joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite bizarre. what they re saying
give us a picture of what we might have come november. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. there is a lot to talk about. bill: every tuesday this summer we ve been doing this. dana: you have an update for everyone. the races in florida and new york are drawing intrigue. drama is new york 12th district to force nadler and maloney into a fight for their political lives and trying to unseat them is patel. there is a special election for an open seat in congress in upstate new york. it could be a bellwether for november. the democrat campaigning hard on abortion rights. dana: in florida we re waiting to see who will emerge as the democratic challenger to governor ron desantis. charlie crist and nicki freed are vying for that nomination. the republican governor sounding confident this morning. we have people that want to visit, have moved here. lower unemployment rate now than prior to covid. you continue to see us adding jobs in sp
this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what s going on in new york? martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york s we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she s the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. i m the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war
the most attention for critical elections that could reshape some of the most powerful roles in congress. hello, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. john: sandra, great to see on this tuesday. i m john roberts, this is america reports. maloney and time to an end. new york democrats facing off in the newly redrawn 12th congressional district. one of the most hostile races of the year, with maloney questioning nadler s capacity to serve another term. sandra: and john, in florida, matt gaetz goes up against two challenges in another test of the former president s influence. and marco rubio will see who he will face in november. john: and aishah hasnie is in clearwater, florida. sandra: bryan in new york city, 17th congressional district received the attention of democratic party superstars. yes, good afternoon, it has. the one hand, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez endorsing the progressive candidate, state senator alexandria biagi, an
information. not where you want that information. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 23rd. let s start with the news. we begin with that reporting on what sparked the fbi search for classified materials at mar-a-lago two weeks ago. sources tell the new york times the government has recovered more than 300 documents marked as classified from donald trump so far. those documents returned in january included more than 150 classified documents. according to the times, quote, the number ignited intense concern at the justice department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led fbi agents to swoop into in to mar-a-lago this month seeking to recover more. multiple people briefed on the matter tell the times the former president personally went through 15 boxes before handing them over in january. the paper quotes, reports quote, the highly sensitive nature of some of the material in the boxes prompted archives officials to refer