a wake-up call to anyone who likes to call themselves a patriot. the disinformation efforts will not stop, but that s why it s important to acknowledge when our government gets things right. whether it s vaccination rates or the vaccination donations that remind the world that there is no moral equivalence between democracy and autocracy. and that s your reality check. john avlon, thank you very much. new day continues right now. i m john berman alongside brianna keilar on this new day, president biden meeting with nato leaders right now. what he s saying to set the tone as a tense summit happens on wednesday with vladimir putin. plus, the family of a u.s. marine veteran held in a russian president pleading for their son s safe return. they re standing by to speak to us right now. and new revelations about the trump justice department s secret subpoenas. trump s own white house counsel had his phone records subpoenaed too.
and hopefully, some of the people who have been subpoenaed in the past and have resisted that will be inclined to show up this time. has congress been neutered in terms of being able to subpoena people? it seems like they should be able to get bill barr to come and testify, jeff sessions, rod rosenstein. i certainly think that the precedent that was set under president trump is you don t have to show up to a congressional subpoena, especially if it s under the other party, and if that s the case, then you kind of wait it out. you just wait it out until people aren t interested anymore. and i hope that that s not something that s going to be able to continue under this new administration. but it s ultimately going to be put to the test. we have no other option but to try and try to bring back some of the norms that predated the trump administration. i want to ask you about republican congressman matt gaetz, who at one point, you had an across the aisle friendship
the house. let s talk about this with former congresswoman katie hill. thank you for joining us in studio today. thanks for having me. i want to ask you first what we heard from house speaking nancy pelosi yesterday on cnn s state of the union. how would it be that there could be an investigation of members of the other branch of government and the press and the rest, too, and the attorneys general did not know? so who are these people, and are they still in the justice department? and again, this is just out of the question no matter who s president, whatever party, this cannot be the way it goes. she doesn t believe that the attorneys general under trump could not have known about secret subpoenas, this wide reaching, members of congress, reporters, even the president s own white house counsel. what do you think? i think there s no way they