John Obkursk, Cuomo, and welcome to Primetime, we have breaking news on our watch.

Claims of deep state intrusion, claims of abuse of the government being used for political

purpose, they were more true than we knew.

Trump was making those claims, but he was also the one doing what he was complaining about.

The New York Times nails the Trump administration for going to extremes to track down leaks

in the early years of the term, hunting for sources behind media reports about contacts between

Trump associates and Russia, contacts that happened.

The Times says the Trump 3.0J, under Jeff Sessions, took the extraordinary step of having prosecutors

subpoena apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence

Committee, along with their aides, their family members, and even kids.

And they put a gag order on Apple.

So Apple wasn't allowed to tell anybody about what was going on, even though they were main

members of this government.

Now, one of them was Adam Schiff, who's now chairman of the Intel Committee.

He ultimately led the prosecution in Trump's first impeachment.

He is coming on this show in a moment, but this is much bigger than him.

He tells the Times the subpoenas for data on him and others were used as a cudgel against his

political opponents, Trump's political opponents, and members of the media.

The politicization of the department and the attacks on the rule of law are among the most

dangerous assaults on our democracy carried out by a former president.

Remember, we know that Trump took this stuff very seriously because he complained about it all the

time. This is the deep state. What was that about? It was using those who are behind the machinery

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