jeff clark. i thought the proposal was asinine. >> what were clark's purported basis for why it was in the presidents interest for him to step in, but would he do? how would things change, according to mr. clark in the meeting? >> he repeatedly said to the president that if he would put in the sea human conduct wheel investigations that would, in his view, uncover widespread fraud. he would send out a letter that he had drafted and that this was a last opportunity to set this definitive election into action. he could do it, he had the intelligence and the will and the desire to pursue these matters in the way that the president thought most appropriate. >> he was making a pitch, every time he would get clobbered over the head. he would, like, say call to order, president into your decision. you have a chance to make this decision. you've heard everyone, you can make you determination. we would jump back in. really clobber him. >> i think the point that jeff clarke would not even be competent to p

jeff clark has not been charged with any crimes. his homp home was searched earl in the summer. >> sarah murray, thank you for your reporting. elie, presumably to the attorney general signing off for the former president's home and office at mar-a-lago, how high up in the justice department would this go? this is a sitting member of congress we know from the january 6th committee testimony was introducing donald trump to jeffrey clark. we know he was part of the conversations in his home state of the commonwealth of pennsylvania to try to overturn the election results there but you're serving a subpoena and taking a cell phone from a sitting republican member of congress and that is pretty high up the sensitivity chart. >> yeah. john. no question in my mind this would have had to go up to the attorney general. the third story a sitting member of congress has his phone seized by the fbi. this to me is one of the overlooked aspects of the efforts leading up to january 6th to steal the election. scott perry was instrumental in this pla

acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue describe jeff clark's letter this way, "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 mr. donahue's assessment. clark assumed the role of attorney general and the days before january 6 and issued the letters, the ramifications could have been grave. mr. donahue also said this about clark's plan. [video clip] >> i recall towards the end saying, what you are proposing is nothing less than the united states justice department meddling in the outcome of the presidential election. [end of video clip] rep. cheney: in our hearings you will hear firsthand how the senior leadership of the department of justice threatened to resign, how the white house counsel threatened to resign, and how they confronted donald trump and jeff clark in the oval office. the men involved, including acting attorney general jeff rosen and acting attorney -- were reported by president trump. these men honored their oath of office, they did

the fact that jeff clark's phone has been seized and john eastman's phone has been seized and searched looking for specific communications and if scott perry was tipped off, they might not find what they were looking for. >> we'll leave it there. thank you both so much. >>> the field is officially set for what will be one of the most closely watched ill be one of tht closely watche

earlier this year, armed federal agents arrested jeff clark in his pajamas in a predawn raid. jeff joins us now. jeff, as you see everything unfold, and of course your recent experience, what's your reaction? >> well, will, thanks to you to be here, but i'm outraged for president trump, and more importantly i'm outraged for the presidency. this is an unprecedented step that just shows the department is being weaponized, that it's out of control, that the fbi is out of control. i'd heard earlier remarks by steve bannon about the deep state or the administrative state. i think of them as a live but separate, with the deep state being the intelligent apparatus and the fbi is part of that. i think we need to get control over that agency. it's more out of control than the cia was when senator church held his famous church committee hearings. we need the incoming congress, which starts in january, to do the same thing to turn the fbi upside down, looking at that department so it can be reformed, and so that if donald trump does run for president again and takes over and can use his c

everyone thought clark's proposal was crazy, including white house attorney eric herschmann: >> i thought jeff'st, at a certain point, you know, listen, the best i could tell was, the only thing you knew about environmental and elections challenges is that they both start with "e", and based on your answer tonight, i am not even certain you know that. >> stephen: to which clark replied, "of course they don't! 'environment' starts with 'n,' and 'elections' starts with 'l'! a-duh." ( applause ) then, as with all the ex- president's criminal schemes, it was time to hear about rudy giuliani's role. >> do you remember ever recommending to anybody that mr. clark, meaning jeffrey clark at d.o.j., be given election- related responsibilities? (long pause) >> you mean beyond the president? >> stephen: that is a long pause, but it does take a while to chug a bottle of yellowtail chardonnay. rudy eventually answered. >> you mean beyond the president? >> correct. (pause) ( laughter ) >> well, beyond the president i do recall saying to people that um somebody should be put in charge of the justice department

