" op-ed monday "our bosses have collaborated%d with repressive governments around the world. they have developed artificial intelligence technology for use by the department of defense and profited from ads by a hate group. they have failed to make the changes necessary t

louis where they become friends with william clark of the lewis and clark expedition, they go up thessouri river band of spending the winter indians. when they come back with is a history of the men dems cultural history and the natural history of the west of the united states. max is always comparing it to brazil. brazil is this lush rain forest. he cannot get over how barren and sear and dry and scary the great plains seems to be. particularly when it's not high summer. he will look at the hoodoo's up on the river coast and we will see castles, for him they are gothic and brooding. he's not 100% he likes this. the notion of the badlands, he actually embraces that. i missed the palm trees, i miss i'm kind of missing brazil. this is wacky and weird. you have been to south dakota and through the black hills, it is a fabulously alien looking landscape. the fact that he is picking up on this is really helpful to. he takes bob mueller's prince, and puts that with his text in an album that is similar in scale and impressiveness to the ones humboldt did. and i will nearly bankrupt him the

this is civil rights, according to kristen clarke.he wrong skin color, you don't get into college. she will end the doj's lawsuit over its openly racist admissions practices if you are asian or white, south asian, too. your civil rights are not as important to the head of the doj's new civil right division. that sounds a little backwards to you, you should know kristen clarke is not stopping there. she also think identification cards are racist, but only in certain situations. if you buy a gun, of course you have to show a i.d., that is not racist. but if you want to vote, you shouldn't be allowed. be forced to show i.d., because that is racist. in september of 2017, she cleaned her reasoning behind this on this show. >> are there and millions of people -- you know the answer is no, they aren't. >> there are 600,000 people who don't have conceal and carry permit -- >> passport, or else they can't -- >> tucker -- >> is it racist to require a photo i.d. to get a job or stay in a hotel or buy a gun or fly a plane? >> no. >> so why is it

clark calling to tell me that they had arrested harvey.ie version of this story would end. but real life is not quite like that. for all the suspicion of steven's friends, the murder case against harvey morrow was rather weak. no evidence sufficient to prove that harvey shot steven then dumped his body in the ocean. >> we were looking for steven's dna on the boat. knowing that his death was caused by a gunshot wound it was pretty obvious that there should be something that said this is where it was. >> reporter: but there wasn't. no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed, couldn't find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught the body, carried it round to the spot where boaters saw it floating face down in the water. they hunted everywhere for harvey's gps, but they never found it. months went by. harvey sitting in jail. no luck for the investigation now. and then? a phone call. it was the commandant of harvey's yacht club. >> he says, "i foun

so rosen got a call from clark telling him the president intended to replace rosen with clark, who couldn try to stop congress from certifying the electoral college results. i don't know exactly how clark thought he was going to do that, but i have a pretty good idea what he was going to wear. n aseputyn added that rosen attorney general, leaving mr. rosen speechless. i would be speechless, too. that's like a husband saying "honey, i realize you're not on board with me having a secret affair with lorraine. how about we get a divorce, i openly bang lorraine, but now you can watch?" not only did the former president's attempt to steal the 2020 election fail, get him impeached, and land hundreds of violent morons in jail, it has made big problems for attorney and replicant failing the voight-kampff test, rudy giuliani. this morning, rudy woke up to some bad news. the manufacturer of the voting machines that rudy claimed stole the election for biden, dominion voting systems, is suing him for $1.3 billion over his baseless election claims. rudy, you've got two difficult choices: a: learn how

replace him with jeffrey clark. a doj lawyer, who reportedly told trump he had a plan to cast doubt on the election results, and could put pressure on politicians in georgia to overturn the election. which is something acting-attorney general rosen refused to do. as the reporting lays out, mr. trump's decision came, only after mr. rosen and mr. clark made their competing cases to him, in a bizarre, white house meeting. the two officials, compared with an episode of mr. trump's reality show, "the apprentice." albeit, one that could prompt a constitutional crisis. ultimately, trump decided to keep rosen in place. leader schumer responded just a short time ago. calling for the justice department inspector general to launch an investigation, with the senate-impeachment trial on the horizon. it is a lot to get to. joining me now, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney in the northern district of alabama. she is also an msnbc contributor. joyce, good to see you, always. your reaction to this news that president trump had a pla

