Donald Trump was “persistent” in his efforts to get the Department of Justice to discredit the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to closed-door Congressional testimony delivered on Saturday by Jeffrey Rosen, who was the acting Attorney General during Trump’s final weeks in office.

The Washington Post reports that “Rosen said he had to “persuade the president not to pursue a different path” at a high-stakes January meeting in which Trump considered ousting Rosen as the nation’s most powerful law enforcement officer.”

Rosen added, “But as to the actual issues put to the Justice Department, DOJ consistently acted with integrity, and the rule of law held fast.” He claimed to have told Trump that he was “misinformed or wrong,” about the 2020 election.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Rosen’s testimony revealed a “frightening” behind the scenes campaign to undermine democracy.

“[Rosen] was being asked by the White House, the leadership in the White House, to meet with certain people who had these wild, bizarre theories of why that election wasn’t valid. And he refused to do it,” Durbin told CNN.

The Justice Department watchdog and congressional investigators are probing the actions of Trump and Jeffrey Clark, then the acting head of the DOJ’s civil division, in their efforts to keep Trump in office. According to The New York Times, Clark pushed “top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. That prompted Mr. Trump to consider ousting Mr. Rosen and installing Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.”

The Washington Post adds:

Two weeks ago, Congress obtained and released handwritten notes from Rosen’s deputy, Richard Donoghue, who participated in phone calls with Trump and Rosen in which the president urged them to cast doubt on the integrity of the election. Donoghue’s notes describe Trump telling him and Rosen to “just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me” and Republican lawmakers. They also describe Rosen and Donoghue saying claims of election fraud did not appear to have merit.

Appearing on MSNBC on Friday morning, conservative lawyer George Conway called Trump’s pressure campaign on the DOJ “absolutely one of the most dangerous moments in American history.” (watch above).

He added, “The DOJ, if it hasn’t already … should begin a criminal investigation.”