republican congressman scott perry. he s one of the people who bought into the notion that election theory was compromised in 2020. he s texting with mark meadows at the time. he was a person who put donald trump in touch with jefflyrey clark, who was a doj official who trump wanted to install at the head of the justice department to push the conspiracy claims. we don t know whether the doj has been able to access these text messages. but it comes as the justice department through jack smith has taken a number of other steps, including firing off subpoenas to election officials in places like nevada, new mexico, georgia, wisconsin and a number of other states trying to get to the body of any contacts his allies had with officials in the important battleground states from the 2020 election. this is a big deal. we re getting new information right now about the january 6th select committee. they re beginning now the next
election. cnn s paula reid has more now from washington for you. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6 firing off subpoenas for four trump advisers who helped to push the big lie. the biggest name on this list is, of course, rudy giuliani. former personal attorney of president trump who spearheaded efforts to try to uncover any evidence of fraud to undermine the results of the 2020 election. the committee also targeting two other former trump attorneys, one jenna ellis. she circulated two memos that purported to analyze the options former vice president pence had to block the electoral votes, and sidney powell who was part of the trump legal team. she was eventually pushed out. but she was one of the loudest voices pushing the big lie. the committee also targeting boris epstein. he was a trump adviser who
uncover whether anything criminal occurred after he narrowly lost the state to president biden. cnn s sara murray has the interview and the story. reporter: the atlanta area district attorney investigating donald trump said as soon as she has a special grand jury seated in may, she ll start firing off subpoenas. most of them will start to come in heavier in june and later months. but we ll certainly start to do some in may. fulton county district attorney fani willis said she isn t worried about trump working to slow her probe into his efforts in 2020 in georgia. are you worried that former president trump could avoid, delay, you know, what s going on with your investigation. no. reporter: why? what gives you that confidence? this is a criminal investigation. we re not playing a game. i plan to use the power of the law. we are all citizens. mr. trump, just as any other american citizen is entitled to dignity. sbooes he s entitled be treated
uncover whether anything criminal occurred after he narrowly lost the state to president biden. cnn s sara murray has the interview and the story. reporter: the atlanta area district attorney investigating donald trump said as soon as she has a special grand jury seated in may, she ll start firing off subpoenas. most of them will come in heavier in june and later months. fulton county district attorney fani willis said she isn t worried about trump working. are you worried that former president trump could avoid, delay, you know, what s going on with your investigation. why? what gives you that confidence? this is a criminal investigation. we re not playing a game. i plan to use the power of the law. we are all citizens. mr. trump, just as any other american citizen is entitled to dignity. he will be treated fairly in this jurisdiction, but i plan to
delayed. saying trump can t be prosecuted for potential time in office. more. reporter: the area district attorney investigating donald trump says as soon as she has a special grand jury seated in may, she ll start firing off subpoenas. most of them will probably start to come in a heavier flow for lack of a better word in june. certainly some in may. reporter: bonnie willis said she isn t worried about slowing the probe in the effort to overturn the election results in 2020. are you worried former president trump could avoid, delay what s going on with your investigation? no. why is that? what gives you that confidence? this is a criminal investigation. we re not here playing a game. i plan to use the power of the law. we are all citizens. mr. trump, just as every other american citizen is entitled to dignity, entitled to be treated fairly, treated fairly in this jurisdiction but i plan to do my job and my job is to make sure that we get the evidence that gives us the