pro punishing protesters forcing some to fight in the very war they want to stop. and crisis of democracies, a warning to the world from french president macron, and his message to donald trump after being wrapped up in the mar-a-lago case. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead. and just in, special master of the trump mar-a-lago documents case opens the door to hearing witness testimony. this, coming after yet another legal defeat for former president donald trump. three judges from the 11th circuit court of appeals unanimously reversed district judge aleene cannon s decision. three-judge panel, one obama and three trump appointees. a special master s review of that subset, about 100 records is now partially stopped after judge cannon amended her ruling today. and just a short time ago, a special master deliver a new order to trump s legal team to prove one notable aspect in the former president s public claims. an in
on the rise. o donnell: tom brady and gisele divorce. new details about the end of the power couple s 13-year marriage, during a tumultuous season for brady. our exclusive interview with u2 s front man. we visit bono s home town of dublin. and, steve hartman s on the road with a high schooler s important mission. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this busy friday. we want to begin with the breaking news from san francisco, and the new details about the condition of the husband of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. the 82-year-old is out of surgery tonight. his doctors say the effort to repair a skull fracture was successful. his right arm and hands were also seriously injured, after a horrifying attack with a hammer inside the couple s home. nancy pelosi was right here in washington at the time of the attack, but she
Bipartisan panel is set to return for a Blockbuster Presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. Weve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the Vice President and the congress to overthrow the 2020 president ial election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what were going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. Earlier this week, chairman Bennie Thompson said, quote, unless Something Else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. Just last, Night Committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the Texas Tribune festival that she doesnt think this weeks hearing will in fact be the last. She shared new information about what the committee obtained from the Secret Service around the time of the insurrection. We have received very significant production of information, material from the Secret Service.
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
argument that he declassified documents as president. writing in part this, the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. but even without evidence, the former president continuing to make this claim. in an inteiew, just last night, the fox news host sean hannity claiming he declassified documents by simply thinking about it. it doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, there s different people said there are different things but as i understand, there doesn t have to be the president. you re the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying it s declassified, by thinking about, it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. but the headline here is, really none of that matters, right, as the 11th district writes this, in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or r