The committee stands adjourned.

Hi again everyone.

New revelations coming in waves today from the January 6th

Select Committee who today, name names, revealing the list of Republican members of Congress

who contacted the White House after January 6th to seek presidential pardons for their conduct.

A remarkable development showing these Republicans, Scott Perry, Louis Gomer, Matt Gates,

Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, and Marjorie Taylor Greene had some knowledge that what they were engaging in was criminal,

was illegal. And yet they pursued the big lie of voter fraud and everything that accompanied it,

and ultimately fueled a deadly insurrection.

That stunning revelation of presidential pardon testimony, this request,

came as the committee put front and center today.

The pressure campaign waged by the ex-president on his Department of Justice,

whose top officials, fortunately for all of us, stood up for the rule of law and the Constitution

and did not ever bend to the ex-presidents demands to legitimize his lies.

Former DOJ officials described in dramatic detail a surreal meeting in the White House,

three days before the January 6th insurrection, wherein they relayed to the ex-president

that if he installed his guy at DOJ, Jeffrey Clark, as acting Attorney General,

they would all resign on mass.

I said, Mr. President, we resign immediately.

I'm not working one minute for this guy, who I just declared was completely incompetent.

And so the president immediately turned to Mr. Angle, and he said,

Steve, you wouldn't resign. Would you? And he said, absolutely, there would,

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