Late yesterday, President Trump signed executive orders targeting two former officials who criticized him.

Escalating his retribution campaign, the president directed the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security official, and Christopher Krebs, a top cybersecurity official overseeing elections.

Both political appointees during Trump's first term.

The president accused Taylor without evidence of treason.

I think it's a very important case, and I think he's guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth.

But we'll find out.

This guy, Krebs was saying, oh, the election was great. It was a very corrupt election.

They used COVID to cheat. And we're going to find out about this guy, too.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, has been following the latest and joins me now.

So, Laura, let's just start with these executive orders. Break down for us. What exactly

they do? So the executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor strip security clearances

from both of those former officials. They also revoke the clearances for their work associates.

For Taylor, that means people that work at University of Pennsylvania and for Krebs, anyone

at the company that he works at Sentinel 1.

And then finally, Trump ordered the Justice Department and Homeland Security to launch investigations into Krebs and Taylor's tenure during his first administration.

Now, that last phenomenon, that's escalation.

Lawyers that I talked to said that there is no prior target of President Trump

that has been subject to an investigation by the Justice Department that potentially

threatens criminal penalties. So Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, why is the president targeting

these two men specifically? As you noted, Omna, both of these men have been critical of President

Trump's conduct, be it during the first term,

and since then. And Trump's executive order specifically targets Chris Krebs for telling the

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