Former Trump administration acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen testified before senators behind closed doors for nearly seven hours on Saturday in a session focused on possible election interference, Fox News has learned. TRUMP TOLD DOJ OFFICIALS IN DECEMBER 2020 TO CALL ELECTION ‘CORRUPT,’ NOTES SHOWHandwritten notes taken by Rosen's number two Richard Donoghue and released by the House Oversight Committee on Friday show that Trump told the DOJ officials to "just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Rosen reportedly then told Trump that the Justice Department "can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election." "We have an obligation to tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election," Trump said, according to the notes. Judiciary Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin told CNN Sunday that Rosen "told us a lot" and was "very open."

Source: Fox News August 08, 2021 18:56 UTC