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. it s 4:00 in the east. happy friday. it is just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that completely up ended women s health and american politics. of course we re talking about the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade and eliminating abortion access and abortion rights for millions of american women. looking back it is hard to understate the legacy of that dobbs decision. first there is, of course, the rulings near immediate impact on women and reproductive health care in america. the new york times reports this. in the year since roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country s patchwork of abortion access. at least 61 clinics, planned parenthood facilities, and doctors offices stopped offering abortions in the last year. most were in the 14 states that banned abortion outright, but the uncertainty surrounding laws in several other states also caused providesers there to shutdown. all o ....
2020 and january 2021. this pressure campaign on pence to overturn the lelection what understand instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the state. as the former president returned to washington since leading office, we ll have some of what he said shortly. first what merrick garland told lester holt when asked when indicting a former president and possible presidential candidate again might tear the country apart. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. reporter: so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule or how you move forward or don t move forward? i ....
electors and sending electors back to the states, end quote. in addition, doj investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff mark meadows. and a key point there, the post reports the doj received phone records in april from key trump officials and aides, signaling the criminal probe could be further along amid criticism the justice department not taking swift enough action. attorney general merrick garland responding to that criticism yesterday, making clear that anyone criminally responsible will be held accountable. the revelations coming as the new york times reports on previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers, admitting their fake electors scheme was indeed fake. they used the word fake. a lot to get to. let s bring in cnn s kara scannell for more on the latest news signaling doj, the scope of doj s investigations. kara, it is one thing to look at people around ....
unprecedented step possibly, at least leaving the door open prosecuting trump saying no one is above the law. the federal reserve is meeting today. experts predict it could raise make its second significant rate hike in just six weeks. first, let s get more on the reports that the doj is asking questions about trump s actions around the january 6th insurrection. what more are we learning? reporter: good morning. what we re learning is from the washington post reporting that they ve asked a number of questions about trump s role. the department of justice and witnesses of trump s meetings, his pressure campaign on mike pence, as well as his role and knowledge of the fake elector scheme. this comes as doj has already interviewed key people in pence s orbit, two of his aides, mark short and greg jacob. those interviews before the grand jury occurred last week, a couple of weeks back for jacob. that s a significant step. it comes as garland, the attorney general ....
on the factions of former president trump. key witnesses include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role the lawyers played. washington post reporting that investigators have emails and phone records of key officials and aides who served in the trump white house, including former chief of staff mark meadows. so until now there was almost no sign that the federal investigation had touched on the actions of the president himself. that is what makes these reports so significant. it changes the entire framing of what we know that the federal government, the department of justice, is doing here. and it comes at the same time that the new york times has this new report about so-called fake elector scheme, previously undisclosed emails that reveal trump advisers actually use the word fake. joining us now is david loughlin, former senior justice department official and former prosecutor, al ....