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that trump subpoenaed apple for records of more than 100 accounts. among them, two democrats, adam schiff and eric swalwell including their staff and family members, including a minor. there wug a gage order that expired three times after trump left office. this was all part f an effort by president trump to find out who was behind the reports of contacts between trump associates and russia. i can t go into who received these subpoenas or whose records were sought. i can t say that it was extraordinarily broad, people having nothing to do with, you know, the intelligence matters that are at least being reported on. it just shows what a broad fishing expedition it was. okay. so two top democrats are now calling on president trump s former a.g.s bill barr and jeff sessions to testify about this. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been digging into this story. what do we know at this point, evan. part of what we know happened is the inspector general ....
and a leading democracy. at every point along the way, we re going to make it clear that the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future. the focus for biden, a big focus is zeroing in on re-establishing the international community s respect. particularly in the wake of former president trump s go it alone america first approach. but the president s biggest meeting will not come until next week. that s when he sits down face-to-face with russian president vladimir putin. president biden already sending a clear message that his relationship with the russian leader will be very different from his predecessors. this as putin delivers a message of his own. there s clearly a lot to get to. our team is following all of the developments, unfolding overseas. let s begin with chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny in falmouth, england. president biden meets ....
in gaza. what was the evidence behind israel s claims that hamas was in the building. we have new information and we re going to take you inside of the meeting between the a.p. and the israeli ambassador to the u.s. with reps from both sides coming up. plus propublica bombshell about the taxes of american billionaires, but what about the course of the information. we re going to get into the ethic debate with a top editor from propublica, coming up. but first gagging the news media. there is a big meeting coming you on monday at the justice department and it effects all of us because it is about the first amendment. for several weeks we ve learned how the trump era doj spied on the press and pursued leakers to do so. first we learned about the secret seizing of phone records from reporters and then the gag orders against the new york times and cnn. and now there are still so many questions out there. recenttories have also shown how democrats on capitol hill were ....
talk about timing, because back home in washington his domestic agenda is teetering. let s start with cnn s white house correspondent, she s in england. aur let, what can you tell us about the president s key meetings coming up? well, ana, president biden is heading here to europe with the message that america is committed to its allies, and he s also putting his adversaries on notice culminating with the high stakes meeting with russian president vladimir putin a week from today. the president is on his way to the united kingdom where he will first speak to service members here before traveling to the cornwall area with a series of meetings with allies, and first meeting with uk prime minister boris johnson and then the g7 summit meeting in the next few days. the president meeting with those allies to try and present a united front as they are trying to counter some of the actions taken by countries like china and russia. the president, in his sit-down with russian ....
stelter. evan, take us thus what happened here. alisyn and victor, until now we haven t been able to tell this story. until just a short while ago, this has been sealed under a federal court order, preventing cnn s lawyers from telling the story of what happens a months-long protracted legal for months, belonging to cnn s pentagon correspondent barbara starr. this was a fight going on in secret over months. it continued even while a judge told the justice department that, quote, their reasoning was speculative and stun unanchored. it begins in july of 2020, when the justice department when cnn s legal department receives an order from a judge, from the justice department saying that they want two months of barbara starr s e-mail records from 2017. now, this includes at the time a gag order that prevented david vigilante, our lawyer, from discussion this issue with a limited number of people. in november of 2020, cnn goes to the court and asks for this order to be ....