You also noted that Mr. Rosen said to Mr. Trump, quote, DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election.

How did the president respond to that, sir?

He responded very quickly and said, essentially, that's not what I'm asking you do.

What I'm just asking you do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressman.

That is the key line from yesterday's hearing into the Capitol attack.

It's being called the, quote, smoking gun by one top lawyer who says it speaks to Trump's

criminal intent.

Hearing number five into January 6th focused on Donald Trump's efforts to get the Justice Department to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud.

That includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general who would go along with his election conspiracies the pressure top leaders faced when they refused to do so and how those

leaders banded together and ultimately prevailed. The committee also revealed the Republican lawmakers

who sought pardons from Trump after the Capitol attack for their roles in the election scheme.

We will have all the key and extremely dramatic moments

just ahead, plus major developments on the debate over gun safety. Last night, the Senate passed

a bipartisan gun reform bill, its most sweeping gun bill in decades. It came on the same day

the Supreme Court issued its first major decision on guns

in a decade. We'll go through it all. But wow, yesterday a fire hose of big news, Joe.

What a significant day. And I will tell you, I was away the the TV for a good part of the day and started

getting breaking news alerts about the hearings started following some I had to come back

rewatch the entire hearing all over it it really yesterday really about as compelling of any hearing we've seen on Capitol Hill

since the days of Watergate. I was young when the Watergate hearings were on. I was upset because

we only had four channels then. And it was, I wanted to see the Flintstones and Mr. Ed. My parents

were sitting in front that watching Watergate.

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