republicans admit they have a massive fund raising part bum. i am a member hiding, let s get started. ge started. breaking news tonight, a federal judge in florida appointed by donald trump has issued a preliminary ruling on trump s request to apply a special master to review the documents seized by the fbi during their search of mar-a-lago earlier this month. the judge indicated that she decided to side with trump, but has not made a final decision just yet. there s a hearing thursday to discuss this matter. also coming in, april haynes has told the chairs of the house and intelligence and oversight committees that the intelligence committee is-ton duct-ing a damage assessment of the documents taken from trump s home. this comes after the justice department released a redacted version of the affidavit. the affidavit used to convince a judge to authorize the search. of course, the main of fbi agents provided to the national archives, and the search warrant affidavit detai
trump s request to apply a special master to review the documents seized by the fbi during their search of mar-a-lago earlier this month. the judge indicated that she decided to side with trump, but has not made a final decision just yet. there s a hearing thursday to discuss this matter. also new today director of national intelligence april haynes, has told the chairs of the house and intelligence and oversight committees that the intelligence committee is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from trump s home. this comes after the justice department released a redacted version of the affidavit. the affidavit used to convince a judge to authorize the search. of course, the main of fbi agents reviewed 15 boxes that trump provided to the national archives, and the search warrant affidavit details the amount of classified materials found in them. 184 documents contained classified markings, including 67 documents that were labeled as confidential, 92 that were
To be clear here, the document sees belong to the u.s. government. they do not belong to donald trump. let s welcome in our saturday night panel, joan walsh basil a. smikle, democratic strategist maya wiley, nbc legal analyst. it s good to have you with you. maya, i will start with you your reactions from this preliminary review on the special master. is it a surprise or somewhat expected? first, the judge has said that this is not a final decision, just an indication of leaning. but it is surprising to hear it because it is unusual in this kind of circumstance where you have the fbi with a very lengthy affidavit that has probable cause that crime has been committed. that was reviewed by an independent magistrate and found probable cause that that would then occasion a special master.
Same place that these sensitive documents were housed. and how is trump reacting to all of this? as you can imagine, he s throwing a ten from. rolling stone reports that he s demanding that his legal team to get the documents. they do not belong to donald trump. that s welcome in our saturday night panel, joan walsh basil a. smikle, democratic strategist maya wiley, nbc legal analyst. it s good to have you with you. my, i will start with you, your reactions from this preliminary review on the special master. is it a surprise or somewhat expected? we first, the judge said that this is not a final decision, just an indication of leaning. but it is surprising to hear it because it is unusual in this kind of circumstance where you have the fbi with a very
Quote, unquote, voting fraud. we saw man from massachusetts go to arizona, threatening the life of a secretary of state. all of this is because of politically violent rhetoric, and driving division rather than trying to find ways to unite us as a country to solve the problems we share. the problems we shared don t have the politics. we only have a people. but this is dangerous. maya wiley, thank you for making that important point about the rhetoric that we are seeing. joan walsh, basil a. smikle, tanks to you, greatly appreciate having all three of you this evening. thank you. coming up, the woman who wrote the book on knowing your value in the workplace joins us next. workplace joins us xtne