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Subpoenaed apple in early 2018 for records of more than 100 accounts. Among them, chairman adam schiff and congressman eric swalwell, both democrats on the house intel committee, as well as their staffs and their family members, including a minor. Prosecutors also obtained a gag order so apple could not disclose this and it was renewed three times before trump left office. Apple was only able to notify the people involved in may. This was all part of an effort by President Trump to find who was behind the reports of contacts between Trump Associates in russia and two Top Senate Democrats are calling on trumps former ags, bill barr and Jeff Sessions. Congressman mike quigley just told cnns manu raju this. I assumed a hostile government would do Something Like this. I just didnt think it would be our own hostile government. Jessica schneider joins us now. Ag garland didnt address this in a speech he just gave. What is happening at the doj . Its surprising, victor, because Merrick Garland did speak this afternoon just about 2 00. We expected that he would address this issue, to talk maybe more about what the Department Of Justice is doing in light of the revelations of these secret subpoenas. In his about half hour of remarks on voting rights, either during it, before or after, Merrick Garland made no mention of all of these revelations. But what we do know is a list of investigations are being lined up so the Justice Departments Inspector General announcing they will look into these subpoenas used to obtain records from not only Members Of Congress, but also members of the media we previously reported had their phone and email records obtained, including our own grubauer correspondent, barbara starr. So, this Ig Investigation Will Dig into these issues about whether doj under Attorney General Sessions or Attorney General barr whether it complied with its own policy and procedures. Theres that on the doj side. That on the other side, in congress, Chuck Schumer and dick durbin are announcing Jeff Sessions and bill barr to testify under oath. They issued this statement. Former Attorneys Barr and sessions and other officials involved must testify before the Senate Judiciary committee under oath. If they refuse, they are subject to being subpoenaed and compelled to testify under oath. In addition, the Justice Department must provide information and answers to the judiciary committee, which will vigorously investigate this abuse of power. We have reached out to former Attorney Generals barr and sessions and have not heard back. Sources told us Jeff Sessions was not involved in any of these subpoenas related to the House Intelligence Committee. As youll remember, he made a broad recusal from the russia investigation. Because this investigation of the House Intelligence Committee members or staff or even their family members, this was all related to any possible leaks related to trump aide contacts with russian officials. So, Jeff Sessions, a source that is familiar with this, says he was recused from this and not involved. But a lot still to uncover as we see from these multiple investigations being announced or even requested from lawmakers. Victor and alisyn . Jessica, thank you so much. Lets bring in now jennifer rogers, worth cnn legal analyst, both former federal prosecutors and Political Correspondent dana bash. You have a response from former ag bill barr. What is he saying . He spoke to politico. In this article he said that he was not aware of any congressmans records being sought in a leak case. He added to politico that trump never encouraged him to zero in on democratic lawmakers who reportedly became targets of trumps push to unmask leakers. Also said that the former President Trump was not aware of who we were looking at in any of the cases. I never discussed leak cases with trump. He didnt really ask me any of the specifics. So hes trying to distance himself and the former president from what we now know appeared to be unprecedented cases where the Justice Department went in and got records from these Members Of Congress. Its one thing, of course, for the former Attorney General to say that to a news organization. We welcome him to come on this one as well, but as you just heard from jessica, the Members Of Congress who are very upset about this and want to do their oversight want them to come and do it under oath. You worked for an Attorney General. Is that plausible, what bill barr has just said to politico, that he had no idea that any democrats records would be collected . No, thats completely implausible. As dana just said, its one thing to say that to the media. Its another to say it under oath. When i worked for ms. Reno, anything that was sensitive like that, lawmakers, reporters, it had to be run up the chain to the highest levels and in addition to that, at every level it would have been met with skepticism and rigorous scrutiny because this is exactly the kind of thing you want to the guard against, even the appearance of the department being used as a political weapon. So, jennifer, to you. Does this sound like the donald trump that we know, that donald trump would have never asked bill barr about these investigations and we remember the testimony from james comey about asking about some of these investigations. What do you hear in this response from bill barr . Well, you know, victor, i would agree that it doesnt sound very donald trump like to stay out of it. On the other hand, there was no secret what he wanted to happen. I mean, bill barr didnt have to have an explicit conversation with the president to know that he would be in favor of and encouraging of seeking records against his political enemies. You know, maybe it was unspoken, but we all know what donald trump wanted his Department Of Justice to do and it sounds like in this instance, bill barrs Department Of Justice was willing to do that. Dana, we just played in the last hour that moment between bill barr and then senator Kamala Harris where it was at the Senate Judiciary committee, she asked him, has anybody asked you to open an investigation. He stammered and stumbled and looked like a Deer In The Headlights throughout the entire answer. Never said no. Asked her to repeat it. Asked what suggested means. Now you see it in a totally new light. He couldnt say no to that under oath. Its so true. We knew it was a moment at the time because of the strong questioning and more importantly because he didnt give a straight answer at all. And now it appears we know, despite the fact that in this new politico interview, the former Attorney General is claiming he didnt know anything about this. I obviously defer to the experts on our panel who actually have the experience being in Justice Departments where sensitive notions like investigating Members Of Congress or maybe even seizing the records that they have and those of their children, including a minor child, i mean, how do you not do that . The only potential answer is to have deniability. Even that is hard to swallow. Merrick garland just spoke about a very important topic, protecting voting rights. But consider all that is happening in and around his department, the coverage of it, he didnt say anything about this. No comment at all. Are you surprised by that . I am surprised by that. And i have Great Respect for Attorney General garland as well as his staff, including lisa monaco. But they need to step forward on this. They need to make a statement that at the very least they are going to vigorously support the Inspector General investigation, which has limited, victor. He can only compel current employees. So, they can look at policies, talk to current employees. But the big fish, barr himself, that that has to come from congress or potential criminal investigation with a grand jury. And what does that mean, jennifer . If people want to get barr again, under oath, which is where he fumbled through that question from Kamala Harris, how will that happen now . Well, the oig cant do it. It has to be congress. We all know how ineffectual congress was during the last administration in terms of getting people to comply with their subpoenas and before that their request to testify. But if they want to know the answer to this, if we all want to know the answer to this, they have to stand firm, subpoena him and fight it in court to get him in the chair to answer those questions under oath. But can he say these are privileged conversations . You know, i had conversations with the president and i dont need to disclose those . Well, he can try. He can try for an executive privilege. Remember, he said there werent any conversations, even though that wasnt under oath. Thats going to be hard for him to take that line here. You know, i would expect him to continue the tack hes taken which is they didnt discuss it and try to weez weasel around in which context they did or didnt come up to something similar to that topic. Dana, Congressional Republicans have tried to perpetuate this line of deep sat inside of the Department Of Justice that even former President Biden was using the Department Of Justice to go after republicans. After this reporting, were not hearing anything from top republicans. We are. Were hearing the sound of silence, victor. And its deafening. Its deafening. Thats something. Silence is an answer in some cases. Exactly. It is deafening. Because no matter how under the spell or, you know, need of approval from the former president because they need his supporters in order to get reelected, some of these republicans are, that form of hypocrisy is too overwhelming to ignore. Surely rand paul, i mean, he hates surveillance. Im sure hes incensed today. Hasnt congressman Rand Paul Put out a strongly worded statement, dana . I havent seen one from the senator. In all fairness, i can see somebody like him who tends to be, despite his very close relationship with the former president , he tends to be pretty consistent on these issues. Its a really good question when hes going to put out a statement. Jennifer, im considering trying to think of being a member on capitol hill only for this example, this question. Good, good. Stay right here in this seat. But to now know that swalwell and schiff were their information was sought. There was this gag order. Now members want to know from apple, who else was covered by this. Could there be more gag orders out there that have not yet expired . Of course. I think in some ways were still at the tip of the iceberg in terms of abuses of the Trump Administration that are just being uncovered as these things expire, as the Biden Administration is taking a look at them and seeing whether they want to renew them. You know, Biden Administration and ag garland are not going to come out and start telling us all about these investigations, confidential investigations that were going on. There has to be some precipitating factor. In this case it was the expiration of the gag order. I think there are going to be more things like this that keep coming out. Were going to learn, unfortunately, more about the abuses of authority under the last administration. Thank you all very much for helping us try to understand whats happening here. Still ahead, we will speak to president nixons white House Counsel about todays Breaking News and how he thinks it compares to watergate. 