Last month, don mcgahn and his wife received disclosures from apple their records were sought in 2013. This as Merrick Garland is working with leaders of cnn, the washington post, new york times, all of whose journalists were targeted to go over the Leak Investigations carried out by the Doj Under Former president trump. Also, this morning, President Biden is in brussels for his first in Person Summit as president of nato. Comes after a highly anticipated meeting with putin geneva wednesday. Lauren fox from capitol hill has more from Democratic Leaders calling on barr and sessions to testify about secret subpoenas. You and i covered it the last couple years. Lots of times when congressional subpoenas were ignored by members of the Trump Administration. Do we expect seen as to be issued and listened to . Reporter this will have to play out on capitol hill. First, theyll request that bill barr and Jeff Sessions testify before congress. Theres interest in getting more answer on why members of congress and staff might have been targeted, whether or not they were just sort of part of the widespread dragnet to get more information on met a Data Collected by the Justice Department under former President Donald Trump. One of the key questions is how far democrats want to actually go to pursue this. Are they going to try to subpoena Jeff Sessions or bill barr, or are they making requests and see what happens. I think all of it has to be given time. This is the first time lawmakers are back on capitol hill this week after the news broke late thursday. I think thats whats going to happen here on capitol hill. Meanwhile, democrats very clear they have some deep concerns about what is alleged to have happened. Heres what they said. What has happened here are fingerprints of a dictatorship, not a democracy. What the administration did, Justice Department leadership as a former president goes beyond even richard nixon. Reporter one thing that pelosi made clear yesterday on cnn, she is not quite sure how it happened that Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr Have said they have no idea about the dragnet searches. She says thats pretty unbelievable and beyond the pale. Lot of questions what they knew and knew it. Democrats pledging to get to the bottom of it. Lauren fox, well see if theyre able to. Cnn learned the Justice Department also obtained records belonging to president trumps own former white House Counsel, don mcgahn and his wife, back in 2018. Paula reed has been covering this story. Paula, there are really two possibilities here, either mcgahn was a target of the Leak Investigation in some way or his communications were scooped up because he was in communication perhaps with someone who is a target. Do we know at this point . At this point, jim, we dont have an answer to that question. One of many in the investigation. We have been talking to many sources. At this point it is not clear. Just got off the phone with someone at the Justice Department, it is not clear whether he was swept up in some other investigation or being specifically targeted. But we know this is an extraordinary step by the trump Justice Department to secretly request records of then president s top lawyer. Apple was barred from disclosing the request until this past may which means that the Justice Department repeatedly had to go before a judge to insist on keeping this secret. It is also notable that the request came around the same time they were seeking requests for records of democratic lawmakers and what we have here is a pattern of requests, these unusual requests that appear to be related to Leak Investigations but also connect to people the president at that time was unhappy with. Yes, don mcgahn was his top lawyer, but the president was increasingly frustrated with mcgahn over the president s desire that he fire special counsel robert mueller. Whats even more extraordinary, a source tells cnn that then Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein didnt know about the request. Something about that does not add up. That the Justice Department would make an extraordinary request and two top officials at the Justice Department knew nothing about it. Some former officials suggested thats just not possible. Other people suggested that maybe these folks were swept up. At some point that likely would have been reported to a supervisor. Either misleading or bad oversight. Paula reed, thanks so much. Joining me now, a former u. S. Attorney general under the george w. Bush administration, alberto gonzales. He served as white House Counsel to president bush, now dean of Belmont University college of law. Sir, thanks for joining us this morning. Jim, it is a pleasure. It is a very unusual story. It is bizarre. Talk about that. Previous administrations have pursued Leak Investigations, the Obama Administration included, which at times involved journalists, although in those cases i believe the journalists were investigated as possible conspirators, not just in communication with government officials. Whats unique is scale. Dozens of accounts, including Family Members, and targeted two democratic lawmakers, a host of others. Did the Trump Administration in your view break disturbing new ground here . Frankly, we need to wait for the investigation by the ig, and the investigation by congress before we are confident we fully know the facts. Assume theyre true. Typically, prosecutors have discretion in engaging in investigations and prosecuting cases. That discretion when you talk about the press or records of the press or members after separate branch of government. In that case, a heightened scrutiny, heightened need to get this information or move forward on prosecution. It is very extraordinary as a general matter. The notion that senior officials at department of justice were unaware what was going on here is troubling because that would mean, if in fact facts are true that there are individuals in department of justice doing things that they should have gotten signoffs from superiors before moving forward. Let me ask about that. Both sessions and barr say they didnt know about it. You served as Attorney General, very powerful position at department of justice. Either it is misleading or would you call that good leadership to not know about a scale of subpoenas like this . Listen, there are 100,000 employees work for department of justice. At any one