results standing by with a new batch of election results from the key state of arizona whereas this moment trump-backed election denier kari lake has the lead as primary for governor and 80% of the vote is in and we do expect a big batch of votes coming tonight so we are awaiting this, lake leads karen taylor robson, she wins if she wins and she wins if she loses. there were a lot of shenanigans going on. we knew the shenanigans were happening. and lake s not alone. at least five trump-backed election deniers won their primary races last night. i want to play with you what four of these winners, these are people who are moving ahead, advanced, voters on chosen them. this is what four of them said about the last election. for those media outlets that claim there s no fraud, you are willfully ignoring the evidence. if you look at the evidence there is obviously something wrong with the election, okay? trump was robbed with the election. do you believe donald trump shoul
presenting evidence before the grand jury, but when i interviewed alvin bragg, the manhattan d.a. in april, that they would take a look at any testimony that was taken in the civil case. erin? cara, thank you. and let s go straight to elie honig. what does this tell you about the federal robe? there s been a shake-up in the investigation. for the first year and a half or so after january 6th, doj adopted this formalistic, bureaucratic approach. how many times did you hear merrick garland say we start at the ground level. it s something prosecutors say all of the time and it s not really true. you don t have to start at the ground level and you can sometimes start in the middle or near the top if the evidence permits it and the issue was why
wouldn t they start near the top and why wouldn t they talk to people like pat cipollone and mark philbin and mark short a year ago. whatever the reason and whatever the explanation, they are doing that now and it s clear the focus has shifted from the capitol to inside the white house. elie, the other question, think, is the other development that cara was reporting on and that s in new york with ivanka trump, donald trump jr. in the civil case. what does that say to you, if she reports not taking the fifth? i think it s notable the distinction that cara drew between eric trump who did take the fifth and that s his right. you have the right to take the fifth if you think it might be used against you and donald trump who has not taken the fifth. you may ask was there some calculation made there. the testimony that all adult children have given here can be used against them in a criminal case and i m sure they have competent counsel who made them
and that name has not been announced and all of this was so serious to secret service and to leadership that the current director chose to actually delay his retirement to help the agency navigate all of this. all right. whitney, thank you very much. the other story developing tonight, more signs that the investigation by the justice department is expanding and zeroing right in on the inner sanctum of trump s white house. sources are telling us that patrick philbin has been subpoenaed by the grand jury investigating january 6th. philbin worked under white house counsel pat cipollone who himself was just subpoenaed by the grand jury. both men were there, key witnesses for the trump s attempt to subvert the 2020 election. cara skinnel broke the story and what more can you tell about these subpoenas? the subpoenas to the former white house counsel pat sip loany and patrick philbin are seeking documents in their
recommended michael flynn not serve any jail time despite lying to the fbi, the decision stunned many in washington and beyond. at the time the mueller team said the man fired from his job as the national security adviser prosided substantial provided substantial assistance in the investigation and today we learn about exactly what those two words mean because it wasn t just flynn s phone calls with russians that interested mueller. it was also contacted from people with ties to the trump administration and to congress. communications that mueller said focused on how flynn might cooperate with him, contacts that had the potential to obstruct the investigation. cnn cara skinnel is in washington for us. and a judge ordered transcripts to be released in a couple of weeks. so what else do we know. in a couple of weeks we might see the transcripts of the voice mail recording and possibly the audio. what we learned from the unredacted portion of the sentencing memorandum released