we are getting a wealth of new details today in the criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents thanks to some pretty stunning brand-new reporting. new york times reports this. prosecutors are expected to question a new witness in front of a federal grand jury sitting in florida later this week. that is according to people familiar with the matter. at least one other witness has already appeared before that florida grand jury, which is separate from the one that has been sitting for months now in washington. why prosecutors have continue seened a separate grand jury from the one in d.c. is one of the mysteries, one of the major outstanding questions every one of us from the outside has regarding this case at the moment. wall street journal has described the action in the florida grand jury this way, as, quote, tying up loose ends ahead of a decision on possible charges. bloomberg is reporting teem trump is bracing for that decision to l
gun safety legislation in the senate tonight. it is minimal legislation by anyone s score. but it is the only legislation that has moved through there they are in the last 30 years. 14 republican senators voting for it, including senator mcconnell, and john cornyn, after he got booed in texas this weekend, for exactly this, either publican state convention in texas. so, something is definitely gonna happen and everyone who was advocating for this cause we ll go back to work advocating for more. as soon as this passes. but it is a very big moment in the history of the subject, and the senate tonight. literally, it s been decades of nothing. and this may be a small something that it is not nothing. and that is big news when it comes to that issue. thank you, lawrence. rachel, you ve worked too hard. get out of here. i ll take it for the rest of the day. thank you, rachel. tonight s other breaking news is that the january 6th committee has secured the cooperation of a docu
everyone, he doesn t have to focus on recent hess in the congress, which not everyone is worried about day to day, but connecting, as you say, with the support that s out there. yeah. and it will force us out of this box too of measuring whether he is successful in getting bipartisan policies through by looking to where the support is coming from. and if you have support from republican governors and you have support from republican mayors and you have support, i think more than 50% of republicans in the country support this package, then it s impossible to deny him the accomplishment of governing in a bipartisan way. yeah, all great points. i was curious what s on your mind going into this. nice to see you, my friend. thank you. thank you. i want to welcome everyone to the beat. i am ari melber. we have a special show planned for you tonight. a live interview right here on the beat with white house secretary jen psaki. that s coming up tonight. meanwhile, joe
will be witness testimony. that will include the secretary of state brad raffensperger, we believe. there are three other people who have also been subpoenaed, one who received an additional call from trump that was a georgia investigator, two others on that raffensperger call and then here s just a glimpse of one of the things we re likely to hear in court today. there is some sound from that audio call that trump made to brad raffensperger. let s take a listen to it for a section. it starts with a lawyer from the state of georgia speaking and then meadows response. i m happy to, you know, sit down or have our lawyer sit down with the lawyers on that side and explain to him, hey, based on what we ve looked at so far here s how we know this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. so, what you re saying, ryan, so what you re saying you really don t want to give access to the data, you just want to make another case on why the lawsuit
one inquiry is focused on trump s efforts of claim to power after losing the 2020 election culminating on an attack, the others into the investigation of trump s handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them. the times reports this. it s not clear precisely when meadows testified or if investigators questioned him about one or both of the cases. this has been an open question whether or not meadows who was represented by a doj official and conservative attorney had testified in any of the investigations into trump, those being run by jack smith or the georgia probe being run by fani willis. no indication in this story that he s helped the georgia investigator, but the times breaking the news that he has