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Now to the second part, can they get something done . Well, thats the tricky question. I mean, there is no questioning the difference in the mood. You see these leaders visibly much more relaxed around each other. Theres more of a atmosphere. This isnt more about the legacy of President Trump. This is about a year and a half of Zoom Diplomacy and the limitation of conversing digitally. Now they stand, elbow bumping each other and we saw emmanuel macron, the french president , putting his arm around President Biden. These are the moments, the small details of Body Language that really facilitate an environment in which diplomacy can be done. Theyve made some commitments already, talking about 1 billion covid19 vaccines to be given out across poorer countries in the world. But there is still a lot of tricky and thorny issues ahead. Theyre navigating a huge amount of complex topics, climate change, and the rising threat of autocracies, russia, china, how the g7 can still be relevant as a voice and bulwark against thorn tarynism. Remember the photo of President Trump sitting at the table with his arms cross and a petulent stance and Angela Merkel leaning over him. He kept it interesting at these meetings. I want to ask you, not about the photo optics, but about the biden putin meeting. Some washington insiders thought it was even ill ideadvised for President Biden to sit down with him. What do you think about this . On your first, i was there for the last g7 and, yeah, it was not boring but that was not a good thing. Everyone there was walking on egg shells, waiting for trump to do something crazy and he did something crazy about every single time he opened his mouth and it affected the Stock Markets and diplomatic issues in several countries. I think all of them are happy with a little bit of boring diplomacy after four years of that. It wasnt good for america. It wasnt good for the g7. I was there. Im telling you, it was crazy. But this is actually much better. When biden does sit down with vladimir putin, next week in geneva, syria will be on the agenda. Lots of things will be on the agenda. While were here focused on ransomware and our own politics, theres a lot of things going on in the u. S. russia relationship. What i say is if they can make progress on syria, that would be a good thing. We need a complex u. S. Russia Policy where we stand up to the things they do bad but also negotiate with them where we have a shared interest and millions of syrians are suffering because russia is about to cut off all the aid routes. They want to cut off the aid to starving people in syria. The only person who can really solve that is joe biden. So, it will be the agenda. Lets hope they come to some agreement because we have to both talk with russia and also work with them sometimes. Thats another thing we had trouble doing over the last four years. Hopefully that will change now. Clarissa, one topic, maybe one of many that the kremlin says will not be on the table, Opposition Leader alexei navalny. They said thats not something theyre willing to discuss, President Putin will discuss with President Biden. We know thats something the white house wants to discuss. Is this an impasse here . Can any progress be made . I wouldnt be too optimistic about Progress Being made but i would be certain President Biden will raise the issue of alexei navalny, will raise the issue of human rights, will raise the issue of russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine because he has made such a commitment to try and reinstate International Norms and reinstate these traditional liberal democratic values. The russians have been very clear about it. Theyre not interested in having a conversation about anything that they regard as being under the purview of internal domestic affairs. We heard that echoed again today. Cnns Matthew Chance sat down with putins spokesperson. He said again there was nothing to talk about. He doesnt say navalnys name. They never say navalnys name. Theres nothing to talk about the prisoner because it doesnt concern the u. S. , but he did also say, sitting down with cnns Matthew Chance, that this is important that this conversation takes place because the relationship is so poor that potentially, even if there arent any substantial deliverables as a result of this summit, at least potentially it could prevent a further d degridation of the relationship. They would like to find some common areas, josh is perhaps right, maybe syria is one of them. Some common area where the two leaders can try to Work Together to keep the relationship on the tracks. Maybe bringing home those two americans. Who have been on cnn talking about their loved ones who are detained in