Special counsel Jack Smith expressed interest in audio tapes made by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while working for the alt-right network, the attorneys said.
Grossberg's attorney, Jerry Philippatos, told CNN on Wednesday that he had provided the special counsel team with a spreadsheet detailing about 90 audio recordings in Grossberg's possession. Negotiations are underway for Grossberg to hand Smith over to a team of federal prosecutors investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election.
"We're negotiating a subpoena for Abby's electronic records so they can get what they want," Philip said.
He first expressed interest in his advisers in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday.
Federal investigators were initially contacted several weeks ago after some of the footage appeared in the news, Philippos said. He added that Grossberg is committed to cooperating fully with law enforcement, which could include interviews with the FBI or meeting with other investigators.
"They contacted us after some of the tapes were released," Philippatos said, referring to footage of Fox anchor Maria Batirama discussing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election with Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. What on earth do they say? "air". Something
Fox News fired Grossberg last month after he made explosive allegations against the network. Her suit alleges that Fox's lawyers induced her to testify in her defamation suit against Dominion and that she was the target of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Fox vehemently denies the allegations and says the suit is "full of false allegations against Fox and our employees."
A representative of the Special Prosecutor's Office declined to comment.
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In light of that, MSNBC aired a new episode of one of the Grossberg tapes on Tuesday. Previously unknown audio tapes show Republican Senator Ted Cruz speaking with Fox News anchor Maria Batirama about his plan to delay the confirmation of Joe Biden in Congress on January 6, 2021.
In a recorded conversation with Barthiram, Cruz revealed his plan to delay his certification, creating a "commission" to further investigate allegations of voter fraud. The Texas senator proposed the commission in a press conference the day the audio recording was made.
"When we looked at the Jan. 6 report, all of the options that were discussed were problematic. So, I want to find a way that is consistent with the Constitution and the law and that takes these very serious claims," Cruz said on a Jan. 2, 2021, MSNBC audio broadcast.
Cruz tweeted about the tapes late Tuesday, echoing what he said on national television and during a Senate hearing.
This is what @msnbc [clown] said quietly on the phone…the next morning on national TV! Then four days later he spoke again in the Senate.
At the time, several of Cruz's Republican allies in the Senate, who had been working for months to overturn Trump's 2020 election results, were concerned about the plan to delay his certification.
"I am very concerned about how my friend Ted is handling this effort," Utah Sen. Mike Lee wrote to White House chief executive Mark Meadows in a text message previously obtained by CNN. "It doesn't help the president."
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