get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
tothe progressive paradigm known as martha s vineyard which makes sense. 7-yard it s a vineyard and those grape. i assume there is going to be plenty of work on a vineyard. but i wouldn t know. i m not allowed there. not since barack s birthday party. should have seen his face when i jumped out of the cake. the g string was a little bit too much. and i was wearing one too. the coverage has been hysterical as if sending migrants from a sweltering part of texas to the most luxurious spot in america hosts of obama, larry david, john kerry, is somehow cruel and inhumane punishment. but maybe it is cruel. you know who also lives there? james taylor. i know. i wonder if he has a comment. you are going to love martha s vineyard mama i d come join you but my legs are injured larry david lives here and meg ryan too obama loves it and so will you by the way what happened to meg ryan martha s vineyard it s an island greg: it s an island! excel
and the collapse of kremlin troops in the east does not mean they are good. weather could radically affect the battlefield, and keeps top allies when the conflict is not over. here is the u.s. president tuesday when asked if the ukraine s counteroffensive is a turning point in the war. the question is it s hard to tell. it s clear the ukrainians have made significant profit u.s.. but it s gonna be a long haul. among the liberated cities of eastern, ukraine izium russian logistics hub after is captured by russian ukrainian forces. here s more in an exclusive report. it has been a stunning advance. ukrainians route of russian invaders has recaptured 6000 square climbers, ukraine s president. says this land was held by russia just a few days ago. now, it s providing a rich harvard to ukraine s army of abandoned russian equipment. the russian z symbol painted over. the guns ready to kill russians. the recapture of izyum, a strategic prize, accelerated by precision strik
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we have brand-new information this evening about the january 6th committee accusing former president donald trump of trying to contact a witness during the investigation. nbc news has confirmed reporting that the witness was a member of the white house support staff. at the end of yesterday s hearing liz cheney said that the matter had been referred to the justice department. this afternoon, the committee s chair person was asked about cheney s comments. are we going to hear from this witness? i would doubt it. we re concerned obviously about the witness, and we do not want to put that witness under unnecessary pressure. is there enough evidence that there was an attempt to influence the witness? from my vantage point, it is highly unusual to do that. that s why we, more or less, put that in the hands of the justice department. is this just one missed phone call from the former president? that s all i m aware of. as
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