trump and his al us. we now know trump campaign officials were directly involved in efforts to install bogus pro-trump electors in at least seven states trump lost, and that effort was apparently led by rudy giuliani. now, this news is on top of all the new developments from new york to georgia this week. we've learned the new york attorney general's investigation into the trump organization turned up several misleading statements and add missions in financial documents, so now she wants to get donald trump, don jr. and ivainuku under oath and the fulton county d.a. has requested a special grand jury and just in, a source telling cnn the january 6th committee has received hundreds of trump white house documents just two days after the supreme court rejebtd trump's executive privilege claim to keep these documents secret and now the committee is setting its sights on the inner circle speaking records from the family and ivanka trump, all of that as the former white house press secretary opens up about what she knows today telling cnn the white house residents was a covert meeting spot leading up to january 6th. let's bring in our sara murray now. sara, we know stephanie grisham recently met with the january 6th committee. what have we learned about what she told them? >> well, she essentially told them, you know, in the run-up to january 6th donald trump was so paranoid, he was so worried about leaks in the white house that he decided to move his meetings to the residence. here's a little bit about what she had to say a little bit earlier on our air. >> "the guardian" reporting is accurate. there were meetings taking place up there. i don't have visibility into what was discussed and all of the people who were there, but i can say that, you know, mark meadows would have been there as well as the legal team that was working on all of the bonkers little plans that you were actually talking about right before this segment. >> she points out, of course, meadows might have been privy to this, the legal team might have been privy for this, but reason for holding the meetings in the residence was to keep them away from the many prior eyes of the white house. >> sara, stay with us as i bring in our former deputy assistant attorney general former u.s. attorney harry litman and former federal prosecutor jennifer rogers. jen, what's your reaction to this, and what stands out most? >> a number of things, ana. the notion of secret meetings. you don't have secret meetings unless you're trying to hide something and they now give the committee somewhere else to a.they have already tried to engage with mark med oh, but now and hopefully through the records they are getting from the national archives they can pinpoint who attended these meetings and start talking to some of these people who were there to figure out exactly what was happening inside those walls. >> i also want to highlight something else grisham said today here on cnn. she was asked about whether the trump white house documents that are now being turned over to the committee would show these meetings as part of trump's schedule or potentially what his plans were on january 6th. listen. >> there's something called a line by line and that documents every movement the president is going to make, so potentially it could say, you know, the president will conclude his remarks and then it could say he may walk down, you know, to the capitol with people. it may say that. it may not. so there's definitely documents that could kind of have all of the different options of what he may or may not do. >> and the remarks she was referring to were those that he made prior to the insurrection on january 6th in front of all of his supporters who ultimately stormed the capitol, so hair, why would it matter if trump had planned to walk to the capitol or not? >> it's huge. he's telling them i'm going to be at the capitol with you. that animates them, exhorts them to go and do what he really did. if he never intended to be there and what grisham is saying is look at the secret service records, because if he was going to go it, the secret service would have known, it then we know it was -- it was all a ploy to get them to do exactly what they did while he stayed safely in the white house and kind of rejoiced watching it on cable tv. >> so jen, if the documents speak to his intent, then do you actually need the testimony from trump or others who were with him that day to prove it? >> aprila, they are going to want everything. i mean, you really want to hear from all of the witnesses, especially if you're talking about meetings that happened contemporaneously with what's going on. yes. you want to hear from everyone and gather as much information if you can. if criminal cases are brought here, they will be tough cases. there will be a lot of obstacles so they will definitely want to get all the information they character and each piece that they build helps them kind of get the next piece so that's what they are working on now. >> sara, i want to ask you about additional reporting this, hey alleged plot led by rudy giuliani to install fake electors in seven states that trump lost, and now we're learning trump campaign officials were far more involved in this plot than previously thought. what more do we know? >> that's right. you know, my colleagues talked to a number of sources who up covered, you know, this effort, this push to get these fake electors in a number of states. it was coordinated with trump campaign officials. rudy giuliani was helping to lead this push. there were conference calls between trump campaign officials and gop state operatives. you know, the trump campaign folks were suggesting people who could fill these roles of fake electors and even went so far in some cases to help