push by some trump allies to promote slates of fake electors, and quote. what do we make about these two new reports detailing an expansion of the justice department's investigation, and could it reach as high as the former president? joining us now is devlin barrett, the lead byline on the washington post story yesterday, which first broke the news that the justice department is branching out it's january six investigation. good to see you, thank you for joining us. your reporting is that the subpoena requests have gone out to what your officials described as officials and former president donald trump's orbit. would you take that to mean? who are these officials, could they include members of his administration, close associates, financial backers? >> i think the way to think about this set of information demands that they're looking for whatever one's role was in january six.