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president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel in his january six investigation. what it could tell us about where jack smiths probe is going. then, the first gop led so-called weaponization hearing to investigate the investigators. what happened in that room and what they hope to accomplish. and president biden back on the trail right in rick scotts backyard as he seems to very conveniently forget what he said about cutting social security. as the 11th hour gets underway on th...

on this thursday night. ighthis thursday n >> good evening everyone. im ayman mohyeldin for stephanie ruhle. special counsel investigating donald trump just made his most aggressive move yet. nbc news has learned former vice president mike pence has been subpoenaed by jack smith. he is overseeing cases involving the classified documents the long trump took with him to mar-a-lago and january 6th attack on the capital. now this subpoena depends, is related on that investigation, the janu...

>> plus, a florida federal judge has thrown a wrench into the dojs investigation of the documents, many of them classified, seized from the former presidents home at mar-a-lago. granting trumps request for a so-called special master to review the evidence. this temporarily prevents the justice dedepartments investigative team from accessing thousands of documents taken from mar-a-lago. well have more on that in a moment. first, drew griffin joins us with the details of this newly obtai...

reporter ryan riley and kelly odonnell. im 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? >> thats right. its a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was go...

The white house and provided to him for his analysis. so at least as shes written it, the judge is saying that she has a very expansive view of executive privilege. but im struggling very much to figure out what she means and how she plans to implement this. this is really quite -- this decision is quite unmoored from practicality. >> right. to let odni go forward with one part of it, so executive privilege doesnt apply there, but then it does apply on the other side of it, to doj, at least for ...

Arguments steve bannon is on the executive privilege front. does he have a stronger case? remember, steve bannon trying to make the case and he was a private citizen. didnt work anywhere but for himself. >> yeah, steph. no doubt. mark meadows having been chief of staff will have a more robust executive privilege claim than steve bannon. steve bannon has zero claim to executive privilege and basically the courts acknowledge that. heres the thing. there is this thing called waiver by disclosure. i...