if cruelty is the point, what is the cost? as the 11th hour gets underway this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. and we ve got breaking news tonight in the case of donald trump versus the usa, also known as the justice departments investigation of classified documents seized from the former guys florida club. tonight, judge aileen cannon at the doj s deadline and appointed a special master to go through the material that the fbi found during the search. judge raymond j. dearie submitted, by trump s legal team and agreed to by doj lawyers, we ll be getting the job. he now has until november 30th to complete his review. but judge aileen cannon denied a key doj request to continue reviewing classified material as part of its criminal investigation. the doj has said it would appeal the judges ruling to the 11th circuit, so stay tuned. meanwhile, nbc news has confirmed that trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, on your screen, right there, has com
this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. and we ve got breaking news tonight in the case of donald trump versus the usa, also known as the justice departments investigation of classified documents seized from the former guys florida club. tonight, judge aileen cannon at the doj s deadline and appointed a special master to go through the material that the fbi found during the search. judge raymond j. dearie submitted, by trump s legal team and agreed to by doj lawyers, we ll be getting the job. he now has until november 30th to complete his review. but judge aileen cannon denied a key doj request to continue reviewing classified material as part of its criminal investigation. the doj has said it would appeal the judges ruling to the 11th circuit, so stay tuned. meanwhile, nbc news has confirmed that trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, on your screen, right there, has complied with the subpoena from the justice department s investigation into t
Strategy or what she and her supporters think they can accomplish here. i think as vaughn mentioned, this is very deeply rooted in the approach that donald trump took to 2020 to make claims of fraud torks make specious claims of election denial u. the new strategy if you re an extremist and can t win, you try to get individual election administrators to take the action themselves to muck up the machinery of the process. we saw this in 2020. they tried to refuse the wayne county vote. we re seaing this now in cochise county. we saw this it in pennsylvania. it is welcomeing a new pat herb for the more extremist right arm of the republican party.
Including 100 that were marked classified. today, mr. trump saying he verbally declassified every document he had taken with him to mar-a-lago. i have the absolute right to declassify. absolutely. a president has that absolute right. mr. trump s legal team, however, has not explicitly said in its findings, that the president declassified all the documents. okay, so right there, melissa murray. if trump did declassify this, his legal team would absolutely file that. but they didn t because then they would be potentially perjuring themselves. what does it mean what does it mean that trump now says, i declassified, it on hugh hewitt s show. could this now come back to bite him? as he locked himself into a defense? i don t know if it s necessarily something that will come back to bite him. he says a number of things at any given time. and most of those things are speeches and this is certainly one of the most specious claims. if in fact he was able to declassify all of thes
Declassify. absolutely. a president has that absolute right. mr. trump s legal team, however, has not explicitly said in its findings, that the president declassified all the documents. okay, so right there, melissa murray. if trump did declassify this, his legal team would absolutely file that. but they didn t because then they would be potentially perjuring themselves. what does it mean what does it mean that trump now says, i declassified, it on hugh hewitt s show. could this now come back to bite him? as he locked himself into a defense? i don t know if it s necessarily something that will come back to bite him. he says a number of things at any given time. and most of those things are speeches and this is certainly one of the most specious claims. if in fact he was able to declassify all of these documents and to do so verbally, there would be a huge procedure