spokesperson denied that allegation, but we already know special counsel jack smith has been eyeing obstruction charges, and that does not look good for donald trump. new reports also depicting chaos on trump s legal team. the daily beast reporting trump s lawyers are starting to wonder if there might be a snitch. snitches get stitches. one of the his legal team saying, there s a lot of lawyers and a lot of jealousy. i wrote a piece for this on msnbc.com and wrote with trump you have the perfect storm of lawyers fighting for pole position and client who s prone to embracing the microphone and didn t meet a camera he didn t love. rolling stone reporting trump s team is scrambling to unmask the feds investigating him. he wants to immediately and quickly purge the fbi and doj of officials. joining me now, the reporter who broke the story just hugo, i m going start with you. what can you add to your great reporting about evan corcoran being steered away from searching trump s per
$2.1 trillion we ve ever had. if i can parrot to when republicans were in the majority when they had the house, the senate and everything, they didn t cut anything. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy defending the debt limit agreement hours before the bill barely cleared a republican led house committee. we ll have a look at where the vote count stands in the full house as lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize the bill. also ahead, we re learning more about what was reportedly happening inside mar-a-lago as the justice department ramped up the pressure on donald trump to turn over classified documents. plus we ll have an update from eastern europe following another drone strike inside russian territory. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where the house rules committee voted in favor of advancing the debt ceiling bill to a
in this deadly stabbing spree across canada is found dead tonight. but now the search intensifies for his brother, wanted for his alleged role in killing ten and injuring 18 others. let s go outfront. good evening. welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. tonight, the justice department is plotting its next move after a federal judge sides with donald trump. the former president allowed to use a special master to sift through the more than 11,000 items and documents that the fbi seized from his mar-a-lago home. you ll remember last month. this decision comes despite the doj arguing that it had already completed a review of potentially privileged documents. judge eileen canon, who was apointed by trump, citing several reasons for making this decision. writing that it will, quote, insure that at least the appearance of fairness and integrity under these extraordinary circumstances, she also cited what she calls, quote, swirli
worth of his holdings, something with major implications for his taxes and the future of his company. but facedith those questions, he s decided not to talk. in a statement, trump said, quote, i once asked if you re nocent why are you taking the fifth amendment. now inow the answer to that estion. when your faly, your company and a the people in your orbit ve bece the targets of an a defense of donald trump by undermining the government using unsubstantiated allegations. trump s own lawyers were doing that just yesterday suggesting that fbi agents searching trump s home were breaking the law. this is a joke. i m concerned that they may have planted something. at this point, who knows? i don t trust the government and that s a very frightening thing as an american. i don t think they would go to the extent of trying to plant information, i think they just make stuff up and come up with whatever they want. that s the way they will have to proceed. they don t have anything.
news himself just hours ago. multiple sources tell cnn the search is related to the handling of classified documents and where documents were kept. cnn s randi kaye and sara murray are covering the very latest. this is such a huge night to think about what s going on right now. extraordinary developments continue to come out, sara. what are you learning about this fbi search at mar-a-lago? absolutely. these are very wild circumstances because we re talking about a former president and he broke the news. he released a long statement saying the fbi had even searched a safe that he had. we ve been told by multiple sources this is related to the presidential records act. this has to do with materials he took when he left the white house potentially classified documents that he took and we know from earlier reporting the national archives said they had recovered 15 boxes of materials that the former president took with him, but what this was focused on is where he was keeping cl