cases. president biden preparing to take a crack at the recent battle. the president is on display on other issues. how soon can we do this? send a note to president biden because the answer is we can do it right now. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. i know it s cold, but i home you all see the sun wherever you happen to be waking up this morning. that is a beautiful shot of atlanta at this hour, 7:01. this morning, there are millions of people in texas waking up again to below freezing temperatures after the brutal winter storm hit this week. yeah. power has been restored to most of the state, more than 14 million texans either do not have running water in their homes or have to boil the water they do have. officials say it could be days. you know the storm crippled the power grid and shut down coronavirus sightings and killed more than two dozen people. there s good news here, temperatures are expected to rise in the coming day
break day in the search of the missing oceangate vessel and planes and ships from all over the world are involved, and now a hyperbaric chamber is brought nearby. and today, the white house and president biden are welcoming in prime minister of ind india narendra modi to the white house. but some in his own party may skip the state dinner. and new updates with the power weather hitting the northwest towns of texas. now, at least one remote operating vessel has reached ocean s floor. one canadian ship has arrived on the scene carrying a medical team specializing in dive medicine and a hyperbar rick chamber has been brought on board. we are learning that there are several safety concerns, and learning of several safety concerns of that diving vehicle were raised in the years arngd specifically the thickness of the submersible hull and the battery and the materials used to build it. a former subcontractor who worked with oceangate says that the low-tech features were by di
reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga
tonight on why he s been calling for all court papers to be made public but not doing so in the place that it matters most, the courtroom. clarissa ward is in afghanistan and her harrowing return to a place deeply affected by the war and what she found when she got there one year after american troops departed. we begin with the search at mar-a-lago and the fight against unce unsealing documents. jessica, walk us through what the judge ordered today. anderson, the judge telling doj to go back to the drawing board and find a way to release some of this information from the affidavit. the judge is telling prosecutors two things. propose redactions but also better explain why they need to keep large sections of this secret. so the judge has set a deadline. he wants their recommendations next thursday at noon. after that point the judge says he might have additional confidential discussions with doj before he makes that final decision about what to release. parts of it are li
details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, it s key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that it s that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released was the motion to seal, and it has federal prosecutors expressing their concern that, as you can see there, evidence might be destroyed. and, you know anderson, that could explain why fbi agents were really compelled to move in and spent hours taking, you know, 11 steps of classified documents in the end. could you just explain what the doj s main argument against releasing the affidavit is? yeah, they ve been arguing this in their papers, they also argued it forcefully in court