adversaries but everybody who interacted with president trump s adversaries. this was incredibly wide-ranging. and as adam schiff said, the scope is just incredible here. i m told, elliott, williams included in this list of targets were not just staffers for the untel intelligence committee but people outside that group as well. i m curious what the law is here. can a president tell his attorney general to access anybody s phone records if he says, hey this is something i want to look into. look, the president of the united states shouldn t be meddling in investigations. the justice department put in place by the president ought to he shouldn t be but did it all the time. come on out to be, right. it nhappened in plain view. now in a real universe where the government is functioning properly, if i m being investigated as a target and information that i ve been texting you or my mom or sister
very good friday morning you to. i m jim sciutto. poppy harlow has the day off. this morning, shocking new revelations involving the trump administration s efforts to track down leaks. cnn learned that former president trump s justice department seized records from apple for at least two members of the house intelligence committee, chairman adam schiff, representative eric swallow, both of whom were very publicly criticized by the president, the former president. but that defrt not stop there. the doj also seized data, the phone numbers dialed from their aides, staffers, family members, even a minor this tops off a stunning week of developments out of the justice department during trump s time in office. earlier this week, we learned the agency also pursued records from journalists at several major news organizations including our colleague cnn s
targets of this record seeking here, the subpoenas but also the gag orders were people that the president deliberately targeted and viewed as enemies. swalwell and schiff. but also investigations that the president did not like and sought in many ways to end. we learn from don mcgann s testimony earlier this week that the president did try to get him to fire via the then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the special counsel robert mueller. the fact it appears possibly that the entire intelligence committee may have been targeted here. we know specifically that eric swalwell s gave information to investigators. how much more of this committee and how wud ranging was this investigation? it s not just those exact
you can have great success rolling out the vaccine. the world is not really and america won t be back to business until the rest of the world is at a much different place than it is right now. the new numbers came out. they showed that covid-19 in 2021 is deadlier already than in all of 2020 and that s largely because of the rest of the world. so i feel like this is the most urgent international issue right now that there is. yeah. and viruses don t know borders, right? it s a global pandemic. susan glasser, thank you very much. thank you. coming up next, just a stunning abuse of power. new revelations that the justice department under former president trump targeted democratic lawmakers. who the president targeted himself publicly seizing data, that is the phone calls on themselves, their families, their staffers. what investigators were searching for and why democrats say it was no the just a political hbut in the words of
but also about the felt need of the republican party to use brute force in various ways to try to maintain power. john avalon, put this in context for us. the scope of this is clearly different, 100 accounts. two of them are sitting democratic lawmakers, public enemies of the president. staffers not involved with the intel committee or the russia investigation and at least one minor gets swooped up in this kind of dragnet. have we ever seen anything like that before? i think the family member part of this is important as well. that makes it resonate more. there will be a temptation to try to normalize this.