Department knew or didnt know. Cnns Paula Reid is following the developments. This story has a lot of moving parts. Connect the dots for us. We know that in February Of 2018 the Justice Department requested from Apple Records from then white House Council Don Mcgann and his wife. But to underscore how extraordinary a request that is, at the time mcgann was the top lawyer for the president of the united states. And apple was barred from disclosing this request until may of this year. So that means the Justice Department had to go back to court repeatedly to keep this A Secret. Now a source familiar tells cnn that then Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein were not aware of this request. You and i covered the Justice Department for a long time. Clearly something here does not add up. How is it possible that the two top justice officials would not be aware of an extraordinary request like this . At this point we dont know if he is the target of a situation or swept up in an in
showing that she carries on no matter what, and this is really a personal moment for president biden. it s shaping up to be a rough summer in the skies. at least 2,900 reports of unruly behavior by passengers this year. the number of people killed by guns in america continue to rise this weekend as there s a scourge of mass shootings. i am pamela brown. you are live in the cnn newsroom this sunday. president biden might be in brussels tonight but his mind is likely in geneva, as the president gets ready to meet with the american allies at the nato summit tomorrow. both biden and putin can agree on one thing ahead of the meeting, u.s./russia relations are strained. i think he s right. it s a low point. it depends on how he responds to acting consistent with international norms, which in many cases he has not. senior white house correspondent, phil mattingly, joins us live from pwrbrussels. phil, what is the president saying about the likely tension meeting coming u
becomes the oldest person in space. he s telling us what it felt like. he s a rocket man. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our money lead. president biden just announced new measures to try to fix a global supply chain crisis. the moves are in partnership, he says, with companies such as walmart, target and home depot. it s an effort to relieve backlogs that are threatening holiday shopping season and the nation s economic recovery. gas, milk, rent, kids shoes have all seen prices soar over the past year. that s in large part due to the pandemic, as well as not enough workers, as well as a cargo ship bottleneck out in california. but it also has to do with america s high inflation rate right now. and now as cnn s phil mattingly reports, president biden is racing to try to address yet another crisis. today we have some good news. we ll help speed up the delivery of goods all across america. reporter: facing mounting disruptions and
president. this at the same time as hunter was serving on the board of burisma. so republicans are now demanding the national archives turn them over in the interest of transparency. let s bring in nancy mace. congress woman, thanks for being with me this afternoon. i want to make sure that i understand the fundamental issue that the committee has right now with this tranche of newly discovered e-mails. seems to me that the biggest grievance is with the timing. the e-mails coincide a time when president biden was serving as vice president managing the u.s.-ukraine bilateral relationship at the same time as his son was taking in money from a ukrainian energy company. the timing is at the crux of this. is that right? absolutely. that s just the start of it. thank you, gillian, for having me on this afternoon. president biden has thrown his country under the bus. he s been forced to lie about his activities with his son, hunter and his son s businesses every time he s been ask
sunday at ten on cnn the collapsing case against joe biden, republicans effort to impeach the president may be running out of steam today. they re grilling president biden s brother behind closed doors. a critical interview for an impeachment push. that s now on life support. and yet another mid-air scare this time i m passengers tackling amount of the ground after he tries to open an emergency door. midflight, details on what happened new charges his filed just moments ago after an 11 year-old girl was found dead in texas. more on the man now facing capital murder charges in her death are following these major developing stories he s in many more all coming in right here to cnn news central republicans impeachment inquiry into president biden is potentially hanging by a thread after one of their core allegations of a biden bribery scheme appears to have been completely made up. the claims came from fbi and form an alexander smirnoff, the gop spent months touting his cr