russia. Clarissa ward, josh rogin, thank you. Were pushing forward on the Breaking News. The developments around Donald Trumps Justice Department and accessing phone records. Not just of journalists but also Members Of Congress, their staff, their families. An investigation has been launched into that. Former nixon white House Counsel john dean talks with us live about it. Controversy at the new york Mayoral Debate after one candidate says she cant answer whether the nypd should keep their guns. How shes trying to clarify today. Uh, they are a little tight. Like, too tight . Might just need to break em in a little bit. You dont want em too loose. For those who were born to ride theres progressive. With 24 7 roadside assistance. Okay. Think im gonna wear these home. Excellent choice. Some say this is my greatest challenge ever. With 24 7 roadside assistance. But ive seen centuries of this. 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Joining us now, someone who remembers that scandal well, cnn distributor john dean. He was president nixons white House Counsel and also with us cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. Watergate is also seen as the mother of all political scandals. From what we know about the Bombshell Revelations of what the Trump Department of justice was collecting in terms of democrats, now we know, and reporters, phone records, et cetera, and gag orders, how does this compare to watergate . There is a slight comparison with reporters. There is no comparison at all with Members Of Congress. I can recall no instance where nixon went after a member of congress using anything improper or even in the slightest bit devious. With reporters, he did. He wiretapped reporters at one point. When it was legal, he had the director of the fbi, j. Edgar hoover, tap reporters and white house staff as well, trying to track down leaks. When that became illegal by a ruling of the supreme court, he pulled the taps. So he did stay within the law on that, but he was aggressive in going after leaks, no question. Gloria, i know i revisited this a few times, but republicans abandoned nixon, right . Weve got now republicans who are sticking with President Trump it. Two impeachments and no condemnation from republicans after were getting this reporting. Yeah. Not only no condemnation here but no calls for clarification, no calls for further investigation. You have an Inspector General now thats going to be looking at this. No republican saying, thats exactly what we need. We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to have bill barr, the former Attorney General, testify. We need to have Jeff Sessions testify. The democrats are calling for that. But you would expect, even in the age of trump, that there would be some republicans saying, look, this cannot stand, this kind of investigation, spying, on democrats who were investigating the president. I mean, the guardrails are off and at some point republicans have to say, this is not good for american democracy, and so lets just get to the bottom of it. John, because youve seen some version of this movie before and lived it, what is about to happen next or what should happen next . Well, the counsel, the Inspector General law, is actually a postwatergate law. That does give some apparatus to effectively investigate it internally. What happens, whats needed is a congressional inquiry where they can, indeed, Order Sessions and barr to come before congress and explain what they did or didnt do. Whether theyll do that or not, i dont know. Ive been surprised this congress hasnt done more to put some teeth in its subpoena power. Its one of the weaknesses in the separation of powers where the executive branch, even former members of the executive branch, can stonewall almost indefinitely. We just saw mcgahn after two years finally come to the hill. So, thats what needs to happen. Thats what normally would happen. We dont know what will happen in this instance yet. John, are you surprised that were here . Congressman schiff said the norms that were put in place after the Nixon Administration were supposed to protect against Something Like this, but even they could not stand up to the Trump Administration. Are you surprised were having this conversation . I am. Actually, that norm hes referring to, directly involved me. It was the fact that i had gone to the prosecutors early and talked to them and nixon wanted to know what i had told them and how it affected him as well as his top aides, his Chief Of Staff and his top domestic adviser. And he was pumping the head of the criminal division, brought him over to the white house, sat him down and intimidated him into talking about what i was talking about. Thats the basis of the norm. Thats a nonowhere a president becomes directly involved in a case. So i have a special sensitivity to that norm. Im sorry to see it violated as it has been by trump on a number of occasions. And the interesting thing here is that donald trump never made any secret, as you all know, of who he wanted investigated. He wanted adam schiff investigated, he wanted andy mccabe investigated, he he said it publicly that schiff was the leaker, for example. So, barr, who told politico today that he didnt have any direct conversations with the. The about this, didnt have to because the president told everyone or anyone who would listen that this is what he