day 289 of the biden administration. the focus is on capitol hill where the democrats are finally expected to vote tomorrow on the president s spending plan. we should add, in fairness, your u.s. senate is leaving on a ten-day break and the house is out next week as well. so you get the urgency that has gripped washington. on another front, the committee investigating the 1/6 insurrection, donald trump s attempts to keep documents related to that day private and away from that committee appear to be increasingly futile. the deadline to hand over about 770 pages of it is next friday. it seems a federal judge is reluctant to intervene here. trump s attorneys argued today there was no legislative purpose to which tanya i can t chucken, federal judge replied, quote, are you saying the president s notes, talking points and records of telephone conversations on january 6th have no bearing on the investigation? these are about who the
president was talking to as people were breaking windows and climbing into the capitol. so read into that what you will. we re getting a better idea the sheer scope of that committee s work. 20 new subpoenas are about to be handed out, apparently. chairman benny thompson tonight offering few clues as to who they re going to call. who s in this next batch? like what kind of well, some of the people that have been written about, some of the people who haven t been written about, you know, we re just doing our body of work. among those expected to be served, as they say, and we ve said this many times before, trump attorney general john eastman. he is the trump-friendly lawyer who argued vice president menace indeed had the authority to overturn 2020 presidential election and then blamed him for the attack on the capitol when he didn t. vice chair of the committee liz
cheney confirms to nbc news the committee has interviewed already 150 people. not among them, however, is close trump ally steve bannon who the house found in contempt two weeks ago for defying the subpoena. it s now up to the attorney general merrick garland to decide what happens next, and so far he s not saying. also tonight, nbc news confirming a story first reported by the washington post that the manhattan d.a. has convened a second grand jury to investigate the trump organization. the post puts it this way, one person familiar with the matter said the second grand jury was expected to examine how former president donald trump s company valid its assets. the previous grand jury resulted in felony indictments against two trump companies and his longtime chief financial officer, allen weissleberg. more on the president s economic plan tonight. the president s been on the
executive privilege argument, that at least the attorneys must know hold no water, but it seems clear, especially with the number the committee has investigated that this is going to be a fulsome, thorough kpfgs examination. joyce, back to the judge s comments. what meaning did you attach to her words when federal judges appointed for life speak? it s important we pay attention. and also, if i can, a second part. what do you make of the importance of a second new york grand jury? well, i think the judge was very clear when she spoke in this case indicating that ultimately there was a balancing test that had to happen in this
good evening and welcome to you all. 20 subpoenas going out from the 1/6 committee. who should be nervous tonight? you know, everybody should be nervous, brian, because one thing this committee has shown with the pace of its work is that they are going full steam ahead. they have fleshed out the committee staff. they have people who, for instance, are experienced with financial investigations. so some of the people that they ve interviewed are probably people whose names we have heard, but others may well be people who were behind the scenes, people who understand, for instance, how money moved that funded bringing people to washington for these events. it s clear that the committee is no holds barred at this point. sam, this big house vote tomorrow, give us please for our viewers a preview and give us some real-world expectations. so we ve been doing this road