let s start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. there s one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in what s become a stream of revelations. the washington post out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they retrieved 15 boxes from mar-a-lago. at first archives officials believed that the fbi wasn t taking the documents issued seriously and they grew frustrated according to people familiar with the document dispute and agents interviewed trump s current and former advisors asking what material was in them and who was responsible for the packing and what might still be at the florida club according to a person who was questioned, quote, they interviewed almost everyone who worked for him, a trump
taylor green. some have denied this ever happened. matt gates is under investigation in an alleged sex trafficking investigation. he has denied all wrong doing, he has not been charged. but according to the testimony we heard in the hearing today, matt gates was asking for one of those from the beginning of time for everything he has ever done kind of pardons. and, you know, that could be an interesting thing for prosecutors who are still looking at him and are still going to have to decide whether or not he faces these charges. it depends on what he told the white house his pardons were about. this could add complications to matt gates. at this point, these members of congress are saying that there s nothing to see here but, as you can tell from the testimony from people inside the white house, this actually happened. you mentioned mr. biggs mr. biggs did. mr. dornan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gomer asked for one as well and m
when it may take to get that big health and tax bill passed. and sure enough a glue pull could get in the way. and then there s a big twist in the alex jones trial. years of his own text messages and emails and up in the hands of the very people who want him to pay for his lies. that and more as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. there s even more evidence tonight that the justice department s january six investigation is zeroing in on some very powerful officials in the in the trump white house. and d.c. news has confirmed the top lawyer in the trump administration former white house counsel pat cipollone has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. his testimony was a significant report of the january 6th hearings. remember cipollone was the guy who witnessed that infamous oval office meeting about seizing voting machines a, meeting the took place just weeks before the capitol riot. i opened the door and i w
who witnessed that infamous oval office meeting about seizing voting machines, a meeting the took place just weeks before the capitol riot. i opened the door and i walked in, i saw general flynn, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see these people in the oval office. i don t think any these people were providing the president with good advice. the idea that the federal government could come in and sees election as jeans, i don t understand why we even have to tell you that s a bad idea. it s a terrible idea. and there are new reports that pat philbin white house deputy has also been summoned to appear before the grand jury. adam kinzinger says that his testimony could be key. if he goes before the grand jury, it shows that this is more than what did john eastman do, the attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. and there is probably a very deep interest of what the president did. i hope pat cipollone just actuall
difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three