good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we are tracking hurricane ian tonight as it closes in on florida s west coast. we just got the 11 pm forecast from the national hurricane center, and we ll bring you the latest on the huge storms path in just a moment. meanwhile, the january six committee has postponed tomorrow s hearing because of the storm. so far the hearing has yet to be rescheduled. but we are getting more video from a roger stone documentary that the committee is likely to feature once the hearing does happen. in one newly released clip, stone is heard talking about challenging the election results even before the election happened. what they are assuming is the election will be normal, the election will not be normal. oh these are the california result, sorry we re not expecting them, will challenge them in the court, if you actually show up at the electoral college, armed guards will show them a. on the president, a few, you re not stealing florida, i
need to continue to do to keep people safe. martha: her opponent went after that and more. here s a peek. the last four years have been disappointing at best. everything is more expensive, our communities are less safe. martha: so swing over to last night s big debate in wisconsin. there we see incumbent ron johnson facing up against mandela barnes who has had to back-pedal his own information about defunding the police. you have to keep violent criminals in jail. you have to support law enforcement. do you not claim credit for that, for the release of 2,000 to 3,000 people and at the same time attacking me for it? we ve been told nonviolent, people that rehabilitated themselves. this is the hypocrisy. he s attacking me for the same thing that he s doing. that s what debates are for. very interesting to see what is happening as these candidates face off. we have a big one tonight. here s the wisconsin race. 46-52. ron johnson was behind by a lot in wisconsin.
broken. i think my recommendation, my feeling that we should make referrals, but we will get to a decision as a committee. it may be the last investigative public hearing where we re going to try to round out the factual narrative. i m alex marquart in washington in tonight for pamela brown. thank you so much for joining me. you re live in the cnn newsroom. tropical storm ian on the cusp of becoming a hurricane. the storm is swirling toward the warm waters of the gulf where it s expected to explode into an intensity intensely powerful category 4. then ian will likely weaken a bit before charging ashore somewhere in florida. florida s governor saying that the storm s massive size means that the entire state will be impacted, and he has activated the national guard. just moments ago the national hurricane center issued its latest advisory. cnn meteorologist in the weather center. tom, what are we expecting from ian? let me tell you like it is here, alex. this infrared
joe o dea is an interesting candidate. many people call it leaning likely dem for michael bennett. we ll see what happens there. the president as you know struggles with tough approval numbers. 44% for joe biden right now. and that s clearly why they re staying away, he and the vice president. she s around 37 and change. they re not going near these tight races across the country. fox news sunday anchor shannon bream and david asman both here to analyze what s going on in the race with 27 days to go. let s make a stop with peter doocy who is with the president in cape hail, colorado. what is the focus there today, peter? good afternoon, martha. president biden is not giving in to calls from critics to drill more here in the united states as gas prices go up and up. in fact, he s doing the opposite. today in colorado, he s going to announce new bans on drilling and mining on about 225,000 acres here. he s also going to designate camp hail a monument to the tenth mountain d
the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea