senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former trump white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the leaked audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he stebve bannon been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire, who is kind of a patron of bannon s. in the leaked audio we got yesterday, bannon out on b
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trump s lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national children s told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence committees that her office would conduct a risk assessment of republican mar-a-lago materials. democratic lawmakers in both chambers of congress expressed concerns over the former president s handling of documents. the thought that he had put our national security, and those who serve to protect us at such risk is extraordinary. i m deeply alarmed at what we are learning. it is not about whether donald trump broke the law, but that he could be putting our national security at risk, he could be
that al-qaeda has not returned to afghanistan after the u.s. withdrawal. the late saturday statement comes two weeks after president biden announced that drone strike in kabul, killing kind as leader. it marks one year since the u.s. began as chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, allowing tampa taliban to regain control. new reaction today on the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resource. members of congress asking for a damage assessment from the intelligence community on those documents seethed. these documents not only contain our nation s top secret, but because the countries would do us harm, do harm to our own citizens, we don t want them to get a hold of them in any way. take photos lynn, anything, because they can actually reverse engineer them and figure out who the sources are, what s the confidential information is. that is why it is so important that these documents remain unsafe locations and mar-a-lago, where you can check out croquet sets and tennis rac
difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three