them secure meeting spaces in the statehouses so the fake electors could meet and come up with the plan. >> just to add to this, the co-chair of the michigan republican party actually alluded to the trump campaign's involvement at a public event earlier this month which was record. listen. >> we fought for investigations into every part of the election we could. he fought for a team of people to come and testify in front of the committee. we fought to seat the electors. the trump campaign asked us to do that under a lot of scrutiny. >> the trump campaign asked us to do that. harry, will any of these participant, whether it's in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin and so forth, will any of them face charges? >> oh, very possibly. i think jen and i could get together and come up four or five federal crimes they might have violated in short order and then there's all the possible state crimes but look at the centerpiece. it's a blatant forgery. they are writing on it and sending to the archives we are the duly constituted electors. they are 100% not, that and the way you really know it is because two of the states wouldn't play ball. they insisted on putting on if a court holds, it but other five went right along and it's a broad conspiracy that had to be shepherded from washington and appears to have been done by giuliani. it's interesting that it's been hiding in plain sight for this past year, but it really could sprawl out of control and be kind of the biggest thing going against team trump overall in -- in the near future. there's so many different prosecutors who could get involved. >> it was pennsylvania and i believe new mexico in which the fake electors had some additional language added into whatever they signed to say that they be willing to step forward as the electors in that state and throw out the electors only if a court basically sided that the other electorses were illegitimate and the electors should be overturned in those states but that did not happen. bigger picture here, key question, who is real directing all of this? you know, if this plot begins or ends with giuliani or if someone game him the green light and asked him to lead this effort, how will the answer to that question change the stakes? >> well, that's a great question, aprila. i mean, we know the directives came from washington, and i think we all know just as a matter of common sense that it came from the top, from donald j. trump and the question is how do you believe, and the committee is being very forceful. pushing to speak to all these people and pushing to speak to rudy giuliani and i think that enough people were involved and heard that they will eventually get there. they will eventually learn the scope of this conspiracy, what happened here, who said what and who direct it had at the end. it will take a little bit more time, but i'm getting more confident that we're going to get there an learn that in fact it was a plot driven from the very top from donald j. trump, the former president, to overturn the election. the one who had the most interest in t.talked about it in round about terms and all sorts of ways publicly and seems like the one he actually initiated the covert effort that we're just learning about, too. we just have to dig out the evidence or the select committee does. >> interesting to know what's in the treasure trove of national archive records that the committee is going through. we've been told hundreds about been turned over at this point and a source telling cnn that then vice president mike pence was concerned about the possibility of alternate electors so his team carefully worded his remarks for january 6th so that he would only recognize the legitimate electors. harry, does that indicate to you that he was aware of giuliani's actions? >> yeah. i mean, it really does, and it also to me indicates that these electors really have -- have a sense of what's going on and it's a broad scheme to. add to what genocide, it's connected to the eastman memo that we've heard about, a lawyer put this together on the 2nd of january, gave it all to trump and it was that that laid the groundwork. get these alternate elect nors place. make mike pence say it's all confusing, i don't know what that will do. that will at least delay things so it was all part of a scheme generated initially with trump's knowledge from this eastman memo. >> at the top of the show we laid out all these different investigations that had developments this week from new york to georgia to the january 6th probe. i want to know from both of you, harry and jen, what do you see of all these different investigations or developments as the biggest legal threat to trump? jen, you first. >> i think that these recent developments with these seven states and the fenway park electors are the biggest risk, both in terms of state criminal liability in at least five of those seven states and federally because now there's another avenue toward potentially charging those folks with impeding congress in their required duties. first we had the insurrection, but have you to prove that they knew there would be force used, violence, that they would go inside the capitol and now there's a whole other avenue where it became much easier to prove that conspiracy, so i think that the seven state electors news is the biggest news and will lead to the most liability. >> hair, how do you see it? >> agree. trump personally, the fulton county case which is clean, discreet and has this great audio tape but the whole kind of brou brouhaha, the whole probability of bringing down the whole operation of those few weeks, i agree with jen. it's this emerging forgery story which is metastasizing more every day. >> and so we try, to you know, play all of these different