attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it s the most aggressive step, perhaps, taken by donald trump to assert executive and attorney-client privileges to keep witnesses from cooperating with that investigation. how this fight is resolved could determine whether the firewall around donald trump falls, opening the flood gates about what aides and lawyers were telling him on and around january 6 and what decisions he was making. this comes as the january 6 committee is about to hold its first public hearing in more than two months. that s going to happen next wednesday. it could be the final hearing before the panel releases its final report. and of course the suspense is building about what its end game will be. will the committee formally recommend a criminal prosecution of donald trump to the doj in connection with the capital attack? that remains a possibility. in the classified documents case, the trump team has until next friday to present proof to a special master that
agency today. remember that explosive testimony from cassidy hutchinson who said or not himself told or the then president was furious when his security detail wouldn t take him to the capitol on january 6th? the president said something to the effect of. i am the president taking up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded sir we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm. he said sir we need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing, we are not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle and when mr. ornado had recounted the story to me he had motion towards his clavicle s. we have lots more to come on that in just a moment, plus there is news on team trump s request for a special master to oversee the fbi s review. of the evidence seized in mar-a-lago. now the doj wants to file a resp
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good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m jose diaz, picking up another hour of coverage on nbc. president biden traveling in milwaukee this hour. stop one of a battleground blitz, he will also be heading to pennsylvania, where the senate race is critical for control of congress. more on his message in moments. plus, travel headaches this labor day, as millions of americans take to the roads, and air. i woke up to a text message saying my flight was canceled. they were steady. what you need to know on the busiest labor day since before the pandemic. right now, u.s. immigration policy is in the spotlight. nine people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in the waters of the rio grande as they tried to cross into the united states. what is happening at our border? we begin this hour with the unofficial kickoff of the final sprint of the 2022 midterm campaign. president biden is now on his way to milwaukee, wisconsin, where he will take part in labor day festivi
reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga