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MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes was in disbelief on Friday as he interviewed Katie Benner, The New York Times reporter behind the newspaper's bombshell report on Donald Trump's efforts to force out his acting Attorney General in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
"The Justice Department's top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department's power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results," Benner reported Friday evening.
<p>"The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Trump's continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Mr. Rosen had refused the president's entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark," Benner reported. "The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed? The answer was unanimous. They would resign."</p><p>"Their informal pact ultimately helped persuade Mr. Trump to keep Mr. Rosen in place, calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of the Justice Department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. Mr. Trump's decision came only after Mr. Rosen and Mr. Clark made their competing cases to him in a bizarre White House meeting that two officials compared with an episode of Mr. Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis," Benner explained.</p>
<p>MSNBC's "All In" anchor Chris Hayes described it as "incredible, incredible reporting."<br/></p><p>Benner detailed the strange set of events in the tale and how they ran parallel to other pressure efforts to overturn the election results in Georgia.</p><p>"What a remarkable bit of reporting, truly incredible scoop and a shocking set of facts that you have unearth and presented to the world," Hayes said.</p><p>Watch:</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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Only days after Donald Trump returned to private life, The New York Times published a blockbuster new story on his efforts to overturn the election.
"The Justice Department's top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department's power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results," The New York Times reported Friday evening.
<p>"The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Trump's continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Mr. Rosen had refused the president's entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark," the newspaper reported. "The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed? The answer was unanimous. They would resign."</p><p>"Their informal pact ultimately helped persuade Mr. Trump to keep Mr. Rosen in place, calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of the Justice Department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. Mr. Trump's decision came only after Mr. Rosen and Mr. Clark made their competing cases to him in a bizarre White House meeting that two officials compared with an episode of Mr. Trump's reality show "The Apprentice," albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis," the newspaper explained.</p><p>The bombshell report was "based on interviews with four former Trump administration officials who asked not to be named because of fear of retaliation."</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/jeffrey-clark-trump-justice-department-election.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p>
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America will receive far fewer COVID-19 vaccines than hoped due to a decision made in the final days of the Trump administration.
"In December, pharmacists made the happy discovery that they could squeeze an extra vaccine dose out of Pfizer vials that were supposed to contain only five. Now, it appears, the bill is due. Pfizer plans to count the surprise sixth dose toward its previous commitment of 200 million doses of Covid vaccine by the end of July and therefore will be providing fewer vials than once expected for the United States," The New York Times reported Friday evening. "And yet, pharmacists at some vaccination sites say they are still struggling to reliably extract the extra doses, which require the use of a specialty syringe."
<p>"For weeks, Pfizer executives pushed officials at the Food and Drug Administration to change the wording of the vaccine's so-called emergency use authorization so that it formally acknowledged that the vials contained six doses, not five," the newspaper reported. "The distinction was critical: Pfizer's contract with the federal government requires that it be paid by the dose. And there were serious public health implications. If the label's formal language told people administering the vaccine that the vial contained a sixth dose, that could accelerate the pace of vaccinations at a crucial time. At one point, Pfizer executives lashed out at the top federal vaccine regulator over the government's hesitation to approve the request, according to people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to discuss them."</p><p>The Trump administration approved Ffizer's request on January 6th.</p><p>The newspaper reported that Pfizer "can now sell vials the United States had been expecting to other countries, or charge the United States for them in future deals."</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer-extra-doses.html?referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p>
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