on the factions of former president trump. key witnesses include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role the lawyers played. washington post reporting that investigators have emails and phone records of key officials and aides who served in the trump white house, including former chief of staff mark meadows. so until now there was almost no sign that the federal investigation had touched on the actions of the president himself. that is what makes these reports so significant. it changes the entire framing of what we know that the federal government, the department of justice, is doing here. and it comes at the same time that the new york times has this new report about so-called fake elector scheme, previously undisclosed emails that reveal trump advisers actually use the word fake. joining us now is david loughlin, former senior justice department official and former prosecutor, also rep
infrastructure. the president says he wants a bipartisan plan. question is, how does he get around the battle lines that have already been drawn? and new york state lawmakers open an impeachment inquiry into governor andrew cuomo. the question is, what s next for the governor, now that more members of his own party are turning against him? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that s jealous of all you in arizona, which doesn t mark daylight saving time. you do not have to spring forward this weekend. i am kasie hunt on this friday, march 12th. we ll start with the news. president biden delivered his first prime time address last night, and he identified two key dates in the battle against the coronavirus. he directed states to make sure all adults are eligible for the vaccine by may 1st. and if all goes well, he says it s possible that small groups could begin gathering again on the fourth of july. i promise i will do eve
prop 27. they didn t write it for the tribes or the homeless. they wrote it for themselves. time now for 5 things to know for your new day. the justice department for the first time we understand asking questions about former president trump s actions. the federal grand jury prosecutors have been asking aides for the former president about discussions that the former president was part of. these aides to former vice president mike pence, they were subpoenaed by doj to answer questions in this criminal probe. also the washington post reports doj received phone records of close trump aides including former chief of staff
i believe. i have to bring in sorry there, we were about to do a covid segment. i have to bring in pete williams. this was something we had some early heads up about, pete. what can you tell us? well, these are the first this is a significant new development in this case, chuck. the justice department for the first time now has filed seditious conspiracy charges today, charging 11 people with this for related to the january 6th riot at the u.s. capitol and among them is stewart rhodes of texas who, of course, is the founder and leader of the oath keepers. the significant thing there, of course, is several oath keepers have already been indicted in one of the big conspiracy cases, 19 of them, in fact, two of them have already pleaded guilty, but this adds the leader of the oath keepers stewart rhodes and adds the seditious conspiracy charge. i m just looking at this material that has just come in. there s several other people
the capitol grounds and building, this is according to the department of justice, others remained stationed just outside of the city in quick reaction force, qrf they shortened this for, quick reaction force teams. according to the indictment the qrf teams were prepared to rapidly transport firearms and other weapons into washington, d.c. in support of operations aimed at using force to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. i don t want to presume anything here, ari, but all of a sudden it feels like the justice department had arrested a lot of spokes and this is one of the first hubs that they ve got and charged. fair? i think that s fair. i think that s exactly right. as you and our colleagues have been breaking down here in what s a brand-new unsealed indictment what we re seeing here in this, in the seditious conspiracy framework is a much higher level view of what is charged as the organizing, the planning, which we still need to track down and the trial would