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world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." this hour, donald j. trump faces a congressional subpoena as the january 6th select committee closes a very significant phase of its investigation and weighs its next moves. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has details on todays very dramatic hearing. >> we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. >> reporter: an extraordinary move from the january 6th select committee. >> those i...

chuck rosenberg, matt miller joins us, former special advisor on communications for the nsa, and former chief spokesperson for the department of justice. and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. youve had a bit more time, tell us what else weve learned. >> i mean, i think its significant, especially in those photos that you discussed in the last hour, that show just how this ...

for msnbc news, -- matt miller joins us, former special advisor on communications for the nsa, and former chief spokesperson for the department of justice. and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. youve had a bit more time, tell us what else weve learned. >> i mean, i think its significant, especially those photos that you discussed in the last hour, that show just how this w...

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so walk us through. >> hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retri...

brief, revealing new details. this filing was 19 page es. it did acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago earlier this month. but essentially, it says it wasnt a big deal. says quote, the proported initiation for the probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. but this discovery, end quote, was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of presidential records. simply put, the notion that preside...

shouldnt have triggered an fbi search. lets go the evan perez this morning. >> good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sens...

judge to appoint a special master, an independent third party, to review what the fbi seized at his florida estate. trump also wants a more detailed receipt of what was taken by the feds. and for the government to return any seized documents that were, quote, not within the scope of the search warrant. >> while trump attempted to get his hands on those records, investigators are trying to track down additional surveillance footage from mar-a-lago. according to "the new york times," thi...

and various documents were marked as top secret sensitive compartmentalized information. this would be material so te sensitive that the u.s. goes to excruciating efforts to conceal it. only people with top clearance can read them, and they have to do it in a scif. these scifs require a special lock and have re-enforced walls and electronic methods to prevent spying. im going to go to katelyn polantz. you have the warrants. what else are we learning? >> theres more information in here ...

Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. On...