Jan. 6 committee

Jan. 6 panel details how Trump tried to use the Justice Department to stay in office

Three top Justice Department officials on Thursday recounted how former President Trump wanted the department to undermine the 2020 election. Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the "Will Be Wild" podcast and a frequent NPR contributor, and attorney Michael Zeldin, host of…

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WATCH: Trump pressured Justice Department to seize states’ voting machines, former DOJ officials say

By Kenichi Serino

Jeffrey Rosen, former acting attorney general, testified on June 23 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public.

Federal agents search former Trump-era DOJ official Jeffrey Clark’s home

By Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker, Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

Federal agents have searched the Virginia home of a Trump-era Justice Department official who championed efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

WATCH: Former top DOJ official Richard Donoghue speaks on Jeffrey Clark’s push for false election fraud claims

By Associated Press

Testimony centered on a tense showdown on Jan. 3, 2021 in which Trump contemplated replacing the acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, with a lower-level official, Jeffrey Clark, who wanted to champion Trump's bogus election fraud claims.

WATCH: Former Justice Department official said Trump asked him to call the election ‘corrupt’

By Casey Kuhn

Former acting deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue spoke on June 23 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings in their fifth public hearing.

WATCH: Rep. Kinzinger highlights Trump pressure on Justice Department

By Casey Kuhn and Associated Press

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, highlighted the pressure President Donald Trump was putting on the Justice Department to keep himself in power.

WATCH: Rep. Thompson says Trump wanted Justice Department to ‘legitimate his lies’

By Associated Press

The Jan. 6 committee is hearing from former Justice Department officials who faced down a relentless pressure campaign from Donald Trump over the 2020 presidential election results while suppressing a bizarre challenge from within their own ranks.

Who is Richard Donoghue and why is he testifying at the Jan. 6 hearing?

By Kenichi Serino

Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general in the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency and one of the Department of Justice officials who resisted pressure to validate Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.

WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 5

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

On Tuesday, the committee heard from election workers and state officials on Tuesday as they described President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Who is Jeffrey Clark and why is he important to the Jan. 6 hearings?

By Kenichi Serino

Jeffrey Clark, a high-ranking DOJ official in the Trump administration, did not appear publicly at the fifth House Jan. 6 committee hearing, but most of the witness testimony focused on his actions in President Donald Trump’s final weeks in office.