conduct the investigations if t the e executive branch won t back them up. joining us now, former chairman of oversight reform committee. former utah congressman jason chaffetz. welcome chairman. i want to know what your oversight list of priorities would be. but you are the chairman of oversight. you get to pick what you want to look into. but you cannot enforce your own subpoenas that is up to the biden administration. that is the most difficult thing, we were both chairmen of that committee, i think the moral cases out there. the media does not always report it. hillary clinton s i-t person issued two s subpoenas they never showed up and they never enforced it. with that said, the table is set, every major issue, the democrats held no hearings on, so, it is a wide open plate there are a lot of things to go after. trey: we had dinner one night with late justice scalia. i asked him about the tools of congress and their ability to stand up for themselves and whether or not
surprise decision from a federal judge in florida who asked the justice department to prepare a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the search warrant for donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. that decision marking more of a middle of the road approach than some expected with the judge saying, quote, very important for the public to have access to as much information as possible. joining us now from palm beach, florida, just outside of mar-a-lago and nbc news correspondent sam brock. good morning. what is the latest here? reporter: willie, good morning. the latest is, it is all quiet right now outside of mar-a-lago. after some chaos yesterday in the courtroom. at least in the sense that this was not the result that many in the legal community were expecting, that the judge appears to be sympathetic to unsealing a portion of the affidavit. here is what is happening, what will happen next. the doj has a full week to submit its redactions and the judge will look at those
backed tournament. and they re doing it for the money. wait till you hear much. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, they are going to go nuts. that s a direct quote from a republican congresswoman, talking about trump supporters the day before the january 6th riots. saying she was very concerned about what was to happen the next day and she asked the house republican leader kevin mccarthy to come up with a safety plan. i m not just giving these quotes from somebody said she said. no, it s all on tape. and part of new audio just released from new york times reporters alex burns and jonathan martin. here is congresswoman lasco on january 5th, 2021. i also asked leadership to come one a safety plan for members. i m actually very concerned about this, because we have who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people coming here. we have antifa. we also have, quite honestly trump supporters, who actually believe that we are going to overturn the elect
of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
realized follows weeks of whitehawk rhetoric as the court considers overturning roe vs. wade. sandra: mitch mcconnell has been warning about the heated rhetoric out of washington, reacted a short time ago on the senate floor. this is exactly, exactly the kind of event that many feared that the terrible breach of the courts rules and norms could feel. this is exactly the kind of event that many worried the unhinged, reckless, apocalyptic rhetoric from prominent figures toward the court going back many months and especially in recent weeks could make more likely. sandra: we have complete coverage on this breaking story. former supreme court law clerk mike davis who also oversaw kavanaugh s confirmation process will join us live in moments. and also republican senator john barrasso. john: what are we learning, david, about the suspect and the circumstances of the arrest. david: he is in federal custody, we don t have his name, he s from california, he has been in fede