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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 smith's 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 scott's backyard as he seems to very conveniently forget what he said about cutting social security. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. >> good evening everyone. i'm mohyeldin for stephanie ruhle. special counsel in...

on this thursday night. ighthis thursday n >> good evening everyone. i'm 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 january 6 one. not surprisingly sports people from both the vice president special counsel, they have d...

>> plus, a florida federal judge has thrown a wrench into the doj's investigation of the documents, many of them classified, seized from the former president's home at mar-a-lago. granting trump's request for a so-called special master to review the evidence. this temporarily prevents the justice dedepartment's investigative team from accessing thousands of documents taken from mar-a-lago. we'll have more on that in a moment. first, drew griffin joins us with the details of this newly obtained video from georgia county. we should note, taken the same day a voting machine was breached...

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...

The white house and provided to him for his analysis. so at least as she's written it, the judge is saying that she has a very expansive view of executive privilege. but i'm 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 doesn't apply there, but then it does apply on the other side of it, to doj, at least for right now. what are the pros and cons for the justice department of appealing this ruling? becaus...