clark made their competing cases to him. in a bizarre white house meeting that two officials compared with mr. trump's reality show, the apprentice, albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis. i'm joined by carol lenning. you confirmed this right away. you wrote on twitter, last night when we confirmed this stunning event trump trying for the second time to remove a second ag to save his own political skin i thought, it was bonkers. then it dawned on me, it wasn't shocking at all. this could have caused a huge ripple in the country at the highest law enforcement institution we have. you say this appears to be typical mo forhim. >> lindsay, i think we all can see not only has president trump tried this once, twice, three times to push out attorney general jeff sessions when he was angry about the special counsel probe about russian collusion, russian contacts with campaign members and his own obstruction of that criminal investigation, we see now in the desperate last moments right before he is about to be escorted

kristen clarke will head the division.larke has a history that some republicans that if you democrats find troubling. >> the civil rights division represents the moral center. >> president biden's nominee to have the civil rights division is under fire for past comments and actions when she was president of harvard's black student association. kristen clarke wrote in "the harvard crimson" newspaper in october 1994 "black infants sit, stand, crawl sooner than whites. adding skin color endows blacks with better mental, physical and spiritual ability something with cannot be measured based on eurocentric standards. coastal part of an article criticizing a 1994 book on the bell curve which question the intellectual ability of black students. clarke organized a campus event featuring professor tony martin, author of "the jewish onslaught" who made anti-semitic comments about jews persecuting blacks clarke told the publication it was a mistake and "i unequivocally denounce anti-semitism." about her black supremacy comments, she

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president's corrupt intent here when he was plotting with a junior official david clarke and the justice department to see whether he could fire the acting attorney and therefore. he and prevent. the georgia legislature from certifying the votes by saying that there was an active criminal investigation underway when there was not and that's directly revelle relevant to the portion of the impeachment article that accuses mr trump of approaching the secretary of state in georgia and asking to falsify election returns to find an additional 12000 votes for him at the threat of criminal prosecution if he did not and with this new evidence i think senators may change their mind as to how much time is needed to have a full airing i remember right now in the the radar screen is a little bit off impeachment because the trial is away and the news cycle as 24 hours periscope to it it's not brought but i think that even though there is that initial feeling that the trial should be swift when the evidence is there and the

we're waiting for lewis and clark to get back. can't wait to see when they bring back from those from west of those mountains. for lewis and clark has no clue that has been there. when they get back here is jefferson who's like well what about this, what about that and what about the other did you measure this in measure that? and he said that wasn't in the instructions. but lewis and clark come back to is the excitement of what they did come back, but also the sense of somehow they might have fallen short because change the calculus. he raised the expectations. and what's jefferson wants more than anything else is to be able to feed the caliburn quantity of the data that is so enthusiastic about. that's where we are in 1804, 1805. we are exhilarated. we are euphoric. we have tied our history and our sense of future on to the scale of the mammoth. what happens when george convening the leading scientist in paris is comparing mammoth bones from siberia to the ones in north america, he is teasing out that there's a difference betwee

louis and clark have just left. fact, humboldt is upset he missed them because he wants to chase after them. he's not convinced their instruments are as good as his, and he thinks, i have to go redo what they're doing and they haven't even gotten back yet. he keeps saying the country that stretches west of these mountains presents a vast area to conquer for science. what he is saying to us is, you can't build your way to the top of the hierarchy in europe. the seven wonders of the world, all those architectural monuments that are part of human ambition, you're way behind on that. what you have is nature. what you have is everything west of these mountains. what you can contribute to science is what's going to put you on the map. play to your strengths, go with what's already here. so for a while, it is the mammoth. and, in fact, peel will come out of retirement in order -- he's sort of galvanized by humboldt's visit. he'll come out of retirement, and he says, i think i've got one more great history painting in me, a

and jeffrey clark was secretly meeting with trump and that cascaded to days before that insurrection at the capitol when trump had to be convinced not to fire jeffrey rosen. he didn't. but this is all coming out now about this big plot that trump tried to replace him so he could

kristen clarke is e of the best. think she will be great as the civil rights division. , she's on a, look personal shortlist for supreme court. i think she is that kind of serious and important person. so i'm very happy with that team. you talk about the power they have. that will have a lot to do with garland and cell. the fact they were all announced together, which does not always happen, suggests that department will work hand-in-hand, hand in glove is perhaps a better analogy, so i have hopes it will have real power, real authority -- i think you put it right, to restore divisions of the justice department that have atrophied or in some cases willingly been dismantled by bill barr and jeff sessions. take the civil rights division for instance. one of the main ways the federal government has for imposing standards on local police is through the use of something called consent decree. the department investigates you to avoid federal charges, your jurisdiction, or police department enters a consent decree with the

jeffrey clark his des vising ways to cast doubt on the election results and bolster trump's continuing legal battles. it was a plan that ultimately did not come to pass, but would have sent shockwaves through the department. sources characterize it this way -- nearly touching off a crisis at the country's premier law enforcement institution. the other report out this weekend, "wall street journal" finding donald trump's attempt to find the department of justice invalidate joe biden's victory wen even further. after the texas tbs case was dismissed on december 11th mr. trump began pushing the justice department to file its own lawsuits again the states directly in the supreme court. frustrated his wishes weren't being implemented, trump at one point planned to bypass the attorney general and telephone the acting solicitor general directly. one of trump's outside lawyers sent over a draft legal brief he wished the department to file with the supreme court. now the justice department's inspector general, michael or oy wits, has announced he will investigate any former or current doj offic

environment and national resources division, after clark tried to press the acting a.g.he president's behalf. if installed, clark was to file a case with the supreme court to overturn the election, which rosen refused to do. sources also told the paper clark also wanted to wrongly inform georgia legislators the department was investigating fraud claims in their state and they should void the state's results. white house counsel pat cipollone was in the meeting with trump, rosen, and clark, and pushed back against changing a.g.s and against filing a supreme court case to overturn the election, an idea that had been floated by trump's outside attorneys. he warned of mass resignations at doj if the plan went through, according to people familiar with the meeting. just keeps on coming. >>> meanwhile, the fbi and justice department are in early discussions about not charging some of the rioters at the capitol insurrection. the "washington post" reports that doj officials are debating whether charging all of the approximately 800 people who stormed the capitol is the best cour

jeffrey clark has denied the allegations.e on all of this, i'm bringing in the msnbc political contributor and former republican florida congressman david jolly and democratic strategist bernard whitman. gentlemen, thank you. good morning and welcome. >> good morning. >> never a dull day. david, are republicans going to be under more pressure at this point now to try to hold trump accountable, now with this report that's out? >> yeah, look, i think more evidence could still come out. and there's no surprise in this story, right? we kind of knew that donald trump was doing this. he was trying to do this in plain sight. we're just getting one more piece of evidence that the house managers in the impeachment trial will certainly use to make their case. i do think that mitch mcconnell's request to delay this two weeks -- and frankly it may have been coordinated quietly with the democratic side of the aisle -- but it puts donald trump in a harder spot, not an easier spot. and look, if mitch mcconnell votes to convict, which indica

and as professor clark has said, it is the compass, it is that clock.eople think it should, but there is movement. [applause] >> and of course, we know that from the period of emancipation right down to 1875, people are pushing to make sure that those citizen ship rights that were not granted with emancipation now will be a part of the lives of african americans, with the 14th and the 15th amendment and the act of 1875, but that of course is overturned by 1883. that is when things start going downhill. yes. >> good evening, folks. first talk, i would like to acknowledge one of miss harriet tubman's descend mint -- descendants which are here. i appreciate her being here. come on, tina. yeah! [applause] >> now to my point. there was no embarrassed slave masters in america, period. abraham lincoln was a racist to the core. he said it was two races, one white and one black. the whites just happened to be superior. if you have any questions about that, you can read a book by the author jerome bennett. he did an excellent

there's one small problem, clark's father, tom clark, is on the supreme court. johnson goes to ramsey clark, he says i would love to appoint you as attorney general, but i can't do it with your father on the supreme court. if he says your father is willing to resign as a supreme court justice, then i can appoint you as attorney general. the father resigns, johnson gets another vacancy and marshall moves onto the court. johnson assumes he's going to run for re-election in 1968. he's going to be re-elected in 1968. there are three fairly elderly members of the court including two justices, black and harlan, who were not in good health. so he's working under the assumption he's going to be able to appoint either four or five justices by the time he leaves office. but instead we all know the history, johnson's support begins to weaken and in march of 1968, johnson announces that he's not going to run for re-election. by the summer of 1968, it seems pretty clear that the democrats are going to have a tough time winning this election which means that johnson's success

