struggling to explain away reports ease bag for an abortion. everything he says just leads to more confusion. that and president biden answers the republican attacks on law and order by keeping campaign promises all about justice. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again everyone i m ayman mohyeldin in for stephanie ruhle. right now, breaking news on the mar-a-lago documents investigation, questioning whether the former president is fully cooperating with the feds. the new york times reporting that the justice department is indicated that trump s lawyers that as suspects he still has not yet returned all the documents taken from the white house. the paper says, that skepticism has led to a split in trump s legal team. the times say the doj has declined to comment on this report, but the paper notes that one of the potential requests in the mar-a-lago was obstruction. i and the january six committee is moving far head, just as house again i
and the justice department s january six committee is moving far head, just as house again investigators get ready for what could be the final hearing. now the select committee says it ll take place one week from today at 1 pm eastern, this will be the night session in a series of hearings featuring stunning testimony from allies and aides to the former president. we had also heard about militia groups activities before and during the capital riot. today, a leading member of one of those groups pleaded guilty to suggestions. said proud boys member, jeremy is the first from the group to plead guilty. he s also the first of one of six defendants who of planning to oppose the u.s. government. prosecutors say he will cooperate against the proud boys, their leaders andother remembers. this one against the oath keepers militia. today, one former member told the jury that the founder may have been in contact with the secret service in september of 2020. former federal prosecutor
but he seems to be no longer involved at the special master level. something seems to be going on. but we ve been having trouble quite crystallizing what it is. so what my colleagues were told was this is what it was really about. that he wanted to cooperate with the government and the justice department said we think there might still be more. he wanted to hire a firm to come into a forensic audit that the government would trust, as too opposed to maybe the fbi going through it, or having the government trusting trump people after they apparently deceived them about everything they turned over. and then case was pushed aside for that. his suggestion was rejected by others who wanted to take a more militant, resistant stance and it apparently prevailed at least for now. frank, as charlie mentioned, the fbi found dozens of folders if you will with classified or sensitive document markings. two parts for you. you re a former counter
mar-a-lago or they want to know what s in the drawers or the storage cabinet a places like trump s compound and golf resort in bedminster. that s what we re talking about. we re gonna dig into that but, i also want to ask you about your colleagues reporting in this new report suggests the document request has divided trump s lawyers. do you have any more insider? what more do you know about that part of the story? well, there has been chatter that there is disagreement within their legal team. different news outlets have reported that in different ways. the suggestion has been that chris kise, the appellate lawyer, sort of a serious guy from florida who retired more recently was suddenly being sidelined and, that didn t seem to be quite right because he was the lead signatory on their appeals court and supreme court briefs. but he seems to be no longer involved in the fighting of the special master level. something seems to be going on.