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