evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are going to get to the political news and a few minutes but we want to begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news. elon musk now officially in charge of twitter the takeover is complete. with us tonight to discuss, elizabeth dwoskin, the silicon valley correspondent for the washington post. she broke the story tonight. and cara swisher, all things on elon musk. and editor of new york magazine. and with karen swisher. my friend, terry swisher, it s official, musk is in, top executives are out on the far-right is rejoicing. what are we in for? that kind of says it all, i think it is going to be very difficult. he has bought it for three times what it is worth. you could turn it around, he has at a big it s a mount everest of tournaments. that s for sure. and he certainly got to bring in some people who are decent at figuring out a business plan for the company. he may not care but he still doesn t have unlimited funds. so
through the roof. since then, we ve learned a lot about the screw-ups in the early days, and we knew from the start the official stats were like joe biden counting his grandchildren. the numbers didn t add up. but now we re seeing some people admit the truth as the media finally lets them speak the truth without banning them from twitter or worse get interviewed by joy reid. specifically doctors are now admitting how much hospitals overcounted the number of covid deaths and hospitalizations. it s the subject of the latest chap chapter of you ve got to be kidding me. a washington post columnist acknowledged that we re overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. that s a problem. greg: you think so? when did you reach this conclusion? when do you remember when? take almost three years to fess up, hell, you re worse than hunter denying the truth like it was a baby you made with a stripper. only this hottest headline could have been published in the spring of
soon as we get that adds up we re gonna go to. it mike, i will start to the control room for second. we think the president is coming out now. all right. got it, as soon as he comes out it to. we do in a move on to the general six hearings. this hour we re taking an in-depth look at this weeks generous committee hearing. potentially the final one. members made it clear in this hearing, in case it wasn t, before this all boils down to one individual. the central cause of january 6th was one man. donald trump. who many others followed. that none of this would ve happened without him. he was personally substantially vault in all of it they laid out in meticulous detail a plan for the former president began long before january six, even long before election day 2020. . in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump s former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won th
there is new information tonight about the statement to mar-a-lago. the former president asked one of his lawyers back in february to tell the national archives everything they wanted had been returned. but the lawyer refused because he wasn t sure it was true. the washington post also says that it was trump himself who packed up the boxes that will return to the national archives in january. we re going to bring in britney while, also former deputy assistant harry lippman and former assistants prosecutor nick akerman. good evening, one and all. nick, let s start with you. what does this new reporting mean for donald trump and the classified documents. it is all bad news. it shows that he is that guy who packed the documents, for starters. he knew it was there, he knew what he was taking. he knew he had classified documents. he can t blame it on anyone else. and then he tries to get a lawyer to life for him and he refuses. there are going to be at least two or three of dona
from msnbc world headquarters to new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour. the fallout grows on the fbi search in mar-a-lago. as we wait to see if donald trump s legal team filed a motion for a special master to review the evidence seized the department of justice is nearing a major deadline to propose redactions for the affidavit season that search. earlier today, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke on winning the balance of the public s right to know versus the government s concerns. i think the question is, at one point in time does the public get to see that affidavit? i think the justice department makes a powerful case that at the early stage of the investigation, when it could jeopardize the pursuit of justice, this is not the time to be giving essentially the trump lawyers a roadmap into how to intimidate witnesses or how to derail illegitimate investigation. this all comes as a new nbc news poll out today shows americ