including, the president of the united states. my recollection is i have not discussed those. but you don t recall, for sure? i let me move on. i don t recall whether that was related to me. i i i don t recall any discussion of that. i don t recall that phrase and what what context. i don t know. see, i i can t recall that. i i don t remember that. not that i recall. i can t actually remember how it came up. but someone mentioned it. former-attorney general, also, told politico, quote, he was not aware of who we were looking at, in any of the cases. also, that he quote, never discussed the leak cases with trump. he didn t really ask me any of the specifics. again, he didn t have to. the boss was shouting it from the rafters. so, we mentioned the new reporting on this tonight. cnn s evan perez joins us with that. evan, what more are we learning about the justice department s subpoenas to apple? well, john, this was an
suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? nor yes or no, please, sir? the president or anybody else. seems, you would remember something like that, and be able to tell us. yeah, but i m i m trying to grapple with the word, suggest. i mean, there have been discussions of of matters out there that they have not asked me to open an investigation. perhaps, they suggested? i wouldn t say suggest. hinted? i don t know. inferred? you don t know? doesn t know? knows and won t say? will say, but won t lie? won t lie but will deceive? the man has a record dating back to his blatant mischaracterization of the mueller report. he is, also, not afraid to cover just about anything with a thick slathering of don t recalls. you can t recall, whether you have discussed those cases with anyone in the white house?
we talked to him as ballots were being processed and scanned. in the georgia presidential race at the time was too close to call. do you feel pressure on your shoulders? well, yes, because we want to make sure all of the votes count. reporter: election workers did their jobs well. but trump s lies resulted in the election s director receiving hundreds of phone calls, emails, threatening there was threatening hanging. there was one in particular that really alarmed him. a caller had said that they were planning on standing him before a firing squad and killing him. reporter: and here is the audio of one of those phone calls. i think you need a pair of handcuffs slapped on you. it s quite obvious the fraud that went on. why don t you come out and admit it. and quit jerking the american people around. just wondering how much they
have discussed those cases with anyone in the white house including the president of the united states? my recollection is i have not you don t recall for sure? let me move on. i don t recall whether that was related to me. i don t recall any discussion. i don t recall that phrase and what context. i don t recall that i don t remember that. not that i recall. i can t actually remember how it came up but someone mentioned it. the former attorney general also told politico quote he was not aware of who we were looking at in any of the cases and also that he quote never discussed the lead cases with trump and didn t really ask me any of the specifics. again, he didn t have to. the boss was shouting it from the rafters. we mentioned the new reporting on this tonight. cnn evan perez joins us with that. what more are we learning about
administrationized the mechanisms of government to pursue perceived enemies to another disgraced former president, richard nixon, and his enemies list. one rather infamous memo written by then-white house counsel, john dean, in 1971 succinctly explained the purpose of that list. quote, stated a bit more bluntly, how we can use the available-federal machinery to screw our political enemies. i am joined, now, by a veteran of the watergate era. journalist and author and cnn political analyst, carl bernstein. carl, there is a lot we, still, don t know about this. but look. you know, the parallels, between the nixon enemy list and what we are, now, seeing from the former-trump administration. how apt are they? well, they are apt to the extent that nixon wanted to screw his political enemies. no question. so did donald trump. but trump s actions go far much farther than nixon s. and they re much more egregious