showdown with donald trump over those classified documents that were seized from his club mar-a-lago. the department of justice has given judge alien cannon until tomorrow to decide whether to restore their access to the classified material. if she refuses, doj lawyers say they will go to the 11th circuit court of appeals. judge cannon temporarily blocked the doj s access to the documents until a special master was assigned. on tuesday, the department told a judge any delay in the case will cause quote, irreparable harm to the government and the public. meanwhile, the january 6th congressional committee has been busy gathering new evidence. the committee subpoenaed secret service for records after learning some agency text messages from january 5th and sixth went missing. today, one panel member told our nicole wallace they are now getting a lot of new information. do you have new evidence that was not at your disposal at the time of the last public hearing and it, numerato
number of text messages, radio traffic, that kind of thing. it s thousands of exhibits. tech messages from january 5th and sixth? primarily. but the trenches we ve received have been significantly. we might get a closer look at those messages, because on september 28th, we believe we will be resuming those public hearings. we heard that from the committee earlier today. what that, let s get smarter with the help of tights lead off panel. joins us, nbc news correspondent, moderator of washington week on pbs. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, he has tried hundreds of cases in his 30 year career. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she is now a law professor at the university of alabama. joyce, to you first. what exactly is the justice department looking for in terms of what they want judge cannon to do? well, what doj has asked judge cannon to do is to release the classified documents that were seized at mar-a-lag
portion of the base, if they do and do these investigations on hunter biden, whatnot, i believe it backfires on republicans in the long run and the biden administration needs to focus on governing. makes a really strong potent about the idea, if the focus is bringing one down as opposed to lifting many up especially the economy we re in the focus they may have not been shy on the campaign trial and frankly republicans claimed the majority in the house and their platforms were not hidden about investigating the investigators, the origin of covid 19, the withdrawal from afghan stand. this seems to be a lot about the political optics because they can t enforce anything legislatively. we don t expect legislation to come out of congress next on a two years because the house is moving further to the right, meanwhile not only is the senate
and whatnot, i think it backfires on republicans in the long run. and the biden administration needs to focus on governing. téa, she makes really strong point about the idea, if the focus is bringing one person down as opposed to lifting maybe millions up, especially in the economy that were in and beyond, the focus has been, and they have not been shy on the campaign trail, and frankly, republicans have reclaimed the majority in the house, and their platforms were not hidden about investigating the investigators. the origins of covid-19, the withdrawal from afghanistan, hunter biden, the biden finances more broadly. this seems to be a lot about the political optics. because they can t really focus anything legislatively, right? we don t expect substantial legislation to come out of congress for the next two years, because the house is being moved further towards the right, meanwhile, not now not only on the senate republicans more moderate. we know democrats are in control of the
in? what are you? still a congressman elect. until there s a speaker, we are not full members of congress yet. so can the 1/6 committee zip off the rest of their evidence to the archives? i do think the 117th is over, but i guess the 1/6 committee is still in existence. hasn t been shut down yet. paging liz cheney. tell me what it s like up there today. i think what you re seeing is exactly what ali is describing where you have a really unified democratic party that is very focused in support of jeffries, but also really focused on legislation, on governing, on policy. on the other side, you have a republican party that has been completely captured by the extremists on the right and it s not, it used to be the fringe. now it is the folks who are in control of that party. and you re seeing 19, 20 people