to vice president pence, mark short, greg jacob, they were both asked during their grand jury testimony about the fake elector scheme and the roles of trump lawyers rudy giuliani and john eastman. this morning in additions, the new york times and washington post are reporting justice department investigators back in april received phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. all of this as the attorney general himself, merrick garland, is speaking out in a new interview responding to criticism that the justice department isn t moving fast enough. let s begin with cnn s evan perez. he s been standing by. what more are you learning about the justice department s investigation here? how broad and far they re looking? reporter: well, in this interview with nbc yesterday, the attorney general, merrick garland, made clear that this is a very broad investigation. this is what he described it as, an investigatio
much-needed breathing room. and i think everyone ought to agree with that. what it s not is what you said something like, you know, is everybody breathing freely again? of course not. we have much more work to do, and we re going to continue to do that. but some of our work is actually reflected in these lower prices, particularly the president s release of all those barrels of oil from the strategic reserve. that is not the only factor in the global price, but it s in the mix. so we ve got to tell both sides. yep. and we ll see what happens today and see what happens tomorrow. please come back on. good to see you, thank you. you, too. coming up for us, wnba star brittney griner, she testifies in her trial in russia in a russian courtroom once again. what she says happened in court next. daughter were driving when they got a crack in their windshield. [smash] dad: it s okay. pull over. tech: he wouldn t take his car just anywhere. pop rock music tech: .so he brought
doctors say the elderly and the young are the worst affected. in the north. dr other than a long surgeon has long campaigned for the right to be born there in the capital over thirty years he says he has seen lungs and benito interim a healthy bank to black everybody breathing in the city of delhi including you and me smoking twenty cigarettes and unfortunately that includes of a newborn s we are a country who presents a bag of cigarettes to its newborns on the day one of their light and fire crackers he says only act to the problem as opposed to the pollution coming from those sources crack good presidents a very cute and very highly and very toxic level i call it the lowest hanging fruit as far as the direct defining a cause of pollution is concerned. even in jest supreme court has weighed in on the
experts say when it comes, it s like everybody breathing in a lot of second-hand cigarette smoke. listen. so it affects the heart, the lungs, the brain, and in case of a pregnant mother, affects the placenta, and so there are all kinds of studies showing that people exported to more air pollution have higher rates of heart attacks and strokes and premature death. and in fact a couple of times a year the chinese smog gets so bad it pushes us above the federal safe air standard level. what s the goal of the study? reporter: the hope is to be able to convince people in the united states that when we buy all those cell phones and xboxs and all the toy from china, there are consequences. they are the ones manufacturing most of the goods but also marring most of the smog, and they are exporting that smog. so, maybe the goal is to get them convince the united states and china to get better air