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
crossing the southern border soars. and as some republican governors resort to political stunts with people s lives, we ll talk about that. later this morning, former secretary of state hillary clinton will be our guest. we look forward to talking with her as well. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 16th. along with joe, willie and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. you know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. we re not always that mindful. we re going to be talking about that. we re going to be talking about the crisis at the southern border, and by the way, i understand every t
hi everyone, i m alicia menendez. new evidence from the january six committee this weekend. revealing the trump administration spoke to a rioter during the capitol attack. ex committee staff refers to share details of that call. needing a real aha moment it is connected to the rioters phone it s a big aha moment, what s in the white house was calling one of the riders while the right was going on? and you know who both ends of that call? i only know one and of the i don t know the white house and. an aha moment indeed, the january six committee confirms that this happened. it s not possessing the investigation months ago. since the departure they have earned out all of the leads and landed that they tell it about the committee. it comes out just before the next hearing. joining me, now democratic congressman of calm california. he s a former impeachment manager. his member the judiciary committee. congressman, what are you expecting from this committee hearing?
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans when it comes to crime the call to refund the police. could he be risking use of the unprecedented rate on mar-a-lago to score political points ahead of the midterms? will it work? our bream team panel. a university refusing to allow an lgbt club on campus. they say it s an issue of religious liberty. bombshell claims by the justice department in the formal objection to the trump team request for the neutral party to look to the documents taken from mar-a-lago. bill melugin. good evening. this doj filing came in moments ago. the doj filed this as their latest response tonight to former president trump s lawsuit over the fbi search of his home in their filing tonight, doj is saying that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the federal probe into the classified documents that were taken by the fbi from mar-a-lago. specifically here s what doj is writing. in particular the government developed evidence that a search l
home of haven t kamala harris. here s how harris sees the surge now. two million people crossed the border for the first time ever. you re confident this border is secure. we have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation including ours and our administration. martha: we ll dig into that with florida congressman michael waltz. first, bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas where he s talked about this story in detail for months. bill? martha, good afternoon to you. texas governor greg abbott says those comments from v.p. harris that the border is secure is part of the reason why he sent the migrants to her residence in washington d.c. his troopers are having to deal with this crisis day in and day out. take a look at there video as we were embedded with troopers in uvalde. a man was flying through red lights, pulls off the side of the road and everybody bails out of the vehicle including the illegals. they go running into the brush, some r