cnn's paula reed has more on the extraordinary development. >> reporter: cnn learned in february of 2018, the justice department requested records from apple for then white house counsel don mcgann and his wife. to underscore what an extraordinary it was. he was the top lawyer for the president of the united states. this request was kept secret. apple was barred from disclosing this request. the justice department -- repeatedly to keep it under wraps. at this point, cnn doesn't know if he was targeted individually as a target of an investigation or if he was swept up into an investigation into somebody else. a source familiar tells cnn that former attorney general jeff ses sessions, who had been leading the justice department at the time, and the deputy rod