justice department to do that. that's the context here in which tonight story breaks. just within the last hour, the new york times has broken a whole new level of the story. and again, it's not sort of a shocking revelation about the trump justice department, this is something as far as we can tell that's never been done before and u.s. government and has profound implications for the separation of powers between the branches of government that we've got. this is the headline tonight in the new york times. hunting leaks, trump officials focused on democrats and congress. meaning, members of congress who are democrats. quote, as the justice department investigated who was behind the leaks of classified information early in the trump administration, it took a highly usual step -- prosecutors subpoenaed apple for data from the accounts of at least two democratic members of congress on the house intelligence committee, and staffers, and family members. one of those members was a