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
people. and i never know million years saw this coming and. i think the conclusion that i came to is that there really been two strains in the republican party post-world war ii. an eisenhower strain, which was a boring, conservative governing strain. and then mccarthy strain, conspiratorial, non governing, xenophobic, of all generations. and i think a lot of us, who work particularly for george w. bush, and the idea of compassionate conservative-ism, we assume we are the dominant team. that for no other reason other than political necessity, because the constitution was changing so much, that we saw this dark side. and we probably plate that darkside too much. i have said, you know, i was the guy who try to elect people. i was good at it. i thought a lot more about winning elections then saving the country. and i regret that deeply. and i do not know what to do about it now, except to sound this alarm and to try and go out. it s what we are doing with the lincoln project, and use the
how did we get here in terms of the gop? listen, you know, stephanie, there are a lot of people who are wrong about donald trump in 2016. but it s harder to find anyone more wrong than me. i did not think he had when the primary, i did not think he d win the general. and when he did, i had asked myself a lot of tough questions. how is it that i did not see this? and there is sort of a trove of books that people write about washington, if only they could listen to me. i can write that book, because they did listen to me. i helped elect a lot of these people. and i never know million years saw this coming and. i think the conclusion that i came to is that there really been two strains in the republican party post-world war ii. an eisenhower strain, which was a boring, conservative governing strain. and then mccarthy strain,