as much as possible, operating in the background and then disaster happens. between the potential rail strike and this accident, it just blow this whole thing open and now we are acutely aware of all the risk involved. thank you, my friend, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home after the fbi search the esophagus. the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward.
do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home, after the fbi search it last august? the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward. as you know, the fbi raided donald trump s mar-a-lago home and subsequent to that raid, there have been multiple leaks about what was discovered there, including a photograph of documents discovered there. did you know about the leaks? the photograph was a filing in court in response to a motion
newly appointed proprieor of that material as the new speaker of the house. that s despite the fact that he pointedly refused a lawful congressional subpoena from the 1/6 select committee last year. now in defending his decision to share 41,000 hours of previously unreleased footage exclusively with far-right insurrection-friendly personality tucker carlson, mccarthy is showing americans he either does not understand or does not care about the potential risk that decision presents. speaking with the washington post, mccarthy suggests this, that the public fury over the selective release isn t really about egregious security concerns. in fact, it s about jealous, he insisted on the part of the media at the heart of the outrage. hang on. it gets better. today politico is first to report that house republicans, many of whom have framed the 1/6 insurrection as the defendants in those criminal cases as victims of a political attack are now moving to provide those defendants acce
hi to everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. happy friday. what began at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, an affair between a porn star and a business mogul, now has the potential to throw the entire country into unchartered territory with donald trump reportedly on the verge of becoming the first ex-president to be criminally indicted. as we reported on this program yesterday, blockbuster reporting in the new york times reveals that the manhattan d.a. has invited donald trump to testify before a grand jury in the probe examining hush money payments to adult actress stormy daniels. the new york times notes that such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney alvin bragg to notify a potential department without ultimately seeking charges against him. as for whether donald trump will take bragg up on his offer, the washington post quotes a trump associate saying that everyone will advise him not to go in. here is ter
democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee