are fighting the right-wing culture war. but is it what parents want or students need? plus, the cdc admits a lot went wrong it in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. no surprise there. with the monkeypox outbreak happening now, the big question is, are the changes coming too late? big questions as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i stephanie am ruhle. there is breaking news tonight from the new york times, concerning the justice department s investigation into the role of donald trump and his allies played in the days ahead of the capital riot. the times says prosecutors are focusing on critical trump white house records, and quote, have issued a grand jury subpoena to the national archives, for all the documents the agency provided to a parallel house select committee inquiry. according to a copy of the subpoena pained by the new york times, those materials included records from the files of mr. trump s top aides, his daily
expected to plead guilty to tax evasion. as we wait for a judge to determine whether to unseal the raid on mar-a-lago. lawmakers are calling on the white house to appoint a special envoy to haiti as the humanitarian crisis grows. out west, the urgent actions being taken to prevent what officials warn could be a catastrophic collapse of the colorado river system. we begin with the latest on the legal troubles for former president donald trump and his close associates. any minute now, former trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to charges of not paying taxes on more than $1.7 million in perks, such as rent, car payments and school tuition. the plea deal calls for him to testify against the trump organization at trial. this comes just hours before a federal judge in west palm beach, florida, will be hearing arguments on whether to unseal the affidavit used to justify the fbi s search of the former president s mar-a-lago r
warrant of mar-a-lago will hear arguments over whether to release the affidavit behind it. it s arguably the most important part of that warrant. the doj is fighting its release, citing highly sensitive information tied to a national security investigation. the former president wants it unsealed. we ll explore the implications of today s decision by the judge. we re going to go ahead and start with today s hearing over the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit. msnbc s cal perry is outside the courthouse, ken dilanian also with us, and also with us, phil rucker, and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official. both are msnbc contributors. thanks for joining me. ken, first to you. i want to talk about former trump organization ceo allen weisselberg, just officially pleading guilty to the charges against him. what happened in court and what happens for him next? reporter: well, he s going to serve five months at rikers island jail in new york city, lindsey,
in support of the request for a search warrant that gave the fbi legal license to enter mrara lag on. on one side of this dispute the doj strenuously opposing the release and on the other side donald trump and a media of organizations including nbc news urging that the affidavit be made public. there was little to no chance that the judge reinhart would approve the release of the affidavit and at the conclusion of today s hearing that judge reinhart was, in fact, open to releasing a redacted version of it and asked the department of justice to submit a proposal for what a redacted version might look like by next thursday at which point he will make his ruling and it will feature counterintelligence jay brat and he attended the team deeply involved in this case. he told the court that the investigation is still in its early stages and that the affidavit needed to be contained under wraps because it contained sensitive information in a unique case with national security overton
party. i ll tell you what it says, election deniers and conspiracy theorists, it s clearly their party now. tonight rudy giuliani under oath in atlanta as his legal situation looks increasingly precarious. reportedly donald trump is having trouble finding top-notch legal assistance. governor desantis suspended him for speaking his mind about abortion. now warren is fighting back, filing a lawsuit against desantis. we begin the reid out with the downfall of liz cheney. she was defeated by her former ally and friend harriet hageman. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power, you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us, and you will do what is in our best interests. if you don t, we will fire you. [ cheers and applause ] okay. so when liz cheney, the daughter of the two-term republican vice president dick cheney last run in 2020, she won by a resounding 73%. her loss yesterday was a stinging rebuke for cheney, whose family has deep r