time, somebody is probably doing something they shouldnt be doing, but this is extraordinary, no question about it. It is possible that leadership at the top did not know what was going on. Of course, they should have known, have protocols in place that would require generally for lower level employees, even those that hold Senate Confirmed positions, talking about subpoena with respect to white House Counsel and member of media, member of congress. Generally that goes up to the Attorney General or at least the Deputy Attorney general. So again, it is possible they didnt know about it, highly extraordinary. It would mean there are people operating in department of justice who are doing something that they should have gotten permission or at least notified superiors. This is something that was absolutely necessary. No other way to get the information. Again, this is something that as a general matter does involve the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney general. To get a gag order, would you not need the Attorney General to approve . These were extensive gag orders only expiring now, thats why were finding out about it now, the companies, apple among them, microsoft as well, can now let targets of subpoenas know they were targeted. Well, typically, yes. Usual case it would require again sign off, no question about it, jim. Some of the facts here again, bizarre, amazing. I dont know whether or not the reporting is completely accurate because of that reason. Frankly i am hoping the reporting is inaccurate. With respect, we know many of the facts here. Cnns reporter has gone public with being notified as have other targets of these investigations as they have been notified by apple, so theyre not making this up. We dont know, jim, for example, what is the investigation about, what is the scope of the investigation, whats being targeted here. What are the source of information that exists that the Department Says we cant get the information any other way. Im suggesting theres a lot here that we dont know yet. What predicate then to use a legal term, what justification would be necessary in your view to justify an investigation, a dragnet this broad . Well, of course, talking about some serious issues, serious commissions of large scale crime here. The predicate would be again as i indicated before, theres an absolute need to do this. Theres no other way to get this information and move forward on a legitimate investigation or prosecution. Again, because youre involving members of the media and members of the government, members perhaps in the white house, youre talking about a high bar that would have to be met to move forward with some investigation of this nature. Just test this out for me. Could all these things be true, could it be such a serious threat to national security, require so many subpoenas, right, including of lawmakers and journalists and Family Members of people involved and the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney general not know about it . How could those things be true . Highly unlikely, highly unlikely. Is it possible, i suppose its possible. But it is highly unlikely, yes. Protocols are in place. People understand what protocols are, they know what the rules are, they know with respect to certain kinds of subpoenas, you have to have approval higher up. Is it possible, it is possible, but again, highly unlikely. On the other hand, jim, ive got to tell you, when a former Attorney General says publicly i didnt know about this, to me, carries a great deal of weight. I cant imagine they would lie about it. Listen, theyre not under oath, no question about it. But nonetheless, to make a Public Statement like that, boy, it will take nerve to make a Public Statement. Because it is going to come out. I am testing how it all can be true, a huge threat, wouldnt know about it. A lot of questions either. Thanks, jim. Right now, President Biden is attending his first summit as president. 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Relationship with nato allies after former president trumps vastly different approach which included down playing the need for the organization, complaining that other countries werent paying enough, even raising questions about the mutual defense aspect of the alliance. Jeff zeleny is in brussels with more. It seems that part of bidens intent is to flip that message on its head, to say the u. S. Is back and committed to nato. Jim, thats exactly what prescribe is doing. You saw it from the moment he arrived here. You see it on the looks of his counter parts. There are smiles. Theres not tension that was felt here during both visits that former President Donald Trump had. You could feel an entire different moment. What President Biden is trying to do is to reaffirm commitment for the Transatlantic Alliance and need for nato. He explained that when he arrived. I want to make it clear. Nato is critically important to u. S. Interest, in and of itself. It allows america to conduct its business Around The World in a way that never would have occurred. I just want all of europe to know that the United States is there. The United States is there. That clearly was the message that President Biden wanted to send, that the u. S. Is back, but he needs to prove it. He and other leaders of the 30 allied nations are meeting. They only get five minutes each to speak because there are so many of them. What is going to come out of this is the beginning of a yearlong discussion, trying to have a nato statement about aggression of russia and rise of china which was never mentioned before in a statement from nato. You reported that President Biden is unlike his predecessor, using time away from Summit Meetings to prepare for his summit on wednesday with Vladimir Putin. How exactly and what does he intend to accomplish in that meeting . Reporter President Biden is spending most mornings he has been away meeting with leaders, talking to advisers, preparing for what he expects will be a tough confrontation with president putin. Hes also talking to other World Leaders who have been dealing with putin for years. For example, angela merkel. The president even talked to Queen Elizabeth yesterday about Vladimir Putin. We know he is having conversations. He is the fifth american president in a row that will meet with putin. He believes his experience on the foreign stage would change that. He