joins us live. and the race to 2024 officially heating up, the first challenger to donald trump for the republican nomination. his one-time ally turned opponent. what nikki haley is saying about pushing back on belize, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good valentines evening, i m stephanie ruhle. we may be on the verge of several major legal battles involving the justice department. donald trump, and his former vp mike pence. a source tells nbc news that the former vp plans to challenge a subpoena from special counsel, jack smith. smith wants pence to testify under oath in the investigation in trump s role in the january 6th riot. pence was the focus of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those electoral resorts before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden junior of the state of delaware has received 306 v
of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those election results before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. donald j trump from the state of florida has received 232 votes. the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. the special counsel is also running the inquiry into trump s handling of those classified records. nbc has learned jack smith has asked a judge to compel trump lawyer evan corcoran to and questions before the grand jury in that case. we are also soon going to learn more about georgia prosecutor, fani willis s investigation into trump and election interference
have the audio recordings of rudy giuliani and trum officials and what they were saying privately to the fo news hosts that is coming up in our hour. that is a hello vtes, i don t go anywhere. stay tuned, brother thanks as always roll tape thanks to at-home for joining us this hour classified information is huge category. it covers everything fro handwritten notes that could b completely inconsequential, al the way up to the nuclea codes. so, just hearing that somethin is classified, doesn t give yo all that much to go on in term of what the actual underlyin information is which is what makes this revelation from the new york times today such a big deal. special counsel, jack smith, i asking witnesses about multipl alleged instances of forme president trump showing off confidential map that contains sensitive intelligence information after he lef office for months, we have known that president trump took hundred of classified documents with him when he left the white
president trump showing off a confidential map that contains sensitive intelligence information after he left office for months we have known that president trump took hundreds of classified documents with him when he left the white house, and we ve known among those documents were top secret papers that could contain things like sensitive information, but this reporting in the new york times tonight is potentially the first instance we know of trump not just having that sensitive info in a broom closet somewhere but of him actually showing it off, potentially damaging national security, potentially violating laws like the espionage act. so that information is new and it is huge, and it is o one of the investigations by the special counsel into former president trump. in his other investigation, the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and january 6th, we ve got this today the special counsel s office has sent subpoenas to former advisers and c
we ll explain what the ruling says. ahead, both lawmakers expelled from the tennessee statehouse for protesting gun violence have been reappointed to their seats we ll explain why this is not the end of the partisan turmoil in tennessee. and louisville police released a chilling 911 call from a woman who told the dispatcher she was the mother of the old national bank shooter. we ll play for you her frantic call and have the latest in that investigation. plus, donald trump is back in new york this morning for a different legal issue. this one with the state s attorney general we ll take you through what s happening today in that case meanwhile, there are new developments in the investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents we ll look at the reporting on a map trump may have taken with him to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news ckatty kay.