as so many have done? yeah, i think you will invoke any privilege he has to think of. realistically, now he has been told he s a target, he should. it would be foolish not to they ll try attorney-client privilege which i think is dubious because it does not apply to conversations that aren t he will take the fifth if he has to, look, it is his right to do so. and as you said, there are investigations swirling around. there came this moment lace last week when we were so deep in mar-a-lago discussions, which remains important, but at one point on thursday night. oh yeah, this january 6th also. i mean, let s not forget, how long ago does it seem that we were doing the january 6th hearings? it seems like a lifetime ago. but that stuff has not gone away. that will come back in georgia. that will come back with doj. that will come back with congress. it s nuts, let s talk of the department. the probable cause, right? but they are saying about the affidavit. it s a secret,
texts by tomorrow. just in time for what may be the summer finale of their public hearings. what we are learning about new witnesses, including somebody the committee we found out will meet with tomorrow. that s just coming in to us, all of it as across town in d.c. inside the building you re looking at live here, you ve got steve bannon in court, getting ready to learn which of his peers will decide whether he s guilty or not in his contempt of congress trial. also this hour, breaking new details out of indiana, with police revealing more about the shooter who went on a rampage inside a mall, and the man who stopped him. and our nbc news team dropping a new investigative piece out of texas. what one conservative group is blaming for a recent school shooting, not guns, per se, but what they call a woke teaching philosophy. we ll explain that later in the show. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me now are my correspondents. allie, let me start with you and this new report
forward. plus, it s called a substantial proposal, to bring to detained americans home from russia, and the battle to take back and major port city in ukraine, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re learning more tonight about the justice department s criminal ingrained to january 6th. we found out earlier today that federal prosecutors obtained a warrant to search the cell phone of trump lawyer john eastman, back on july 12th. you remember, he was the guy behind the plan to get mike pence to overturn joe biden s victory, by rejecting electors from certain states. eastman, if you recall, took the fifth 100 times during his deposition with a house select committee. meanwhile, there are new reports that former white house aide cassidy hutchinson is now cooperating with the justice department s investigation. hutchinson testified at one of the january 6th committee s public hearings last month. today, senator
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re learning more tonight about the justice department s criminal ingrained to january 6th. we found out earlier today that federal prosecutors obtained a warrant to search the cell phone of trump lawyer john eastman, back on july 12th. you remember, he was the guy behind the plan to get mike pence to overturn joe biden s victory, by rejecting electors from certain states. eastman, if you recall, took the fifth 100 times during his deposition with a house select committee. meanwhile, there are new reports that former white house aide cassidy hutchinson is now cooperating with the justice department s investigation. hutchinson testified at one of the january 6th committee s public hearings last month. today, senators were asked about the doj leading up to january 6th, and here s what they said. the mounting evidence in the investigation is well warranted, and they re all to be serious consideration. because the walls are cl
very clear, too, that no one, no one, including a president of the united states, is above the law. by the way, today is the six-year anniversary of that speech in indiana. happy anniversary to the president, as the fbi goes through his documents this morning. what a long road it s been. you know, he actually, i guess, in 2018, willie, he passed a law. he signed a law that actually made the protection of classified material even stronger. that is a good thing to do. it is a good thing to do. he said in the campaign law and order party. he was going to protect all classified information. so says it in the campaign. willie, he actually passes legislation. kept his word. he signs it, comes into law. that the penalties for not protecting classified information going to be even tougher because of hillary clinton s emails. yeah, remember the context of that speech six years ago was all about hillary clinton and the emails and the private server that she had.