i m bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden s former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we re told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden s former execute assistant had been questioned. we re also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? well, bianna, one thing he s trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on. already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. attorney
showdown with donald trump over those classified documents that were seized from his club mar-a-lago. the department of justice has given judge alien cannon until tomorrow to decide whether to restore their access to the classified material. if she refuses, doj lawyers say they will go to the 11th circuit court of appeals. judge cannon temporarily blocked the doj s access to the documents until a special master was assigned. on tuesday, the department told a judge any delay in the case will cause quote, irreparable harm to the government and the public. meanwhile, the january 6th congressional committee has been busy gathering new evidence. the committee subpoenaed secret service for records after learning some agency text messages from january 5th and sixth went missing. today, one panel member told our nicole wallace they are now getting a lot of new information. do you have new evidence that was not at your disposal at the time of the last public hearing and it, numerato
number of text messages, radio traffic, that kind of thing. it s thousands of exhibits. tech messages from january 5th and sixth? primarily. but the trenches we ve received have been significantly. we might get a closer look at those messages, because on september 28th, we believe we will be resuming those public hearings. we heard that from the committee earlier today. what that, let s get smarter with the help of tights lead off panel. joins us, nbc news correspondent, moderator of washington week on pbs. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, he has tried hundreds of cases in his 30 year career. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she is now a law professor at the university of alabama. joyce, to you first. what exactly is the justice department looking for in terms of what they want judge cannon to do? well, what doj has asked judge cannon to do is to release the classified documents that were seized at mar-a-lag
known to be loathed to deviate from past practice, a man known as kafrl, methodical and some even say plotting, came out and did something that he surely does not want to do. ee he addressed the fbi s search on monday in mar-a-lago, donald trump s private club and residence. garland spoke from the justice department just hours after the fbi field offers in cincinnati became embroil flood a tense armed standoff with the man who fired a nail gun while brandishing an ar-15-style weapon. the incident comes amid an alarming spike in threats on law enforcement and after the raid on mar-a-lago. garland s, the biggest moment of his address today announced a major move by the doj that the department had asked a court in south florida to unseal the search warrant that was the predicate for the fbi search of mar-a-lago on monday. let s watch merrick garland now. just now, the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrants and prop
captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well