And good evening, I'm Anderson Cooper, along with my colleague, Jake Tampery in Washington

for a special two hour 360 looking at what was a truly extraordinary day of witness testimony

and stunning new details revealed during the January 6th Committee hearings.

Former top officials at the Justice Department offering details, sometimes moment by moment

descriptions of private phone calls and meetings demonstrating how the former president personally

and continually tried to convince them to support his fraudulent claims about a stolen election.

Part of today's hearing focused on someone whose home was actually rated by federal investigators

yesterday, former Justice Department official, named Jeffrey Clark.

We're going to have more on that raid in just a moment.

The Committee's interest about Clark has to do with the former president's effort to

install Clark as acting attorney general so that Clark could use the levers of the Justice

Department to subvert Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Take a listen to this incredible moment recalled today of a White House meeting just days

before January 6th involving Jeffrey Clark, today's witnesses, the White House counsel,

Pat Sipollini, and then president Trump.

Clark had just explained his plan.

And here's how White House counsel Eric Hirschman responded in a warning now.

Some of the language is a little bit salty.

I made the point that Jeff Clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general.

He's never been a criminal attorney.

He's never conducted a criminal investigation in his life.

He's never been in front of a injury, much less a trial jury.

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