former president? joining us now is devlin barrett, the lead byline on the washington post story yesterday, which first broke the news that the justice department is branching out it s january six investigation. good to see you, thank you for joining us. your reporting is that the subpoena requests have gone out to what your officials described as officials and former president donald trump s orbit. would you take that to mean? who are these officials, could they include members of his administration, close associates, financial backers? i think the way to think about this set of information demands that they re looking for whatever one s role was in january six. remember, there s a lot of different things happening on january 6th and part of the challenge for investigators is unpacking all the different pieces and seeing how those different pieces work together. obviously, i pink this was a long awaited step, obviously
department doing about the numerous, far reaching efforts to try and overturn the legitimate presidential election of 2020? over the last 24 hours, we may have started to get answers. the washington post was the first to break the news yesterday that the justice department is expanding its probe, reporting in the past two months, a federal grand jury has issued subpoena requests to some officials and former president donald trump s orbit who assisted in planning, funding and executing the january 6th rally. the new york times then followed with its own story, noting that the doj has substantially widened its investigation. quote, seeking investigation about people more closely tied to president trump. according to grand jury subpoenas that were reviewed by the new york times, and now encompasses the possible involvement of other government officials and trump s attempts to obstruct the certification of biden s victory, and the
push by some trump allies to promote slates of fake electors, and quote. what do we make about these two new reports detailing an expansion of the justice department s investigation, and could it reach as high as the former president? joining us now is devlin barrett, the lead byline on the washington post story yesterday, which first broke the news that the justice department is branching out it s january six investigation. good to see you, thank you for joining us. your reporting is that the subpoena requests have gone out to what your officials described as officials and former president donald trump s orbit. would you take that to mean? who are these officials, could they include members of his administration, close associates, financial backers? i think the way to think about this set of information demands that they re looking for whatever one s role was in january six.
january 6th committee subpoenaed the retired army colonel contributed to a powerpoint presentation how to overturn the 2020 election results. the subpoena requests appeared for the january 6 commission. waldron worked with trump s outside legal team and circulated and briefed. meadows included a version of that provided if the powerpoint. waldron told the post he visited the white house and met with meadows maybe eight to ten times in the run up to the insurrection. so jackie, they re looking clearly for all of these
subpoena deadlines as i mentioned today, yesterday, coming up down the road. and is the committee going to go through this process with every single one of them while at the same time as ken mentioned, they have spoken with over 200 people behind the scenes, 200 people that we don t yet know about. and they are hinting at the information they ve already gathered in these subpoena requests to these individuals saying they ve obtained some of this information through their own investigation. and there s a big question if this is just the subpoenas are just to prove a point, to put these names out in the media to know that they are topics of interest or to actually get information, hallie. betsey, yet you re reporting i know today in politico that the bannon actions that the committee has taken against steve bannon seem to have done very little at least so far in resolving these standoffs so to speak with others in former president trump s in circle who have also been subpoenaed.