Rosen told the inspector general’s office about five encounters with Jeffrey Clark, who served as acting head of the DOJ’s civil division under Trump. During one encounter, Clark admitted to meeting Trump and promised to not do so again, the Times reported. News of Rosen’s testimony Saturday was first reported by The New York Times, which also reported that Rosen spoke with the Justice Department inspector general’s office on Friday and reached out to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz directly and pledged to cooperate with the investigation.
“There was a lot of activity by Trump personally and by those supporting him to try to put pressure on the Department of Justice to back up his whacky ‘big lie’ theories,” Durbin said on MSNBC, adding that the Judiciary panel wanted to make a “record” of who helped or opposed Trump’s efforts. Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an interview this week that the panel is looking at “what happened in those days after the November election and before President Biden was sworn in.” “Of course, the chairman is the one to decide, but there were some highly significant leads that unquestionably the Judiciary Committee should pursue,” he added.
“I was struck by how close the country came to total catastrophe,” Blumenthal said, adding that there were some “highly significant leads” that the panel should pursue. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the committee, told reporters that he sat through the interview on Saturday. The committee is probing efforts by Trump allies to interfere in the 2020 election results. Rosen was interviewed by staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, lawmakers on the panel confirmed. Yet, despite evidence, our Governor and Secretary of State inexplicably refuse to investigate," Mastriano wrote in a December 28 letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue.Former acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen sat for hours of congressional testimony on Saturday, reportedly testifying on former President Trump’s efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election. "Election fraud is real and prevalent in Pennsylvania. 2 Justice official while Trump was trying to convince then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to publicly say there was fraud in the election, according to the report. And Mastriano pushed his fraud claims to the No. Attorney Cleta Mitchell helped Trump try to convince Georgia's secretary of state to "find" enough votes for him to win. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, introduced Trump to a top DOJ official who was open to election conspiracy theories. Mastriano is one of three under-the-radar figures the report singles out for further investigation for their efforts helping Trump try to subvert the election. Now Mastriano's role behind the scenes helping Trump try to overturn his loss to Joe Biden is under renewed scrutiny after a Democrat-led Senate Judiciary report released last week revealed his correspondence with the Justice Department spreading debunked claims of fraud. And he was briefly in charge of the Pennsylvania state Senate's partisan "audit" of the 2020 election. He chartered buses to ferry his supporters to Washington on January 6. Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance former President Donald Trump's election lies: He spearheaded a "hearing" at a hotel in Gettysburg a few weeks after the 2020 election, where Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made false claims about election fraud. Pennsylvania state lawmaker's key role in Trump's election lie How a Pennsylvania state senator helped fuel Trump's election lies Jeremy Herb I would expect their private testimony will be shown if they decline. CNN previously reported that Rosen and Donoghue were expected to be among the witnesses called for public hearings. The two former Justice Department officials are not expected to be part of the first prime-time hearing, scheduled for Thursday, but rather one of the presentations that follow, sources said.
Rosen and Donoghue have previously spoken with the committee behind closed doors about former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against top Justice Department officials to investigate baseless claims of election fraud prior to January 6, 2021. Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his then-deputy, Richard Donoghue, have been invited by the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection to testify publicly during one of its hearings, multiple sources tell CNN.
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