showdown with donald trump over those classified documents that were seized from his club mar-a-lago. the department of justice has given judge alien cannon until tomorrow to decide whether to restore their access to the classified material. if she refuses, doj lawyers say they will go to the 11th circuit court of appeals. judge cannon temporarily blocked the doj s access to the documents until a special master was assigned. on tuesday, the department told a judge any delay in the case will cause quote, irreparable harm to the government and the public. meanwhile, the january 6th congressional committee has been busy gathering new evidence. the committee subpoenaed secret service for records after learning some agency text messages from january 5th and sixth went missing. today, one panel member told our nicole wallace they are now getting a lot of new information. do you have new evidence that was not at your disposal at the time of the last public hearing and it, numerato
been saying. this is an issue that most americans agree on, so why the holdup? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we have breaking news tonight. striking new signs that merrick garland s justice department has intensified its january 6th investigation, in a big way. nbc news has learned that the department of justice has issued about 40 subpoenas over the last week, related to the actions of the former president, his allies, and their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one source says that has his phone seized as evidence last week. he all but admitted it to our colleague earlier tonight. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors to win the challenges would be heard, and would be successful. a lawyer for ex nypd commissioner, bernard kerik, confirmed that he received a subpoena last week. it s been confirmed that he worked on efforts to but of course, as we all know
interview since having a stroke. an update on his health, and how his campaign against trump backed doctor oz is going. but we start this evening s broadcast with breaking news in the investigation at mar-a-lago. the next phase of the battle between the justice department and all trump will take place in a florida courtroom tomorrow. both soils will appear before a trump appointed judge, alien cannon. she will be the one to decide whether to grant the former president s plea for a special master to go through those documents that were seized in his florida home. just a few hours ago, his legal team filed its response to the department of justices objections to having a third party review those documents, citing the need for a quote, independent attorney client privilege assessments and executive privilege determinations. in a court filing, revealed at this very hour last night, the justice department said a special master was not needed and revealed a whole lot of damning new
this month. until a neutral special master can be appointed. the attorneys assert the sets of documents taken from the residence were presumptively covered by executive privilege and the trump team wants a detailed list of the documents taken and the former president, wants them back. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight with this late-breaking story. good evening, david. this is a significant filing. in the filing, the former president of the united states is telling federal prosecutors hands off when it comes to dealing with evidence in this case until a special master is appointed. if a special master is a.pointed. also important to note the judge randomly assigned to handle this case, judge alien cannon. a judge then president donald trump appointed to the bench two years ago. former president donald trump late this afternoon requesting a neutral third party special master to review the search of his home two weeks ago today. a special mast
coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump. and laura jarrett, as we were going to break, he started talking about one of the crucial roles that the judge assigned to this case, alien cannon. one of the crucial things she can oversee which is the sufficient evidence, which evidence is allowing into. this talk to me a little bit more about what she might want to stop from being presented as evidence? so one of the things we now have a better view of is exactly what prosecutors wanted evan corcoran for. we knew that they were able to pierce through the attorney client privilege, which is viewed as sacrosanct, that is not a small thing to be able to pierce that privilege. in order to do that, they have to show that the advice was used to for the crime, and we now understand much better than i think we did even before, there was so much great reporting. obviously, trump s attorneys want to keep that out. that is very damning evidence,