electors and sending electors back to the states, end quote. in addition, doj investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff mark meadows. and a key point there, the post reports the doj received phone records in april from key trump officials and aides, signaling the criminal probe could be further along amid criticism the justice department not taking swift enough action. attorney general merrick garland responding to that criticism yesterday, making clear that anyone criminally responsible will be held accountable. the revelations coming as the new york times reports on previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers, admitting their fake electors scheme was indeed fake. they used the word fake. a lot to get to. let s bring in cnn s kara scannell for more on the latest news signaling doj, the scope of doj s investigations. kara, it is one thing to look at people around trump
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
documents, some of which were marked as top secret sci, the highest level of classification, top democrats are asking for a congressional briefing as well as damage assessment. since last monday s search, the former president s response to the search has shifted. his latest claim any documents taken from fall under attorney/client privilege and should be returned immediately. let s begin with the latest this morning surrounding the investigation. katelyn polantz has been covering this since the beginning. new details this morning about what exactly was in these documents and also questions about who had access to them down there. what might be in these documents we don t actually know because if they re classified and remain to be classified, we may may never know what s in them. over the weekend we did hear from two different house committees led by democrats calling for both classified briefings to explain what was found here. also they want a damage assessment to be done
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan