the washington post. the post reporting the justice department is investigating former president trump s actions in its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the paper reports, quote, prosecutors who were questioning witnesses before a grand jury, including two top aides to vice president mike pence, have asked in recent days about conversations with trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors for some states to that joe biden won. in addition, justice department investigators back in april received phone records of key officials at aides in the trump administration including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. earlier tonight, our friends carol leonnig broke down some of a reporting and describes what federal prosecutors wanted to know. what we learned is that they are asking most of their questions at least so far, about donald trump. the questions are overwhelmingly are, what did
inflation. take a look and i agree s with what chairman paul said last week that theeek number one threat is the strengthon in strength that we build is inflation. look, i know you ve got to be frustrating. no, i can taste it for inflation and it s going to take any responsibility or policy. i think our policy is to helppde nots hurt. think about think about what they say the vast majority of the of the of the economist think that this is going to be a real tough problem to solve. but it s not because of spending screaming at the tv. how have they helped joe now since joe has clearly lost any ability to communicate becauseog of this cognitive decline? allow me to m trye to translate for him. there s no plan to curb inflation, by the way. it s notay transitory either. there s no plan to lower gas prices, is no plan to spur on economic growth or as bloomberg reported, quote, inside the administration there is a sense of frustration, doom and some say magical thinking about
Is the easiest way to read do sugar how wed really happy with jesse l. Martin, sundays at nine on cnn this is cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we are following the breaking news at College Campuses across the United States protests against the war in gaza, the Idf Activity In Gaza are up, universities are cracking down many schools bringing in Law Enforcement officials to curve the demonstrations which the students insist are peaceful so as a factual matter, they have at times been disruptive, some have been antisemitic. Cnns ed lavendera is watching all of this unfold on one particular campus, university of texas, austin were texas state police. Im moved in on protesters earlier, made some arrests and what is the latest there now hey, jake was the camp just moments ago . Hi, has essentially been cleared out of all of the protesters are letter photographer kind of stepping here through the crowd and kind of get a shot of what is left there were dozens of protes
not be lawyers much longer. yeah, that s right, it is again revealing about the behavior by all of the people involved at the scheme who all throughout, were incredibly reckless about the facts. were incredibly reckless about the law. showed no concern at all for the impact on the country. and at the bottom, maybe they knew that this game that they were trying to perpetrate was against the law. and these aren t the first lawyers to have admitted that if you remember, john eastman, when he sat in the oval office, was forced to admit on questioning and argument from mike pence s lawyer, that his scheme was not actually legal. so you have all of these attorneys who were trying to put together this game to steal an election, that they knew was not legal, and if i were any one of them, i would be very worried about the gran jury looking at my behavior next. me too. joyce, matt, ryan, phil, don t go anywhere, this news is too big to leave there. after the break, we are gonna talk about t
what about the lies? what about the conspiracy theories? i mean, are you just going to sit there? they just it was this is partisan. this is a partisan a partisan position. it is not so that we re not picking a judge here. you re picking a press secretary flack for the president president who has a difficult time. so youou say that i want to be clear. ec sot you re saying we should be able to lie? we should expect that she will lie like you and you should expect her to be a politician. she s a g politician. and the fact that no, no, no, no, no, of course you help me h not this isn t no, that s notli being political . that s outrighttth lying. there s a big difference to me, joe , if those tweets showns, that you showed in your your monologue aren t the first three or four questions to green jump here in her first day on the job, then we have no hope for t the white house press corps outside of producing jackie heidrick, she launched,