overthrow the ultimate outcome of the election for joe biden. katelyn, your dogged reporting on display, thank you for bringing that us to. elliott williams for the great analysis as well. jim? why keep it quiet if it was all on the up and up? cnn learned the department of homeland security is warning of threats of violent attacks from inside the u.s. that could become more volatile throughout the summer, midterm elections season. we should note, it is not the first time they sent something out, post january 6th, makes clear that terrorism threat we face is more domestic than foreign. let s get straight to our law enforcement correspondent whitney wild. what more can you tell us about that reporting? this bulletin threads together the recent attacks and one in buffalo, uvalde, the new york subway shooting and others to assess that we are still in dangerous territory here. the other reality that this report makes very clear is that the environment we were in leading up to janu
so it is significant in that sense. and, katelyn, you have new reporting on the justice department intensifying their investigation, focused on the trump campaign s interaction with so-called alternate republican electors in states that the former president lost, and whether the scheme to organize them could be charged as a crime. what can you tell us? that s right, poppy. i ve been tracking the justice department investigation, this criminal investigation into january 6th and one of those aspects that the justice department has been pursuing is the trump campaign, their communications with state electors in battleground states as the trump campaign wanted to put forward alternate electors to basically supplant the true winners of those states who were going to be voting for biden. so in georgia, i was able to locate an email that a member of the trump campaign, a staffer, had sent out to electors that were about to gather in georgia, telling them not just to gather the next day to
after the riot. this meeting is set to take place virtually, so unfortunately, we won t be able to ask questions to him as he comes in and out of the building, but this, kate, comes a at a very significant time for the committee and here s why. we learned records of what happened on the 6th are incomplete. major time gaps in the documents meant to track the former president s actions and his phone calls and that means that investigators really need to lean on the people in the former president s orbit to try to fill in the blanks and that s where an interview like jared kushner s can be really helpful, kate. whitney, there s also news today about the federal criminal investigation into january 6th. what s happening? kate, we re learning that subpoenas have been issued by a grand jury in washington in recent weeks, seeking information on the planning of the rally, the organization of the rally on the ellipse that happened before the attack. now, this, they are also looking into this