not long ago, more than a dozen federal agents -- the rate on this trip official jeff clark, who went in the street in his underwear for maximum location. then, john eastman, who was approached by six agents at a restaurant in mexico while leaving a restaurant with his wife. they patted him down and forced them to provide facial biometric data, and then they tried the same thing with steve bannon -- bob costello. we can go on and on. the point is that all this violates the first amendment and long-established attorney-client privilege, but it's happening right in front of us. the fbi shackled this form of trump official, peter navarro. he was handcuffed, denied food and water. then, because that wasn't terrifying enough -- perceives them too close to trump. a day after the mar-a-lago raid, this congressman -- while he was traveling with his family, they could have set up something. they did not ask anyone and his family. these are the prominent victims of this crackdown on the biden administration. in the wake of the january 6 justice protests -- more than 900 people have been charged

he can talk about the plots to appoint jeff clark as acting attorney general so he could try to change-called fake elector scheme. i'm not sure how much personal knowledge he'll have with that. but there's a whole range of issues that he can be asked about. you can tell from that clip, he's a good story teller and very colorful and entertaining and yet, at the same time, credible witness. >> he remains details and conversations very clearly. and presented them very clearly. look, add him to the list, right, john? if we can put up the grab of all of the former trump white house officials who were subpoenaed, aeric herschmann, pat cipollone cassidy hutchinson, patrick philbin, what is taking shape as far as the investigation? >> a lot of these people are in the inner circle of trump's orbit. those are by and large people who testified before the january 6th committee and whose testimony has come out. so it's hard to know exactly where doj is going with this because of secrecy associated with grand jury proceedings but i would guess it is things i just mentioned, things like overturning t

of these searches came in the same investigation, but victor, scott perry is not a stranger to jeff clark or to trump. in fact, he introduced them around the time of the 2020 election. we also know he was in touch with mark meadows, the white house chief of staff. >> katelyn polantz watching the new developments there and breaking some news. >>> cnn law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe joins me now. he is the former fbi deputy director. andrew, good to see you. let's start here with what we learned from katelyn right at the top there. the concern was that these documents have national security implications, and that's why they went in to get them. does that detail justify now this unprecedented step of executing a search warrant at a former president's home? >> it might, victor. it might. so i think the real question here is how we got from a meeting at mar-a-lago with prosecutors and agents sitting down with the folks at mar-a-lago in june all the way to an abiding interest of recovering that material through a search warrant. that's the big mystery here, and i think quite frankly, i th

and scott perry knows jeff clark and was around after the election in 2020. he was, in fact, brianna, the person who introduced clark and trump right around that time. >> all right. katelyn polantz, great reporting. thank you. >>> let's go back to the search at mar-a-lago. joining me now joey jackson and former federal prosecutor jessica roth. joey, reporting this morning that the fbi took 12 boxes of stuff out of mar-a-lago when they searched it monday. does that seem like a lot? >> look, anything, right, would seem like a lot when it furthers a criminal investigation. we don't know how large the boxes are, how many documents are within those boxes. i think, though, to be misled by the notion that it simply dealt with declassified documents i think would be misleading. i think there is a lot more here that we have to connect the dots to. is there any information in there with respect to january 6th that would further the notion of what he was doing, who he was communicating with, any documents centered around that. so, you know, the fact is that we are in unc

