they are about female empowerment. they are making a lot of great strides. but there is always room for improvement, especially when you re making comment for kids. thank you both very much. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, january 26th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. breaking overnight, a cnn exclusive. the justice department confirming that prosecutors are looking into a specific event from the plot to overturn the 2020 election. deputy attorney general lisa monaco tells cnn that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former president trump the winner of seven states that he lost. on the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certifications has been reported. we ve received those referrals. our prosecutors are looking at those. and i can t say anything more in ongoing investigations. but more broad
, laura coates. cnn broke this yesterday. lisa monaco confirming there is an investigation, an active investigation into these fake electoral college certificates, which were something we know that rudy giuliani and others, senior players in trump world, were involved with. so how significant is the fact that we now know such an investigation exists? this is extremely significant. and one that should actually be happening. remember, it is not just the hypothetical conversations happening in some back room or war room about i wonder what it would look like if you tried to overturn an election or derail a certification process. you would actual steps, actual overt steps in the action and trying to create the perception that the lawful, the real legitimate slate of electors were not actually that. and so you had but for the actions and decision of the then vice president mike pence to not follow the advice, not to go through this, even having him on the floor that day, used p
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The floor that day, used particular language as you recall, john, to suggest that there was essentially two different sets and this is what was going to be looked at and this was legitimate, it was far more nefarious and thought out and strategic than we even believed. so it is right that in a country where we have laws against trying to interfere with elections, laws against fraudulent activity, at the doj would look at this issue. can i ask you, the fact that the deputy attorney general lisa monaco said this to evan perez in this terrific interview, this was something that cnn broke, the fact that she said it doesn t seem accidental. it seems she wouldn t have answered the question unless she wanted that information out there, the whole doj did. why would they want this public at this point? well, think about the idea of how the public is viewing the what perceives as the contemplative action of the department of justice. questions about the length of the investigation, is anyt
To create bogus certifications that were ultimately sent to the national archives. of course, the scheme did not work. then-vice president mike pence certified the election results on january 6th after that process was interrupted by the violent attack on the capitol. but this slate of electors has become not only a big focus for the house select committee but for other investigators as well. as you noted, the deputy attorney general, lisa monaco, told our colleague evan perez the justice department is looking into this effort to see if there was any criminal wrongdoing. now, erin, today the committee also subpoenaed former-white house press secretary judd deer. the committee saying he has firsthand knowledge of trump s behavior before and during the january 6th attack on the capitol, and specifically they want to speak with him about a january 5th meeting in the oval office where trump allegedly asked what are your ideas for getting the rinos, of course republicans in name only, to do