Feds seize phone of Trump’s election attorney

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Former President Trump’s election attorney John Eastman says the FBI seized his phone last week as the Department of Justice continues their investigations related to January 6. Elie Honig is a CNN Senior Legal Analyst and a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He tells AC360 what hoops investigators have to jump through to do something like this. Plus, a Russian airstrike hit a shopping mall in central Ukraine just a day after Moscow’s forces also targeted the capital city of Kyiv. Anderson Cooper checks in with Olena Gnes, the mother of three who’s been in Kyiv since Russia invaded. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, we begin tonight with two developments.
0:03.0	The January 6 investigation, the first, concerns John Eastman, the Trump lawyer who cooked up
0:07.3	the scheme to overturn the election.
0:09.4	The one former White House attorney Eric Hirschman told to quote, get a great f-ing criminal
0:13.5	defense lawyer.
0:14.9	We learned tonight that FBI has seized his phone.
0:17.3	Eastman, as you know, did nothing to dispel suspicion when he went before the select committee
0:21.3	took the fifth over and over again.
0:39.0	Dr. Eastman, did you advise the President of the United States that the Vice President
0:46.0	could reject a lecture from seven states and declare that the President had been
0:50.2	realized?
0:51.2	Dr. Eastman, the first sentence of the memo starts off by saying seven states have transmitted
0:59.7	dual slates of lectures to the President of the Senate.
1:03.1	Is that statement in this memo true?
1:10.1	The President Trump authorized you to discuss publicly your January 4, 2021 conversation
1:15.2	with him.
1:16.2	So is it your position that you can discuss in the media direct conversations you have
1:25.8	with the President of the United States, but you will not discuss those same conversations
1:30.4	with this committee?
1:31.4	Okay.
1:33.2	The second development tonight concerns the select committee and it is a surprise.
1:37.0	The committee today announcing it will hold proceedings tomorrow in which it would quote
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