developments as we get them. we bring those to our viewers. as you watch it all play out though, i think for a lot of americans it feels like these investigations are dragging on and on, and people are wondering is there an end to this at some point? the new york probe, for example, started years ago. any insight given your expert legal experience how much longer these investigations could go when you would anticipate an end to some of these, harry? >> so it's really specific. i'm surprised that the fulton county case only just convened a grand jury. that would suggest another six months or so, and that's what she said. new york d.a. seems to be going through -- to a cloechs the big thing that jen just mentioned is in its baby steps, although january 6th committee is also on it, and the doj i think we now know well. if it does go big and go to the oval office, it won't be until after the mid-terms. >> the january 6th committee isn't a committee that would be able to charge anybody anything, right, so would it be on them to refer charges to the doj, or is it a situation in which the doj reads the documents, the report that is delivered by this committee and has to decide whether it wants to pluck something out of there and take action? >> doj really should be working independently. i mean, it seemed for a while like they were stepping back and kind of waiting for the select committee to take the lead, but i feel like with these developments and the ramping up that they must now be independently looking at this themselves. they won't wait for a referral, you know. they won't really defer to the select committee's work. they will probably move more slowly though because they don't have any reason to bring a case before the mid-term elections whereas the select committee is going to want to finish the work before then so i expect that they are looking at it, and they won't be waiting, but in the natural course of things i think it will take a little longer. >> sara, as all this is piling up, what is the thing that you're watching for next? >> i mean, i'm looking ahead in georgia. i know people were a little bit surprised that they have just now convened this special grand. but the d.a. has made pretty clear there that she wants to make had a decision about whether to bring criminal charges in the first half of this year. she's about to run up against the mid-term elections so does have kind of a tight timeline to make a decision whether to bring criminal charges against the former president, and she does have a relatively clean case depending on how she decide pursue it and i think that could be an interesting one. >> thank you all. happy friday, friends. >> thank you. more breaking news right now. this also out of the justice department where officials have now charged a texas man who allegedly threatened to kill election workers in georgia. i want to bring in jen's senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, who is this man? what are the charges? >> ana, his name is chad stark. he was arrested today in texas, and he's facing charges by federal prosecutors in atlanta. according to prosecutors, he posted on craig's list essentially an ad offering to pay $10,000 to -- for someone to kill election officials in georgia, election workers in georgia. i'll read you just a part what have prosecutors said he posted on craigslist. he said, quote, georgia patriots, it's time for us to take back our state from these lawless treasonous traitors. it's time type volk our second amendment right. it's time to put a bullet in the treasonous chinese, and this is a research, according to prosecutors, to a specific election official in georgia. there's two other officials that the posting goes on to threaten, according to the court documents today. he's charged with making an interstate threat. this is the first charge that we're seeing come out of this -- this task force that the justice department set up about six months ago to go after specifically after these types of threats against election workers. we know that, ana, there has been a surge of these types of threats in the past year or so all over the country, and, of course, a lot of this is fed in by exactly the things that you were just talking about with the panel which is the big lie, the idea that there was fraud, enough fraud in the 2020 election to have made a difference. of course, we know that that is not true, but it doesn't matter because people are making threats, and now, according to the justice department, they are getting arrested for it. >> evan perez, hopefully that sends a message. thank you. just in to cnn, the pentagon now preparing options to bolster the u.s. military presence in eastern europe and the tensions with russia over ukraine. details just ahead. plus, not boosted? 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>> well, would i say that's certainly the positive thing out of the negotiations or the talks that happened today is that at least they said they want to continue to talk and keep this all in the diplomatic realm rather than have anything escalating and the dangerous situation that you were just talking about, more than 100,000 russian troops around the borders of ukraine and moving into belarus now as well and i think one of the things that we also saw is the u.s. secretary of state remaining steadfast saying that there would be severe consequences but at the same time saying that the u.s. is willing to talk about some of russia's security concerns which russia has been talking about to the united states, and there's two really major issues that the russians have had. they said they want some withdrawal of nato forces and weapons out of eastern european countries but the manish ufor them is they said they don't want any more nato