wanted. So what barr did is he took a defunct investigation, it was over under sessions, they never found anything, and he reinvigorated it and then appointed someone to be in charge of it because the president of the United States still was not happy. And, you know, that is just an exploitation of the Justice Department and i think the Congress Needs to get to the bottom of it. The question is, once they get to the bottom of it, what can they actually do about it . Who does bill barr answer to at this point as a private citizen . John, gloria borger, thank you for pointing out the remaining questions i should say, the questions just beginning today. Next, a Bipartisan Group of senators gets to a deal on infrastructure. The white house is interested, but does it have the votes . Plus, florida becomes the latest state to ban Critical Race Theory from its classrooms. Yes, please neuriva. Think bigger. At aspen dental, Today Is The Day to take back your smile. Why wait . 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That was a key Sticking Point between republican negotiators and the white house that caused the president to walk away from those talks with Shelley Moore capito earlier this week. One of the Question Marks we still have is whether or not democrats would be able to rally around a proposal that five of their more moderate members came to a consensus on with republican counterparts. One of the concerns you have heard behind the scenes and publicly from democrats right now is that they are worried that the people who are negotiating this in the middle, people like senator joe manchin, people like cinema of arizona, that those members are not going to embrace a broader, robust Infrastructure Plan they think is necessary. Thats why youre seeing someone like Chuck Schumer argue, this is now moving on two tracks. He believes that a bipartisan deal could be reached potentially with changes that need to be made to this Bipartisan Groups proposal. In addition, democrats could move forward on their own bill using that process known as reconciliation. That, of course, allows democrats to pass a bill with just a simple majority. But you need all of your democratic members to do that. And i think that is where the challenge really lies on this moment. What does the white house say . Well, the white house says this is a good start but they have some questions about exactly what this proposal will include. They were briefed yesterday from some democratic members, but right now what weve seen is these top lines. What you dont see is a breakdown specifically of all of the pay fors on paper nor do you see where exactly this money is going to go. Whether thats rail or highways. Those kind of Sticking Points can be major once theyre revealed to the rest of the caucus. All right. Cautious optimism around this plan. Lauren fox, thanks so much. Just into cnn, the Biden Administration says it will return 2 billion of federal money that had been set aside to build the border wall, but the governor of texas says hes going to keep building the border wall there along his states border. I will announce next week the plan for the state of texas to begin building the border wall in the state of texas. re commito making it accessible. Because we believe everybody deserves a chance. And sometimes one chance is all it takes to change everything. See what Scholarship Opportunities you may qualify for at phoenix. Edu oh dont burn down the duplex. vo nobody dreams in conventional thinking. Terminix. It didnt get us to the moon. Dont burn down the duplex. It doesnt ring the bell on wall street. Or disrupt the status quo. Tmobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help you realize new possibilities. Like our new work from anywhere solutions, so your teams can collaborate almost anywhere. Plus Customer Experience that finds solutions in the moment. And firstclass benefits, like 5g with every plan. Network, support and value without any tradeoffs. Thats tmobile for business. Thats why at americas beverage companies, our bottles are made to be remade. Not all plastic is the same. Were carefully designing our bottles to be one hundred percent recyclable, including the caps. Theyre collected and separated from other plastics, so they can be turned back into material that we use to make new bottles. That completes the circle, and reduces plastic waste. Please help us get every bottle back. So alisyn and i as you can see are on from 2 00 to 4 00 here on the east coast and we have two to four things to talk about with cnn political commentator erroll lewis. Hes also on sunday and last night the candidates turned out for what turn out to be a contentious debate. One major topic about how to tackle a rise in slept crime while confronting incidents of Police Brutality and excessive force. One of the candidates refused to say whether she would let new York Police Officers keep their guns. Listen to this. Will you take the guns away from the nypd . I am not prepared to make that decision in a debate. I am going to have a civilian commissioner and commission that will hold the Police Accountable to make sure were safe from crime and also from police violence. Wiley tried to clarify her statement saying no one is seriously talking about taking guns away from cops. Of course, i dont support that. Let bring in erroll, was that flatfooted . The question