from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it s over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like power, water, cell phone service. here is fema director demon chris just short time ago. we have well over 2 million people without power immediately following the storm and the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are compl
records related to non official messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts. this has acquired, under the presidential act records act. join me now is msnbc news digital justice reporter riley and reuben of the rachel reuben show. thanks to you about being for being here. the article says it will control solid with the doj trump is himself not named in this letter, how imaging is this new development and what will recovery action look like? we have reaction let s take a second. the recovery action will look like and what it has looked like so far against peter navarro. last week there was news at the department justice had action against peter navarro, not in terms of the criminal case that has been brought against navarro for contempt in respect to the january 6th subpoena, it
is a post that he had a private messaging account and his attorney essentially try to leverage that account and say that if we give this over to you would be an interested in giving navarro i m unity. department justice said, now, we are entitled to those. those are presidential records. peter navarro is the first step. i m curious to see if the department of justice initiated those kinds of lawsuits against others, we certainly know from cnn s reporting and others that mark meadows is another person that has outstanding records. you over call, alex, that he turned over some of his text to the january six committee and one point started stopped cooperating. that those tax another slack it are things that aren t only the january six committee believes they re intended to, but the constitute presidential records on the presidential records act and nor is eager to have its hands on that. i don t can push back the mar-a-lago documents.
congress might then decide that they want to compel navarro. if doj won t enforce their subpoenas, they need to have some way to get this testimony, they can do that by giving navarro immunity and compelling him to testify. right. but doj may have some concerns at that point. right. so, there s more than one avenue there. look, our panel stays. i promised folks we would get more in depth, and i want to do that right now because the january 6 committee wants to know more than one thing from navarro. they want him under oath about the sweep, as we ve been discussing. it s been 36 days since he admitted that here on the beat, but there s other newer reporting also emerging about the fraudulent election lost, like giuliani and epstein pushed that. they re also under subpoena. the whole idea was to give pence the idea to cast doubt on the states biden won. this committee might want to know if navarro s plot connected
your steel is coming back. your steel is coming back. those plants are going to be opening, and what we ve done with with the 25% tariffs for those guys that come in and dump their steel all over the place and by the way, it s not good steel. you know what i mean. it s crap. but your steel is coming back. it s all coming back. donald trump is really proud of his tariffs which pretty much no one else wanted except for trade hard liner and white house adviser peter navarro. now with gary cohn out as chief kpik adviser, trump is considering giving navarro his job. who is peter navarro and how scary is the idea of him running u.s. economic policy? well, just check out his last appearance on am joy. i have one rule, i talk policy. no matter what you say, i will