on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. john fetterman, his first tv interview since having a stroke. an update on his health, and how his campaign against trump back doctor oz is going. but we start this evening s broadcast with breaking news in the vesta geisha at mar-a-lago. the next phase of the battle between the justice department and donald trump will take place in a florida courtroom tomorrow. both sides will appear before a trump appointed judge ian mckinnon. she will be the one to decide whether to grant the former presidents plea for a special master to go through those documents that were seized in his florida home. just a few hours ago, his legal team filed its response to the department of justice s objections to having a third party review those documents, citing the need for, quote, independent attorney client privilege assessments and executive privilege determinations. in a court filing revealed at this very hour last night,
interview since having a stroke. an update on his health, and how his campaign against trump backed doctor oz is going. but we start this evening s broadcast with breaking news in the investigation at mar-a-lago. the next phase of the battle between the justice department and all trump will take place in a florida courtroom tomorrow. both soils will appear before a trump appointed judge, alien cannon. she will be the one to decide whether to grant the former president s plea for a special master to go through those documents that were seized in his florida home. just a few hours ago, his legal team filed its response to the department of justices objections to having a third party review those documents, citing the need for a quote, independent attorney client privilege assessments and executive privilege determinations. in a court filing, revealed at this very hour last night, the justice department said a special master was not needed and revealed a whole lot of damning new
The first native americans the first alaskan native ever. jonathan allen and stewart stevens still with us. john huge upset in the very red state of alaska. what s your take care? well, number one, huge news for the democrats as their second straight special election in competitive environment, which they were supposed to be feeling headwinds. where they. once of new york 19th district just last week. and now you ve got alaska. of course you ve got a different voting system now right choice. and another big take away from this is that rank choice voting system really gives voters the ability to reject the candidate that they like the least. and in this case it was sarah palin. and, so it will be interesting to see whether that system is adopted elsewhere. and again we re gonna see these carrots on the ballot in november for a full term. so we will get another look at the new democrat-palooza palin and make vega. but for the short term they
Name for republicans in name only. what s getting the most pushback, the strongest pushback from republicans, the rnc calling january 6th legitimate political discourse. that s coming from some unusual suspects. one of them is don young, a long-serving republican from the red state of alaska. he put up a statement, he said, we must not legitimize those actions which resulted in loss of life. we must learn from that horrible event so history does not repeat itself, unquote. his colleague, senator lisa murkowski of alaska, also spoke out against this. that s her statement, her tweet, on the screen. she said, january 6th was an effort to overturn a lawful election resulting in violence and destruction at the capitol. she also said, we must not legitimize those actions which resulted in loss of life. murkowski is taking a political risk by speaking out here because she is up for reelection this year in the ruby red state of alaska.
Republicans have been doing, trying to denigrate him with what s happened with a rollout of obamacare, things even this week, his numbers are going up again. so you would encourage some of your most vulnerable senate democratic candidates to invite president obama to appear with them? yes, and they will. and brianna, there is actually going to be a meeting at the building you covered, the white house, to discuss this very thing reid divulged to us later this week to discuss just exactly where the president will go. maybe you re going to actually have a surprise trip to the red, red state of arkansas, maybe even go to the red, red state of alaska, if harry reid has anything to do with it. obviously going to be fascinated to see what those senators think of what reid is recommending. and the fascinating thing about this, dana, it s this is completely counter to conventional thinking. you would almost like put money on the president not going to arkansas, for instance. do you