Last month, don mcgahn and his wife received disclosures from apple their records were sought in 2013. This as Merrick Garland is working with leaders of cnn, the washington post, new york times, all of whose journalists were targeted to go over the Leak Investigations carried out by the Doj Under Former president trump. Also, this morning, President Biden is in brussels for his first in Person Summit as president of nato. Comes after a highly anticipated meeting with putin geneva wednesday. Lauren fox from capitol hill has more from Democratic Leaders calling on barr and sessions to testify about secret subpoenas. You and i covered it the last couple years. Lots of times when congressional subpoenas were ignored by members of the Trump Administration. Do we expect seen as to be issued and listened to . Reporter this will have to play out on capitol hill. First, theyll request that bill barr and Jeff Sessions testify before congress. Theres interest in getting more answer on why member
Inner circle. The memo which was obtained by the New York Times and has not been verified by nbc news, was allegedly sent in early December 2020 by trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, who is one of the coconspirators identified but not charged in the Justice Departments latest indictment, of the former president. In the note, chesebro details the fake elector scheme which falsely claims former Vice President mike pence had the power to block the certification of the states votes on january 6th. All just to buy time. Chesebro admitted that the Supreme Court would likely reject the plan, in a statement to nbc news, the lawyer writes that he was simply providing legal advice to trumps campaign. But that quote whether the campaign relied on that device, upon that advice as he intended would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. Those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for American Democ
Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
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you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at mar-a-lago, agents arriving in the late morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that you commonly have seen at searches. remember