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It’s December 2020. Donald Trump continues to deny that he has lost the election. He and his inner circle are working feverishly to try to overturn it while Trump is getting more and more irate. Then, on Dec. 21, he meets a man named Jeffrey Clark. Suddenly, the full might of the Justice Department is within reach. And he plans to use it.
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0:00.0 | It's December 2020. |
0:03.0 | Donald Trump continues to deny that he lost the election. |
0:07.0 | He and his inner circle are working feverishly to try to overturn it. |
0:11.0 | Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and others are bringing the big lie to state courts |
0:16.7 | and state legislatures across the country. John Eastman is pushing a baseless legal theory. |
0:23.9 | Trump and Dan Scavino are tweeting away, |
0:27.2 | provoking supporters and spurring them to action. |
0:31.0 | And largely out of sight, there's another effort underway. |
0:35.0 | Trump is leaning on his attorney general, Bill Barr, to investigate alleged election fraud. |
0:42.0 | He transmits conspiracy theories and demands that Barr find evidence |
0:46.6 | to support them. This is total fraud and how the FBI and Department of Justice, I don't know, |
0:52.4 | maybe they're involved. You would think if you're in the |
0:55.5 | FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I've not seen anything. |
1:05.8 | Bar is pushing back, insisting that investigations were not finding fraud, |
1:11.6 | quietly at first. Butly at first. |
1:14.1 | But Trump won't back down. |
1:16.3 | I had three discussions with the president |
1:18.1 | that I can recall. |
1:19.4 | And in that context, I made it clear. |
1:21.3 | I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was |
1:25.0 | stolen and putting out this stuff which I told the president was bullshit. |
1:28.2 | Eventually, Barr can't take it anymore. He gives an interview to the Associated Press. |
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