plus, the damage is so bad florida authorities can barely make out where property is, let alone search the property. and rescue missions are now recovery missions. six days after ian, crews cannot confirm who is missing and who might still be alive. areas getting food drops. and audio recordings of oath keepers with a plot to reverse the will of the american people and keep trump in office using force. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with that breaking news. president trump asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene over the seizure by the fbi of documents from his home at mar-a-lago. the latest shocking development in this legal battle after fbi agents searched his home in august and seized more than 100 classified documents. trump s request is to ask the supreme court to reverse the 11th circuit court ruling. that ruling of course gave the justice department access to review those classified documents recovered from trump s florida estate. his latest requ
as the justice department accuses the far right militia group, the oath keepers of plotting an armed rebellion to keep donald trump in power. we ll go live to the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. where testimony begins today. and liz cheney steps up again, this time speaking out against trump s recent attack on mitch mcconnell and mcconnell s wife, calling trump s remarks about elaine chao absolutely despicable and racist. we ll have the latest update on a growing scandal. that s actually one republican that s spoken out. exactly. against donald trump attacking the senate majority leader with violent rhetoric and making racist statements about his wife. i don t really not a lot of other republicans, elected republicans who have done that. i guess we can t be shocked anymore, but it is shocking. it still is shocking. it should be. that the leader of the united states senate in the republican party had a quote death wish placed on him by the former president
another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
reality. then, from potential, national security concerns to possible chomsky s a trump grill. chuck rosenberg on what is missing from classified folders found at mar-a-lago. and he was among the very few people in the room where it happened. what i saw general flynn, i saw sydney powell. the overstock person, i ve never met him. but we know about what pat cipollone told the grand jury investigating january six today. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, as you may have seen, president biden delivered a speech in philadelphia last. might be covered it live. speech outlining the threats to our democracy and what he called the battle for the soul of our nation. no it was, of course, a political speech as all addresses by a sitting president inherently are. but in the aftermath, one of the two major parties, dominated by the maga authoritarian faction the president was talking about, has been whining and moaning about how politically
then president biden s bfd moment. he signed a major climate, health care and tax bill all into law all without the support of a single republican. now democrats say they have something big to campaign on. will it be enough? plus, threats and dangerous rhetoric is at an all-time high and that has poll workers at an all-time low. how can democracy function when no one is there to ensure free and fair elections? dangerous times indeed as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle live from new york city. this primary election night is helping to define the future of trump s loudest republican critic. no house seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn to protect. as was widely expected, wyoming congresswoman liz cheney the, january six committee vice chair and vocal trump critic has lost her house seat. cheney was one of ten house republicans voted to impeach trump after the