Rights, the Attorney General says the department will double the staff in its voting Rights Division and use all tools at its disposal to protect the right to vote. Seeking new laws and where we see violations, we will not hesitate to act. We need congress to pass as one and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act which would provide the department with the tools it needs. And we are also following developments overseas from england where President Biden and leaders from the other advanced economies are attending a reception after a day filled with discussions on a series of important issues including ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and tackling global climate change. But a lot of attention is focused on the president s upcoming meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Mr. President , what is your message to putin . Tell you after i deliver it. Nbc News Keir simmons sat down with vladimir Putin Today for his first u. S. Television interview in tHree years, which will air next week. All
Congressman Eric Swalwell confirmed that the records were seized. Heres where the reporting is more disturbing. Prosecutors were hunting for the sources of Media News reports of contacts with russia. The Da The and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks. Investigators debated whether they had hit a Dead End. Some discussed closing the inquiry. They took this unprecedented investigative the ep when Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of asking the Fbi Director James Comey to let Mike Flynn go. Mike flynn took the unprecedented step as the sitting national Security Adviser to lie to the fbi about the conversations with russian ambassador kissly yak. Trump lying about conversations with Vladimir Putin. The sidelines of a global summit. Unprecedented conduct all around contacts between trump figures and russia. All of it as Robert Mueller investigating the ties to russia. So doj at this time crosses this red line. They subpoena apple for the Phone Records and they find
As donald trump railed geshs the critics in congress and lobbed unfounded attacks against them for leaking damaging information about him the doj hunted democratic members of the intelligence committee s phone and email records and those of staff and family. in an unprecedented leak investigation. the new york times citing two officials and others briefed reporting as the justice department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information the r it took a highly unusual step, subpoenaing apple for data from the accounts of at least two democrats on the house intelligence committee. one of them was a minor. all told the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and 18 including those of representative schiff of california then the top democrat and now the chairman.