into the impact the supreme court s abortion decision could have on the november midterms. congressional democrats grow more optimistic about their chances to hold the majority. next hour, former president barack obama returns to the white house joined by michelle obama, her first trip back to the white house since she left there in 2017. it s the official unveiling of their white house portraits. we begin with justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, paul charlton and tracy wallner. ken, to you out of the gate. this is a significant development. walk us through what new we are learning. pete he , the post is saying there was a document referencing nuclear capabilities. they are aren t saying whether it s classified. no criticism. these are hard details. it s hard to know from this article how significant this document actually is. there are think tank reports that discussion countries nuclear defenses. the story goes into what we knew about the sensitivity
the florida property. for context, here s what the post says about what the documents found are typically handled. some of the seized documents u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, some members of his cabinet or near-cabinet level officials to know details of these special access programs and details of such classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis and not just top secret clearance. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key almost always in a secret, compartmentalized facility with a designated control officer on keep careful tabs on their location, but despite the fact that these documents are normally, typically out of reach, totally inaccessible to all, but a teeny, tiny handful of top government officials and kept in the most highly secure facilities that the u.s. government has ever created, these documents were sitting
what we are learning about what the doj was looking for on jeffrey clark s phone, plus the decision from trump s judge on the special master as the ex president threatens against potential indictment. if it happened, i think you would have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, we have never seen before. what kind of problems, mister president? i think he would have big problems. and 54 days to election day, new research on just how much abortion is animating and independents, when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. these days, it can be tough to keep track of all the people in donald trump s circle who have had their personal devices searched or seized in connection with one of the multiple ongoing investigations into the ex presidents wrongdoing. it feels like i follow this for a living and i am reminded or learn of a new one almost every day. recently, we have added an exceedingly colorful characters that group
you re gonna just have to watch the show to get that line. it s about four minutes away. it s going to be. here i m waiting. i ll be here for. it for more minutes, you hear. it thank, you alex. the trump appointed judge, and the appropriately titled case donald j trump against united states of america, gave donald trump just about everything else for. in an order appointing a special master to examine all of the evidence seized by the fbi from donald trump s florida residents. the one good thing in the judge s ruling is naming raymond diary as the special master in the case. he was the only possible special master who was acceptable to both sides, and if raymond diary is, actually does carry out his duties as the special master, he is, by all accounts, an honorable federal judge who would handle his responsibilities in this case honorably, and professionally, and as expeditiously and responsibly as possible. he is the only good thing in this judges ruling, which, of
if cruelty is the point, what is the cost? as the 11th hour gets underway this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. and we ve got breaking news tonight in the case of donald trump versus the usa, also known as the justice departments investigation of classified documents seized from the former guys florida club. tonight, judge aileen cannon at the doj s deadline and appointed a special master to go through the material that the fbi found during the search. judge raymond j. dearie submitted, by trump s legal team and agreed to by doj lawyers, we ll be getting the job. he now has until november 30th to complete his review. but judge aileen cannon denied a key doj request to continue reviewing classified material as part of its criminal investigation. the doj has said it would appeal the judges ruling to the 11th circuit, so stay tuned. meanwhile, nbc news has confirmed that trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, on your screen, right there, has com