with vanita gupta and kristen clark. >> eric swalwell said in the last hour that what he wanted to get to the bottom of and any investigation of what happened yesterday on the capitol was whether or not there was help from the inside. and i don't know exactly what he meant, members or perhaps the police. what are your concerns in that area and do you share his wanting to get to the bottom of that? >> well, i absolutely believe that we have to get to the bottom of it. i had told my family that i was very worried about being out on the street in d.c. yesterday and the day before. but that i was going to be in the capitol and that was the safest place in the country. needless to say, i would have never imagined in a million years that the capitol police would have been overrun like that. it is just inexcusable. it is my understanding that the force is over 2,000 people and there were 500 on duty. so what is the explanation? that is why i thought it was so important to publicize the pictures. they acted with complete impugnity as you mentioned a few minutes ago. so do think that we have to

we'll see if democrats choose to add rosen or clark to their witness list.n asked for comment, trump's team did not specifically respond to those allegations in that report. tom? >> andrew, thank you for that. >>> let's turn to weather. the bone-chilling cold settling in for millions in the northeast. slick conditions on the road in utah as snow falls across the rockies and midwest. those systems will become more organized as they push east. let's get to abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano. good evening. >> reporter: hi, tom. that cold air certainly has moved in. look at the numbers in the morning in the east. single digits in new york. boston, 3. minus 5 will be the wind chill in albany. that will set the stage for snow, with these systems coming into the west. rain in southern california. this precip comes together tomorrow, and during the morning hours on monday, dallas could see strong thunderstorms. icy conditions and snow across the midwest. chicago to detroit. this pushes to east for our first round of snow, philly to new york, and another stronge

assistant speaker katherine clark told us it could happen as soon as the middle of next week.a farah, the communications director under president trump who stepped down at the beginning of december. i appreciate your willingness to come on and talk to us. you left in early december because you say you saw what was coming. what did you fear? >> thanks for having me. first and foremost i want to say what happened at the capitol was unacceptable, unamerican, undemocratic and any republican, democrat, person of any political stripes needs to be able to denounce it in the staunchest terms. but i will tell you this, my -- i had growing concerns about the fact that i felt like we were misleading the public with this endeavor to say that the election was stolen. there began with being legitimate questions about fraud, about irregularities. this happens with most national elections and obviously when you're doing significant mail-in voting, but we had paths for recourse, you know, more than 60 cases that went before different courts, many with conservative judges and it became abundant

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lawyer, jeffrey clark in another desperate attempt to overturn the election? it's clear we will find out more and more about this attempt to steal the election from president biden as time goes on. >> yeah. and all of it will be appalling, none of it will be shocking. i mean, it's evidence upon evidence of what was going on. this particular plot went on at the very same time he was calling the secretary of state in georgia and trying to strong arm him into finding the votes that he needed to overturn the result in georgia. so, i mean, i don't know how much evidence you need. the president was willing to subjugate the rule of law and do anything to overturn this election. i honestly don't believe the senate will convict him, but i sure hope that they contemplate this mounting evidence before they vote party ahead of country. >> yeah. mark, listen, among d.o.j. officials, there was a pact if the act, a.g. jeffrey rosen was dismissed, they would all resign. so trump kept rosen because he was worried about the mass resignations. let me read something from you here

to the right of your screen is abraham clark of new jersey. was criticizing washington, one of his sons was a prisoner of war. of them treated so deplorably .hat congress had to retaliate they had to do the same thing to a british officer. there is daniel broadhead. in november of 1777, also saying to horatio gates that officers are tired of losing battles. they want to serve under gates. broadhead was openly blaming the losses on washington's leadership. screen underof the abraham clark is another major general. thomas met for. -- thomas mifflin. he was washington aid, he was in high favor with washington. have added other individuals to that collage. these were serious men. their arguments were basically on two fronts. you had men like mifflin, wayne whose arguments were simply military. washington was losing. then you had samual adams, benjamin rush, abraham clark simply objected to washington's decisions. they wanted to rely on militia. there is historical context that we have to keep in. the military history of the 13 colonies was in fact

let me start with the same question i asked congressman clark. how are you doing?ow do you understand the events of yesterday? >> well, chris, it's good to be with you. i'm still in shock that we had a violent mob attack the capitol of the united states, attack our capitol. at the same time, it was predictable given the lies and the poison and the incitement of so many people by the president of the united states, that something like this could happen, something violent could happen in the attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. and that's what we witnessed yesterday. the result of a president inciting insurrection and sedition. and people trying to essentially overturn the will of the people and the election in our country. sad day for our country. there has to be active and urgent reaction. >> yeah, so i have no illusions about anyone's come to jesus moments about the nature of this president. everything i think on, well, largely in capitol hill, but i think precisely now with the republicans are sort of cynical calculations, but it's striking to me, e