after learning that trump s doj had secretly subpoenaed, with gag orders, phone and data records, from everyone from adam schiff, the new york times, washington post reporters. we have learned over the weekend, trump s doj even got data from the president s own lawyer. that s right. trump s justice department subpoenaed apple for information, in february 2018, about an account that belonged to don mcgahn, trump s white house counsel, at the time. now, this secretly happened, like all these other subpoenas happened, right? under a gag order. which meant that no one was allowed to say anything. and it recently lapsed which allowed apple to inform former-white house counsel don mcgahn, oh, by the way, your data had been seized. now, one level, it s insanely paranoid to secretly subpoena your own white house counsel. also, shows just how widely aggressive the trump doj was wielding this power. just over an hour ago, the chairman of the house just just
brought up. but you re right there is been a lot of news over the past year that sort of aligning itself with further and further to the right with those type types of politics. they were pretty involved in the efforts to challenge the election results. well this was great reporting. boeing, a few thought that no one would notice, we did. roger did and he rode it up so there you go we know that the company stands for. thank you roger i appreciate it. thanks chris. donald trump s doj was apparently very busy issuing secret subpoenas trying to collect phone and data records from journalists. democrats as well as new york times reporter charlie savage report even donald trump s own lawyer? so why were they surveilling the white house counsel? charlie savage is here with a story in this breaking news about investigations of it all
the line from trump vietnam to watergate and the two of them to a kind of anything to win trumpism is just clear. that s what we ve tried to do in this podcast. and history does repeat itself. jon meacham, we ve been talking about the trump administration getting data records from reporters. i remember mort halperin, they had their home phone line bugged for 20, 21 months. he was a member of the nixon administration and they bugged his phone for 21 months. and now we re finding out that don mcgahn was also targeted by the trump administration and you re hearing barr, sessions, and all of these other trump administration officials saying, they knew nothing about it. so it seems that here we are, 50
capitol hill are pushing for former attorneys general bill barr and jeff sessions to testify over early reports the trump era justice department seized data records of top democrats. barr and sessions are denying knowledge of these secret subpoenas. for the attorneys general, barr and sessions, at least two, to say they didn t know anything about it is beyond belief. so we will have to have them come under oath to testify about that. today i m demanding that the senate republican party join democrats to subpoena both barr and sessions as well as john demmers, the assistant attorney general. they must testify, sessions and barr must testify under oath. so the justice department s inspector general has already announced an investigation into a hunt for leaks by trump s doj
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