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
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 president, of course, would be unprecedented. these revelations are coming as the times reports on previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers admitting their fake electors scheme was indeed fake, quote fake, in fact, former acting defense secretary chris miller telling the january 6th committee that despite what donald trump says there was no order to have national guard troops at the ready on january 6th. there was no direct order from president trump to put 10,000 troops to be on the ready for january 6, correct? no. yeah, that s correct. there was no direct there was no order from the president. all right. with us now maggie haberman cnn political analyst and senior police cal correspondent for
left the area. some images even show bodies with hands tied behind their backs. the russian defense ministry denies killing civilians and claims images of dead civilians are quote fake. but we met family just returning to their house. which they say was occupied by russian soldiers. they show us the body of a dead man in civilian clothes they found in the backyard. hi hands and feet tied with severe bruises and a shell casing laying nearby. russia military appears to have suffered heavy losses before being driven out of the area around kyiv. this column of armored vehicles completely destroyed. the way the ukrainians tell us is that they russians were trying to go towards kyiv and intercepted by ukrainian drones. artillery and the javelin antitank weapons. it s not clear how many russians were killed but many were and
are quote fake. but we met a family just returning to their house which they say was occupied by russian soldiers. they show us the body of a dead man in civilian clothes they had found in the pack yard. his hands and feet tied with severe bruises and a shell casing still laying nearby. russia s military appears to have suffered heavy losses before being driven out of the area. this column of armored vehicles in bucha completely destroyed. the way the ukraine ians tell u is russians are trying to go towards kyiv and intercepted by ukrainian drones, artillery and also the javelin anti tank weapons. it not clear how many russians were killed here but they say many were. and others fled the scene. a national police officer says the russian troops were simply too arrogant. they thought they could drive on the streets and just go through
in an astonishingly blatant abuse of power, the president of the united states attempted to use the power of his office and the power of the federal government to financially injure a company owned by a man who published journalism the president doesn t like. the washington post reporting today that trump has personally been pushing the postmaster general to raise shipping rates on amazon, a company owned by jeff bezos, who also happens to publish the washington post and for months, as you probably noticed, the president has repeatedly insistently linked amazon to the washington post calling the quote fake washington post a lobbyist for amazon. saying the paper functions as a tax shelter for bezos while also falsely claiming that amazon rips off the post office. the post office is losing billions of dollars and the taxpayers are paying for that money because it delivers packages for amazon at a very below cost. we now know that was not idle chatter. the president has been