andrews towns, we have breaking news into the special counsel investigation, the donald trump s handling of classified documents. abc news reports prosecutors in the, office gave compelling initial evidence, it s not his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials, after leaving office. , when two sources who described his comment to abc news. trump is also facing a major legal threat in new york. today, we may know much more about whether he ll face criminal charges, related to i-20 payments paid to stormy daniels. while we do not know the details what s happening in the manhattan grand jury room, we do know that the panel is expected to begin tomorrow afternoon, and everyone will be watching to see the vote to indict trump. over the, weekend trump claimed to be rescued today.
theoretically if trump doesn t appeal this. the justice department can resume its criminal investigation with access to those thousands of declassified records as soon as next week. but even having those documents held up by the special master, hasn t stopped the justice department and the newly appointed special counsel from continuing its investigation. the new york times reporting today, today s decision from the 11th circuit comes on a busy and very important day for special counsel jack smith. the decision came on the same day that quote appeared before a grand jury in washington. that s investigating mr. trump s handling of the documents, according to two people familiar with the matter. those aides included dan scavino, trump s former social media grew, and william russell and william harrison who worked for trump when he was in the white house. in recent weeks, several witnesses connected to that investigation have appeared in front of a grand jury in
all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thanks for staying up late. i ll see you again tomorrow! see you again tomorrow! thanks to at home for being here. we are breaking news tonight into the investigation of trump s handling into top secret government records that went up at his florida beach club. the trump appointed job judge has denied the government s request for era partial state of her special master ruling. last week, judge aileen cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party. to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retreat from trump s home nearly 40 days ago. and in response, the justice department begrudgingly said, okay, go ahead and appoint that special master. but please exclude those roughly 100 classified documents you seized from mar-a-lago. because we need to continue the criminal investigation into these classified documents due to potential national security
they swore out the statement that said, we have nothing more did and it turned out they did. these were the steps of the fbi can still do right now to investigate around the details. they can t use the contents of the documents themselves yet, we have to wait and see what happens with that special master which is a whole convoluted mess unto itself. kirsten, i know i m asking you to look in a crystal ball here. i wonder what the impact is going to be, what do all of these developments about trump s handling of classified information mean politically, are voters following along with this? i mean, i feel like we have this conversation a lot. and it tends to be that at this point, that the people everything is sort of baked-in, i think is the answer. i think most people who don t like donald trump or have problems with donald trump, even people who may like his politics but have problems with him as president, are going to look a scans of this and olivia yet another data point agai
cabinet, and so it would have been a bit of an outside choice, let“s cabinet, and so it would have been a bit of an outside choice, let s put it that way, but as you say, earlier today, he ruled himself out of the running, saying that was a very difficult decision to have made. all eyes will be on who he throws his weight behind, will it be one of the candidates who have already declared, orsome candidates who have already declared, or some of the others who we are expecting to be seriously considering it, foreign secretary, will this trust, for example. liz truss. thousands of protesters have stormed the official residence of sri lanka“s president in colombo demanding his resignation over the country s economic crisis. huge crowds enraged by gotabaya rajapaksa“s handling of sri lanka“s worst economic crisis in decades overwhelmed the security forces. reports say the president has been moved to a safer location. the prime minister says he is willing to resign to make a