investigation. the former white house chief of staff is now the highest ranking trump official to have responded to a subpoena in this investigation. cnn washington correspondent pamela brown joins us with more on this exclusive cnn reporting. pamela, what exactly did he turn over? he turned over, according to sources, jim and poppy, documents, communication, text exchanges around the election and efforts to overturn the election and january 6th, the same stuff he turned over to the january 6th committee, now turned over to doj. we do know that mark meadows was selective in what he turned over to the committee, and the same is the case with what was turned over to doj. there are still questions of privilege, and right now doj is fighting privilege claims from other trump aides behind closed doors in sealed court proceedings. we know that that is happening which, of course, leads you to the next question, will doj will asking for more from mark
now to some exclusive cnn reporting. donald trump s legal team is talking with the justice department regarding its january 6th criminal probe. sources saying they re focused on executive privilege issues, specifically whether or not trump can shield conversations he had as president from federal prosecutors. in a statement to cnn, a spokesperson for the former president said, quote, there is clearly a concerted effort to undermine the vital constitutionally rooted executive and attorney/client privileges through partisan political persecution. this just the latest sign the doj s investigation is accelerating and turning its focus to the former president. cnn learned this week the doj issued subpoenas for trump s
today that the justice department, they re investigation is getting closer to the former president. we know that trump s legal team is directly talking with top doj officials and sources say trump has asked his advisers if he s in personal legal jeopardy. cnn s kara scannell joins me now. you were on the team that broke this exclusive cnn reporting. what are you learning? we re learning that some of trump s attorneys are speaking with the head of the justice department s investigation into january 6. and interference with the election. and our sources tell us that these talks revolve around the issue of executive privilege and whether the former president could try to shield from prosecutors certain communications that he had while he was in office. now this tells us that this investigation is accelerating, that they re already discussing and debating this issue and that the focus is in the west wing. because prosecutors want to be able to access conversations,
good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. good morning. great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china s stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it s not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in
that helps them to finance this war. again, i want to repeat, the war is not only on ukraine, the war on democratic values, and pretty much on the world order. so, again, we welcome all the decisions, new sanction packages, and we will continue working with all of our friends and allies on more sanctions. and i want to commend the u.s. here on leading in so many fronts of the sanctions, but there is also still much more we can do together. for example, russian banks. all of them should be sanctioned. all of them should be on the list because there is no such thing as peaceful banking in russia anymore. ambassador, we do appreciate you being with us. thank you. thank you very much. coming up, the battle it redraw the nation s voting maps for the next decade, why judges are stepping in to stop lawmakers from rigging the system. plus, new unprecedented steps to track down the person who leaked the draft supreme court opinion that seeks to overturn roe v. wade. we have exclusive cn