kind of came out of left field. There are no serious proposals on the table and by that i mean it hasnt been talked about in prior debates. Theres been dozens of debates. It hasnt been talked about on the oped pages or in the forums where serious decisions get made and so she i think like a lawyer was being a little bit cautious and saying lets think about it and talk about it, but in the current crime wave that were experiencing here in the city its not necessarily what poem want to hear. They want to hear that every candidate for mayor is as upset as most new yorkers are about the rising tide of shootings and of homicides so she kind of missed out on half a news cycle based on that one answer. She was seeing some momentum after the endorsement from alexandria ocasiocortez. Is that flattened now . What it reflects is she is trying to get the progressive base of the Democratic Party on her side and get them mobilized, and its not that easy because thats the wing of the party where proposals like, hey, maybe we should be more like london and take the guns away from the cops are actually getting kicked around, but they are getting kicked around in relatively narrow forums. Were on the big stage. Early voting is beginning this weekend, and the whole thing is going to be over by the 22nd so its a very inopportune time to try to tackle something this weighty and this meaty in this environment. Very difficult, but the progressives dont have a better candidate right now. They have only a handful of candidates. Two others they have kind of walked away from. Mia wily is trying to consolidate them. Part of the politics of the moment. Not all of our viewers are in new york, but as goes new york certainly with gun violence and how they will tackle it, it could be instructive for whats happening around to the country as well. Governor greg abbott announced a crackdown on illegal immigration and promised to build a wall along the border with mexico. Hes up for reelection. Will sounding President Trump like help in texas which as you know has shifting demographics. It will help him in the primary. It will become problematic immediately thereafter, and it will also be a problem to the extent that people try to think this through. Its not as if donald trump didnt try to build a wall on the border. He tried everything he could possibly think of. Theres a lot of real issues with trying to do it, whether youre the federal government and certainly if youre a state government. The leading problem, of course, is that the rio grande kind of changes shapes. Thats the nature of a natural boundary. The other problem, of course, is there are private landowners on both sides of the boarder who really have to determine whether or not they are going to let anybody, including Governor Abbott build a fence on their property or a wall so hes right back where he started not to mention the enormous cost of making any of this happen so its it works great as a campaign promise. Perhaps he hose going to use it the way donald trump did as kind of a significant fire of where he stand on immigration, but not really intending to build it at all. Well see how far that goes. Lets go to florida now and the Board Of Education voted to ban critical race theyry in public schools. The rule was originally proposed by governor ron desantis. Listen to the governor. Its wrong. It should not be taught in schools, and we need to teach people the truth. We need to teach them about the history of this country, and that includes everything thats happened, but you cant lie and you cant promote your ideology and false narratives. I mean, they will attack cops with this type of ideology in schools and meanwhile they have like 87 of the kids arent even literate in some of these schools, so it shows you they are not trying to educate. They are trying to indoctrinate. Were not going to let that come to florida. So desantis might be setting himself up for a run for president , but were seeing this across the country. Why is this the issue that the Republican Party is choosing . The reason they have chosen it is that its a way to attack civil rights. Its a way to attack anybody who is concerned about changing the narrative of race, and its a way to do it without anybody knowing anything about what critical race theyre actually, is right . That man you had on your screen has never read a word of it. This is an interesting deep kind of legal theory, kind of hard to get your hand around it. I was on a College Campus when they were sort of developing a lot of it. Its real, really tough. Its been out there for 20 years. Its not like its some new thing. But its in vogue now. They throw it out there like a buzzword. Yes. Understanding that no one is going to read any of the academic papers that constitute Critical Race Theory. And the gift of it is that racism is systemic. In the legal system which is where this comes from, in the legal system there are lots of different points where if you look at how laws were creed, how they were interpreted and how judges interpreted them over the centuries you see systematic bias rather than to say theres a legal principle out there. Well, it was invented in the 19th century. There may have been problems with it. We need to examine it. It was an academic theory. Ron desantis doesnt know or care about any of that. 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