enlargement and specifically they don't want ukraine to become part of nato. sergei lavrov, the foreign minister of russia, asked him how that point will be dealt with in this meeting. here's what he had to said. >> translator: antony blinken said and i asked how america would fulfill its level in the framework of the osce along the right to change alliances of the obligation does not strengthen anyone's security at the expense of infringe on the security of others. >> reporter: today the russian foreign minister talking there also saying that this was not the end of dialogue. both sides saying they are going to continue to talk to one another. nevertheless the situation down there near the border at ukraine remains extremely dangerous. >> lavrov says russia does not plan to invade ukraine. of course, a similar assurance was made in 2014 before russian troops invaded and annexed crime ark s.ukraine now more or less worried about a russian invasion after the talks this week? >> i think if you talk to certain quarters of the ukranian government, there is indeed maybe not relief but certainly a sense of optimism that at least the talks are continuing because as long as those talks continue, there is at least a mitigated specter of an imminent invasion, although everybody accepts it as problem and that russia is continuing these diplomatic engagements not so much in good faith but allows them to get their ducks in a row to go ahead with some military invasion, but if one is to take the russians at their word it certainly would appear for people in ukraine that the longer diplomacy is still an option the more time they have and hopefully the more diminished the risk of somewhere because there's a very real understanding on the ground here that while most ukranians are patriots and believe that their army would fight very hard to resist russian aggression they also understand that russia is one of the most sophisticated in the world and it would be devastating if there was an invasion. >> and we do have reporting that russia has also been sending sending military making more aggressive moves against ukraine. >> you see this particularly with the russians and diplomacy. you'll continue to see acts of aggression, probably not raised above certain thresholds and those are intended to apply certain pressure. as for 100 anti-aircraft missile systems being deployed down in belarus near the ukranian border, things of this message that are designed to make it clear that if there isn't a sincerity with regard to how americans enter into this sort of continued diplomatic process, that very quickly the russians can revert, and i should say that it cuts both ways, by the way. i mean, we've heard in recent days that u.s. weaponry coming from the baltic states will be arriving here in the ukraine. we saw the british military sending more -- more software here and weaponry here, so both sides obviously are keen to impress upon each or the sincerity and strictness of their positions by continuing to also make it clear that there will be absolutely no tolerance from the side of the u.s. and nato of any kind of invasion and we heard blinken really underscore that point again today. any tiptoeing across that line that ukranian borderline, will be seen as a reinvasion, and it will be met with swift united, strong action, and the russian side we're seeing the same thing. standing by their side, but ultimately the fact that the u.s. is providing written statements -- a written response next week as requested by the russians i think has to be seen as some cause for optimism, that it's at least not a complete dead end to try to pursue a diplomatic option. >> clarissa ward and frederik pleitgen, thanks to boast you for your reporting and ahall sis. you know this as well as anyone. we were warned. our vaccines for woefd would be less effective against omicron, and now we have the data. clear as day it highlights why most everyone should get a booster. the numbers next. add downy to your wash for all the freshness and softness of home. even when you're not at home. feel the difference with downy. living with diabetes? 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>> hey, ana, first, i'm absolutely excited that the cdc has released these studies at a very optimal time in the pandemic. listen, these numbers don't lie. the biggest statistic that i would take from the numbers that you just mentioned, ana, is the hospitalizations. if you are vaccinated, your vaccine works by 90% to keep you out of the hospital. why would anyone want to go into the hospital and be on a ventilator? and if my infection, a breakthrough infection is just a mild cold or even a severe flu, i would prefer that than being on a ventilator in the hospital, and also i hope that cdc will make a concerted effort to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated. fully vaccinated means fully protected. that is two mrna vaccines and a booster shot or two johnson & johnson vaccines, and that needs to happen very quickly. >> why is it so important to have that made official because the messaging has been three shots are best, but why do they need to change the definition of fully vaccinated? >> yeah, i think, ana, for a couple of reasons. it will make my job a lot easier. when you tell somebody, listen, are you fully vaccinated? yeah, i've got my two shots. are you boosted? oh, no, not yet. i think what it does is gives the impression to the patient that it's an extra shot meaning i don't have to get it. it would be nice to get it. when you make it official and the guideline is official, patients then realize that, listen, this is like the hepatitis shot. i mean, we know for so long in the u.s. and all over the world that in order to be fully protected for some hepatitis vaccines