4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we are tracking hurricane ian tonight as it closes in on florida s west coast. we just got the 11 pm forecast from the national hurricane center, and we ll bring you the latest on the huge storms path in just a moment. meanwhile, the january six committee has postponed tomorrow s hearing because of the storm. so far the hearing has yet to be rescheduled. but we are getting more video from a roger stone documentary that the committee is likely to feature once the hearing does happen. in one newly released clip, stone is heard talking about challenging the election results even before the election happened. what they are assuming is the election will be normal, the election will not be normal. oh these are the california result, sorry we re not expecting them, will challenge them in the court, if you actually show up at the electoral college, armed guards will show them a. on the president, a few, you re not stealing florida, i
opportunity to beat up on children? so do you believe this. i m not the one beating up on children. it s the people promoting gender transition in children that are potentially harming them. it feels like every single hearing that i m in, whether it is in oversight or whether it is in budget or whether it is in a subcommittee, somehow the witnesses find a way to bring in trans children into whatever conversation we re trying to have here. that was the powerful rebuke yesterday by our next guest. democratic congresswoman rebecca balint shutting down a former trump official and climate and energy expert witness who called her own lies a, quote, matter of fact. that was just one of two house oversight hearings yesterday focused on a corporal strategy that republicans falsely claim promotes gender transition care for children. their latest weapon in a seeming charade against wokeness to
why is that? he s the one guy who knew what he was doing? you never know what it comes to trump or his lawyers. there s any number of possibilities. it may be that he just refused to continue with some of trump s lies a, out of court inside court. i don t know. i think the special master litigations steph is something that has spectacularly blown up in donald trump s face. special masters are not something you normally get. you and i would never get a special master, but trump s lawyers basically told a judge in florida, judge cannon that he should get special rights and get the special master and he got it. but the person that they named judge dearie is clearly not playing ball the way that judge cannon was. he has basically called trump s bluff, and in effect what this specialist master has done is