Its just some of what Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his family have endured just for standing up to trumps lies about the election. He is my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight the breaking news. Cnn is learning just how broad the Trump Justice departments subpoena to apple was. They demanded 73 Phone Numbers and 36 Email Addresses. We are just getting this information right now from apple and just learning that the Doj Under Trump subpoenaed microsoft as well for the data of a Capitol Hill staffer. This all comes after the revelation that the Justice Department subpoenaed apple for data from accounts belonging to at least two democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, congressman Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell as well as their staff, family members, even a minor. The goal was to track down who was leaking classified information about contacts between trump associates and russia. And the whole investigation wa
Jessica schneider. Were learning more and more right now about former Attorney General Barrs Role in the trump Administrations Targeting of democratic lawmakers. Reporter we are. My colleagues are hearing from people familiar with Barrs Role in these investigations and theyre stressing that this probe targeting democratic lawmakers, it was more than a year old when barr became Attorney General. They say that barr came in urging prosecutors to complete investigations quickly, but that barr does not recall the specifics of this probe involving democrats Adam Schiff and eric swalwell. Tonight, though, lawmakers want answers directly from barr as several investigations are being launched. Tonight, democrats are demanding former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr testify under oath after revelations of secret subpoenas served on apple to obtain meta data. The justice Departments Inspector general issuing its own review of records of two of former President Trumps most outspoken a
About what happened and hits on the underlying notion that when the president of the united states talks about using the justice department or using his powers to go after his rivals, disclosures about investigations will be negatively impacted by that regardless of what went into those decisions. and here we are, frank figliuzzi, four years of covering a president who all four of us have been here in this time period talking about the latest attack against rod rosenstein or against don mcgahn or his interview where he says to a fox news anchor, i hate flippers after michael cohen cooperated with the government. everything out in the public. and to mike schmidt s point and to the reporting that we ve cited, there are certainly explanations, but none that tie all this together. even an inadvertent collection of a sitting white house counsel who s the chief witness in the obstruction probe against donald trump, who is the single conduit between the justice department
Be tested in the courts. it may have to be the justice department that, under what s left of the voting rights act and other federal legislation, has to take these states to court and see if they can get some favorable court rulings against what is clearly an assault on our democracy. because i m not as optimistic as i would like to be that the senate is going to move on either s 1 or s-4 or any of these voting rights bills that need to be passed. i m just not very optimistic about that right now. so, claire, we re left to understand that joe manchin and others, you ve made clear, it s not just him, care more about the filibuster than our democracy. what happens next? well, i m not sure i d put it that way. i don t think they care more
Investigation that has been referred, but at the same time, no explanation from the justice department about how this happened. mike schmidt, if you could just take us under the hood in terms of how this works, i mean and i understand the responsibility of giving the most generous explanation to our viewers, so we ll do that. inadvertently, a sweep of seized data that you subpoena apple for collects the sitting white house counsel. that job is supposed to be the only human being who talks to the united states justice department during a four-year presidential term. surely someone at the united states justice department became aware of it at some point, if not around the original subpoena, which had to have been signed by someone at the justice department, then around the three or four gag orders that were renewed based on your reporting. what kind of people what