Night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening with the scope of the Special Counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. The latest revelation that investigators executed a Search Warrant of Donald Trumps twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. Here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. The twitter files that the Justice Department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the invest
guy. ashley is here. the case has baffled investigators over a decade. today, police finally identify the suspect. greg sherman is a demon that walks among us. a predator that ruins families. if not for the members of this task force, he would still be on tp streets today. 59-year-old rex herman. he pled not guilty. he did say in tears that i didn t do this. we didn t have any evidence, this is the beginning of the case. everybody is presumed innocent in our country. early this morning, police swarmed his home on long island. it is not far from where the bodies were found. the charges are linked to three murders, all women and he s the prime suspect for a fourth that may be connected as many as ten. the investigation begins in 2010 with the search of missing 23-year-old shannon gilberts. police discovered the bodies of four other women now down as the gilgo four. back in january, they found dna on pizza crusts that connected him to three of the murders. documents
competitively that republicans flipped four seats, ultimately handing the republican party the majority in the house, and kevin mccarthy, the gavel, we re going to work on the lights. now, democrats have a chance to try once more. a state appellate court threw out the maps again. a major win for the party. we re going to explain what happened because if that ruling stands, the democratic party has a serious shot at retaking the house next year. especially since the needs of front line republicans, the moderate ones who won, like toes here in new york are being sacrificed by kevin mccarthy to appease the conservative wing of the party. the amendments added to the defense version of the budget focusing on culture war issues like abortion, diversity, critical race theory, transgender medicine and covid vaccines. what does the democratic party do now, and what does kevin mccarthy do now? let s bring in nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake and msnbc legal analy
i m anderson cooper. you may have heard the u.s. surgeon general issued a warning that social media carries what he called a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescence. it s something all of us who are parents are worried about. because of a law passed in the mid-1990s, social media companies are shielded from almost all responsibility for the content their users post, no matter how untrue or harmful it may be. but now with billions of people online, the question is, have things spiraled out of control? we spoke with three families who are taking on some of the biggest social media companies in an uphill legal battle in an effort to change the way the internet works. some of the topics in the next hour including eating disorders and suicide and can be disturbing to watch. good morning. are you getting on, mom? yeah, let s get on. reporter: a tour bus through washington in spring is typically full of kids. oh, my. reporter
involving everything from military strikes to cyber attacks. so why hasn t it happened yet? . and we re learning more about a potential israeli hostage deal just one day after the families of american hostages brought their questions and concerns to the white house. i ll talk to one of the women who was there about the possibility of a new deal and what the u.s. is doing to force the issue. but i want to begin with that contentious hearing on capitol hill, demanding answers from the ceos of the world s biggest social media companies, focusing largely on child sexual exploitation on their platforms. the heads of facebook and instagram, snap, tiktok, discord and x, formerly known as twitter, facing intense pressure from senators on both sides of the aisle. when a boeing plane lost a door in mid flight several weeks ago, nobody questioned the decision to ground a fleet of over 700 planes. so why aren t we taking the same type of decisive action on the danger of these platfo