de-escalate tensions and at least prepare ukraine for the potential risks that the u.s. sees are being posed by russia right now. because if you ll recall, the u.s. began sharing very detailed intelligence with ukraine very early on in this conflict, kind of trying to prepare them for a potential invasion. bianna, early on, they didn t have, the ukrainians, the same urgency that it appeared the u.s. had. now they all seem to be very much on the same page. and the timing is really important of these high-level u.s. officials flying to ukraine because it had been questioned as to mr. president zelensky was sidelined. now the attention turns to ukraine itself and meeting directly with the president. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox on capitol hill, officials say they expect strong recommendations to congress now after a bipartisan group of senators met with the president. what more do we know? reporter: well, it was a significant show of force. this bipartisan group of sev
kate. evan, thank you for laying that out for us. joining me right now is cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid and cnn senior legal analyst elie hoenig, former state and federal prosecutor. elie, let s start with the information coming from the new york attorney general investigation. what s the most important thing you see here in this response? kate, i think the big headline is that the new york attorney general has substantial evidence that there was not just fraud but major fraud worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. that is going to be relevant to the civil action that the attorney general is looking at right now and her effort to subpoena and depose donald trump and members of his family. it s really important to make sure people understand, that is separate from the criminal case. it s one thing to say i can demonstrate there was fraud in the trump organization and people were involved, to use let tisha james language.
jr. s fiancee kimberly guilfoyle, making this the first known subpoenas targeting members of the trump family. that s not all. the panel has issued subpoenas for rudy giuliani and others close to trump before, during and after january 6th. key players pushing the election fraud conspiracies. cnn s evan perez is watching this for us from washington. evan, what are they looking for? reporter: kate, let s take the subpoenas of the former president s lawyers first. those are very important subpoenas. in the case of rudy giuliani we know he was sort of the face of this effort to claim that there was fraud and that there was reason to doubt the victory of president biden. we know that these subpoenas we know the committee has testimony from other people that talk about, for instance, giuliani s push to seize he wanted the homeland security office to seize voting machines
and why he hasn t moved up to bigger fish. and here s what he told me. i think the attorney general needs to step up his game. remember that this country is teetering on edge. and i think he needs to reassure the american people that it s not just about whether or not you re going to do what you need to do, it s whether or not the american people will have confidence in the fact that you will do what needs to be done. quick response from you, congressman. we might go to this press conference. i value his independence and i m not going to question it. but, boy, jim, these crimes were completed in plain sight, and i hope that donald trump is treated no worse than any other defendant because of what he did but certainly should not be treated any better. okay, congressman, it was a quick conversation. we ll have you back on soon. let s go to new york for the
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