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They initially went to apple in 2018? >> i don't know. what i do know is the people who ended up getting targeted were democrats on the house intelligence committee, as well as staff of the house intelligence committee, as well as family members of -- and personal office staff. it wasn't some random group of meet. it was a collection of people. >> if this is a case where doj was doing a leak investigation involving, say, a staffer on the committee, and as part of that, they were able to get this, involving swalwell and schiff, for example. what do you think about that? does that raise question...

We know that's happened, regardless of why they opened up these investigations. we do have that information. certainty there were some unprecedented moves from doj, and many more questions lingering tonight. congressman, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you so much, pamela. and coming up, joining me to discuss is former u.s. attorney and cnn legal analyst preet bharara. what was your reaction? >> on certain grounds, i'm on the same page with the congressman. it happened very quickly. that tells you something about the seriousness with which people are taking the questions that have ...

Get to the bottom of what's going on in their own justice department. if they don't know about what's going on in this investigation, what else do they not know about? >> it certainly raises a lot of questions. we've been trying to get answer to say those questions tonight. is there anything else you would like to add about this, congressman? and is the ig investigation sufficient for you? or would you like to see more? >> i think the ig investigation is a good start, but there really needs to be a thorough accounting for what is happening at the department of justice. unfortunately what we sa...

From members of congress, and anyone having to do with congress, but is that an option for you to think about, that maybe the biden doj didn't know? >> first of all, with regard to sessions and barr, i would like to see them come to congress and testify under oath that they had no idea what was going on. i think that their line prosecutors in the -- mr. ben benewto was a gangland prosecutor. these need to come before congress and testify as to what happened. i think really people need to be held accountable and guardrails need to be put in place to prevent this from happening again. as to whet...

Those are very rigorous time-consuming, laborious investigations. what i think is interesting, and you alluded to it in the interview, not only does the prior deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, but also bill barr claimed they did not know that it reached the commune cakes of two sitting u.s. congressmen on the intelligence committee. that has to be explained. it seems to be at odd with some of the specific reporting we got from the "new york times." if you take them at their word they didn't know, the question is, was it innocent? was someone going rogue? was there overreached by someone ...