you need to get three doses, measles, mumps and rubella is a three-dose vaccine so we need to call this a primary series shot number up, shot number two and shot number three. that's the only way that you can stay out of the hospital and be fully protected. >> quickly, doctor. do we know how long the protection lasts from the booster or that third shot? >> so that's the -- the big million dollar question. i think that since this pandemic is going on in realtime, we will know that as the months go by, but as dr. fauci had mentioned, one of the discussions, we hope that by getting this booster shot, in the only are your antibody levels much higher, 25 times higher but also the durability of the vaccine, how long does the advantages open last? that protection is also much longer. it might even be like some of the other illnesses, aprila, where you get the booster shot and you may not neath need another shot for years or like a couple of years. we don't know, but really the bottom line, this is so reashufrmgt you get boosted and pretty much all parameters improve in terms of hospitalizations and breakthrough infections. >> doctor, thanks so much. good to have you here. i really appreciate it. >> thank. back to washington now. an annual anti-abortion march is just getting under way. these marchers are encouraged by recent court decisions. you just yesterday the court rejected another attempt to block the texas law that bans abortions starting at around six weeks of pregnancy, and the justices are still expected to soon rule on a case in mississippi that could deny women not just in mississippi but really across the nation access to the procedure as at least a dozen states have preemptively passed so-called trigger laws to ban abortion if roe is overturn. cnn correspondent joe johns is covering this march. joe, what are you hearing from the people there? 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all of these questions, they're not partisan but tlir practical. people you look to are you, they're the people that they look to, are you. for real. you know there is no way to walk into the corner drug store without being accosted immediately as to what is going on, right. well, so you know what it means to solve real problems, to be held accountable for the people you serve. that is why when i put together my cabinet, i called on former mayors and i mean this sincerely. [ applause ] >> take a look. bill sec was a governor and marcia fudge a mayor. marty walsh, a mayor and pete buttigieg and a mayor and mitch landrieu to oversee the infrastructure law which is $200 billion because he knows how mayors get things done. [ applause ] i mean it. not a joke. because mayors know the measure of success isn't scoring partisan points, it is did you fix the problem. seriously, think about it. did you fix the problem? the infrastructure law is a perfect example of what we could achieve when we tackle problems the way mayors do. everybody in america, everybody in america knows we have fallen behind in infrastructure so we came together, democrats and republicans, and did something about it. a number of really brave -- and i'm not being facetious, brave republicans stood up and joined us in a bipartisan effort to get it done. and by the way, i want to thank you all. more than 360 of you signed a letter to send to me to try to get this thing passed, 360 of you. you lobbied congress to get it done. and the reason it got done, not a joke. it is the reason it got done. because of you. [ applause ] there are a lot of people that wanted to vote for it but they had pressure not to vote for it for political reasons. but because of you, they voted for it. we got it done. because they know, they know how it goes in your cities to determine how their states go. and now after yeeds of dead ends and broken promises, not only has infrastructure week finally arrived, but -- [ applause ] -- but because you look forward to an infrastructure decade. that is not hyperbole. back in 2009 when president obama asked me to lead the recovery effort, which was an $800 billion effort, and the first thing i did, i went to the mayors. not a joke. now most of you were too young to have been around in 2008. but, look, i spoke to over 200 mayors, putting that together. because of them, because of you, we came through that moment together. that is the same approach that mitch is taking, having been a former mayor with all of you. i know mitch has spoken to many of you already. and in just two months we've already seen this law start to make a real difference creating better jobs, transforming our community and in tangible ways. we have announced billion dollars of dollars for airports and water and sewage systems, high speed internet. funding to clean up the rivers in ohio, chemical plants and sites in florida and polluted lakes in michigan and dozens of other sites. the new program at cap and plug gas and oil wells to clean up the communities that they are affecting while good paying jobs and the folks who dug those wells when we needed them, they get paid well. well they're getting the same amount to plug those wells. it matters. it matters. a new initiative to bolster or energy grid with stronger transmission lines and towers to keep the power flowing. more reliably and consequently, more security energy supply. i've flown all over the world, all over the country these last, this last year and visiting sites that have been damaged by the consequences of environmental changes. you know, more -- more forest and homes and builds and businesses have been burned to the ground than make up if you take in the square miles than the entire state of new jersey. from new york all the way down to cape. that is how much has burned tolt ground. a lot of it because of a lack of