We all exist in the context, michael. We do. Given that, that is all we have to do. Rape will continue our coverage right now. Take it away, ali. You have two speech, amazing and intentionally amazing, no matter what you do. Michael steele today is giving us labor day stuff. He has probably got a whiskey snifter there. I mean, somebody accused him of having bourbon in his cup, ali, i am going to investigate myself. All morning, michael is leaning it over, checking out, i m with you, michael. It is labor day. You guys deserve a break. I am just a woman, ali, at work trying to do my part. I love you both. We will see you tomorrow. I hope you have an amazing afternoon. Check velshi starts now. Good morning. It is saturday, august 31st. It is 66 days until election day. This morning, i ve got georgia on my mind, a state crucial to understanding how this election is playing out both in that state and nationally. For decades, georgia, a decidedly red state did not get much attention in presi
chair benny thompson says they have signed about 20 new subpoenas to go out soon and a federal judge thursday appeared unwilling to block the release of white house documents that trump has been trying to keep secret, some nearly 800 pages of them, including daily call logs, and notes from the and notes frf staff. you said the judge doesn t play last week. how do you see this playing out? i was in court on thursday. i had the pleasure of watching judge tanya take the lawyers to task. she shot down every argument they tried to make. they had little authority for the argument. she made it clear she will issue a ruling expeditiously and she understood there is a november 12th deadline for the first documents to go over from the national archives to the select committee. i suspect a ruling and an appeal. going to the other point where we heard representative bennie
fraud push. there s 600 pages in binders from the press secretary about talking points related to the election, and all of this is about january 6th. it s documents the house is pursuing as they investigate that attack. and these are things that trump says right now should be privileged, should be kept secret to protect the presidency. all right. so ali, let s bring you in. this is caught up in court. when could we find out more? could these documents potentially be released soon? yeah. pam, so there s a hearing scheduled on this for thursday, november 4th. a few days from now. the parties will make their arguments about executive privilege. and then the judge i believe will rule quickly because there s a november 12th deadline here at which point national archives will turn over these documents. i would expect the judge to give the ruling on november 12th. important to keep in mind, though, this is the district court, there is the trial court level, the lowest of three