for msnbc news, matt miller joins us, former special advisor on communications for the nsa, and former chief spokesperson for the department of justice. and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. you ve had a bit more time, tell us what else we ve learned. i mean, i think it s significant, especially those photos that you discussed in the last hour, that show just how this was organized. i think the key part of this is essentially, them not trusting the trump team. because after they had that initial grand jury subpoenaed that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump reporter. so we don t know based on the filing what it was, but it s been reported publicly they said there is no responsive documents left. and lo and behold, when they when it s executed the search warrant, there were all these documents left. there s still information, and we d
demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president trump. that s coming up. but first, to the fury and fear on one side and jubilation on the other still palpable in our nation in this first week since the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. its ruling means it is now up to the states to decide whether to allow abortions. protests against the ruling are growing, but so too is the fight by those who want to ban abortion altogether. and to their delight, a cascade of new abortion bans went into place in the hours after the ruling. as of tonight, ten states effe effectively banned abortion. this is truly historic. tonight we re about to illuminate the impact this four-day-old decision will have. one by one we are seeing more than half the states in america moving swiftly to implement l
happening in less than 24 hours, a surprise january 6 hearing is now on the calendar for tomorrow. but the house select committee wasn t even supposed to meet this week. what changed? few details are trickling out. but the panel does say, quote, recently obtained evidence will be presented. and it will receive witness testimony. a lot of intrigue there, especially because we know the committee s been closely poring over new documentary footage that surfaced from a british filmmaker who had close access to former president donald trump and his family before and after january 6. a lot more on that ahead, along with the brand-new developments tonight on one of the central figures of the election interference attempt who pleaded the fifth to the committee 100 times. the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president t
master to review the materials seized by the government. more on those developments in just a moment, including reaction from senator patrick leahy. also this hour, steve kornacki on today s primaries, including the fierce new york congressional race pitting two veteran democratic colleagues against eac other both chairs over one redistributed seat. and the latest on primaries in florida and oklahoma. and teachers are in columbus, ohio, after bargaining associations with the school board stalled. first to the classified documents seized from mr. trump. joining us is justice and as well jens correspondent ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg and national reporter coral linnick, coauthor of the best selling author i alone can fix it. ken, tell us more. a letter from the national archives to trump s lawyers back in may was published by john solomon who has ties to trump. officials are not pulling b