off to the reid out with joy reid. hi, joy. hi. i want to come up with an ice cream flavor. i don t know if y all know but at our family we normally name our christmas trees. we ve had tree-rethra franklin in the past. we had tree-yonce snowl es so i m ready for this. all i m going to say is r-e-s-p-e-c-t to aretha franklin. we begin on this friday night with what is shaping up to be another appalling abuse of power by the trump era justice department. the new york times has detailed how under trump the doj subpoenaed data from apple related to accounts belonging to at least two democrats on the house intelligence committee. the two democrats happen to be some of trump s most vocal critics. committee chair adam schiff and member eric swalwell.