go go go go. just horrifying. terrifying. right. that was the intense scene in times square. i m don lemon. you can see poppy is here, kaitlan is off, lucky kaitlan, she s on assignment. good to see you. did you have a good new year s? i wore my sparkles for you. you were so good and sparkly in new orleans with your three children. it was great to be with family. you know that s everything over the holidays. we have to talk about what s happened over the new years. there was a new year s eve attack on police at times square just hours before midnight. who investigators have in custody. plus a one in a century floor fight looms as kevin mccarthy s speaker bid faces its final hurdle but will the concessions be enough to win over the never kevin crew. and the ph.d. student in criminal justice accused of killing four idaho students could be headed back to idaho soon. we have to start with this. new details coming in on the new year s eve machete attack in times
mccarthy is scrambling to gain the votes he needs to be speaker even after making major concessions this weekend, it still might not be enough. the suspect in the machete attack on three police officers in times square,vestigators dis handwritten diary. what it says. plus this. eight and a half years for the organizer to kidnap and kill me, that s a significant sense. we have gretchen whitmer s reaction to the sentences handed to the man who plotted to kidnap her. hear what she told our own kaitlan collins. let s begin in washington. house republican leader kevin mccarthy will be taking the race for speaker to the floor officially tomorrow in what could be the most dramatic house speaker election. he s made a number of concessions so try to get the number of votes to succeed nancy pelosi. will we see the first floor fight as it s called in 100 years. let s turn to harry inton. what do you think? let s talk math. right now the gop s 2023 majority is 222, seats majori
it, it s today. good to see you. kaitlan is on assignment. so we re going to start with catching you up on the five big stories on cnn this morning. we re looking more about the suspect in the new year s eve machete attack. sources say the 19-year-old wrote of his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and diaz a martyr. he s currently in custody in a new york city hospital where he s recovering from a gunshot wond. the three officers injured in the machete attack have all been treated and released. also, this morning, the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in a pennsylvania court tomorrow. his name is bryan kohberger. he faces four counts of first degree murder and a charge of burglary in moscow, idaho. he s accused of killing four college students as they slept in their home in idaho. we ll speak to one of the students who was in one of his classes, co-burger s classes. he ll join us in a minute. tens of thousands of mour
but along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that came from trump s team saying its finding, quote, cast serious doubt on the claim that there had been a diligent search for records. now donald trump s legal team has until 8:00 p.m. tonight to respond to all of this and it will come to a head tomorrow. that is when a judge has scheduled a hearing on the special master request. joining me right now, a great team, we have ken dilanian, josh dossy, and law professor from the university of alabama, and columnist for the boston globe. kim and joyce ar
post-roe society, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. it s good to be back here, we have got a lot to cover. it has been exactly three weeks, three weeks since the faa searched donald trump s florida home, and tonight we know the justice department has completed its review of all of the documents that were seized by the fbi. doj lawyers say a limited number of the items recovered potentially contain attorney client privileged information. the judge is now considering a request from trump s legal team to now appoint a neutral special master to see if any documents are covered by executive privilege. over the weekend, judge alene cannon, a trump appointee, signaled preliminary support for a third party to review the cover documents, our own kelly o donnell has more. today, the doj told the court that the initial sorting of documents has already been completed. the trump team pushed back. we had a lot of proble