andy scholes, thank you very much. new day continues right now. good morning, everyone. to our viewers in the united states and around the world it is wednesday july 27th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. this morning a criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is moving closer to former president donald trump. cnn reports key witnesses subpoenaed by the justice department in recent days include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake electors scheme and the role of trump s lawyers. in addition the new york times and the washington post report that federal investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. attorney general merrick garland called the doj s january 6th investigation the most wide ranging in its history. he says they will go where the evidence takes them. criminally charging a former presiden
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
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