so we've known that jeff clark was part of the grand jury investigation around the fake electors plot, but today, to me brings us one step closer to understanding what the grand jury is also about donald trump. why? because they've now brought in this guy who was one of donald trump's lawyers and we know that they've already subpoenaed the same grand jury, pat cipollone, and fielden, who different lawyers for donald trump. two very high ranking lawyers at the white house. all together, i don't think you bring those folks in unless you're thinking that their boss is the potential target. again, it may be just they're trying to get a complete picture and information and the like, but to me, it's a pretty good sign that they are looking at him, which would make sense because we know that donald trump is the kind of spoke in all these other folks are actually hubs around. so it's hard for me to think that you know, pat cipollone is the one who's like orchestrating this as you put it, coup, on january 6th. >> yeah. i don't get independent, proactive coup brainstorming vibes from him althou

there is no way i am serving under this guy, jeff clark. >> you will hear from mr. donahue in person on thursday as my colleague, mr. kinzinger, presents details about this plan. the chair requests those in the hearing room remain seated until the capitol police have excluded members from the rum. without objection, the committee stands adjourned. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of the house january 6 hearings investigating the attack on the capitol. go to our web resource page to watch the latest videos of the hearings, briefings, coverage of the attack and subsequent investigation since january 6, 2021. we will also have reaction from members of congress, the white house as well as journalists and others talking about the investigation. go to c-span.org/january6 for a simple way to watch when you can see it live. >> c-span's washington journal. every day, we take your calls on the air on the news of the day and discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, the increased and the domestic terror

long ago, more than a dozenn federal agents swooped in for a predawn raid on former trump official jeff clark they left him o on the street in his underwear for maximum humiliation. then they seized john eastman's phone. he was also a trump attorney who was approached by six agents at a restaurant in new mexico while having dinnerst with his wife. they patted him down and forced him to provideleav facial biomec data to unlock his phone. thenen the doj for the same thig with steve bannon, lawyer bob costello trying to force him to surrender his privileged phone and email records. we could go on and on and on.. the point is all of this is illegal. it violates the first amendmentme and violates long established attorney client privilegentstabt but it's happening right in front of us a lot. the fbi shackled former trump f official peter navarro as he was boarding a flight at reagan national airportor. hean was handcuffed, denied food and water, refused permission to make a phone call to lawyer . and because that was terrifying enough by the fbi and after a sitting congressman receives is too clos

we know jeff clark is the guy at the environmental lawyer was part of that. basically do on january 6th to throw out the vote. but we haven't totally know who else. my suspicious has been that donald trump is part of that grand jury investigation after all the grand jury has subpoenaed pat cipollone, trump's two top lawyers at the white house. i don't think you take that step just to get some mere information. and now with alan being called, he knows a lot about the january 6th plot so he has a lot of information. from the way he testified, congressional hearings are like a boring episode of law and order. now when he's involved, i think it will make for interesting proceedings. the last thing i wanted to say, tom winter said unless he has information i don't, i don't believe that donald trump's attorneys or donald trump has access to the affidavit in the search at mar-a-lago. they just have the warrant itself. now we all do because it's bye-bye released. >> tom, so we talked about possible threats here and one of them, there's grave concern that this fbi age

jeff huddleston. [cheering] >> venango county democratic party chairman jon clark is in the house. [cheering] >> if there are any other electives that i failed to mention here, i apologize and i will take full responsibility. welcome and thank you for being here to bring john fetterman back to erie. [cheering] [shouting] >> we are here to celebrate a great candidate for u.s. senate tonight. races all across pennsylvania, not just a statewide races but our district races and house races are critically important this year. please give a warm erie welcome to the candidate for the state legislative districts. [cheering] >> let us give a warm reception to chelsea all, our candidate for the fourth legislative district. answering a heavy rideshare with john fetterman back and forth to washington, d.c., the next congressman for the 16th district. [cheering] >> i was told that this was a bellwether crowd. is this a bellwether crowd? >> [shouting] yes! >> kayla of reporters asking over the last couple days what it means for erie to a bellwether county. i think it means when john fetterman wi