douglas how hard it was to get classified documents away from trump when he was in office. plus, the gen z whisper joins us he says the key to pulling off a blue wave, not a red one, is young voters. and speaking of gen z, 25-year-old maxwell alejandro could make history this fall. i ll ask him what his plans are if he is elected to congress from a safe blue seed in florida. good evening, i m mehdi has on. it has become increasingly clear if it wasn t before, that one of the 45 men in american history who have said in the oval office, who descended to the highest office in the land, donald j trump, posed a threat or national security while in office and continues to pose one now, even after office. just think about the enormity of that statement. think about the fact that trump is a former republican president. because in this country, for decades now, democratic presidents and presidential candidates have been often successfully portrayed by the gop as threats to natio
documents. we ll have the very latest on the redacted copy of the mar-a-lago affidavit and what could be coming from the january 6 committee. plus, is the gop already conceding senate races in two states? what we re learning about the major pact that s pulling millions of dollars in advertising. and we re almost ready for liftoff. we ll be joined by a nasa astronaut ahead of the artemis launch later this morning. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 29th, i m jonathan lemire. glad to be back. thanks for joining us this morning. there s new reaction after a heavily-redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago was unsealed friday afternoon of the 36-page affidavit revealed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. th
un- crude capsule tomorrow morning that will stay in space for about a month or so. going further than any spacecraft design for humans is ever gone. there were some safety concerns though yesterday went lightning strikes as you can see hit the launchpad area. officials say now, all systems are go. coxey bottom line is we look really good. there are no concerns, no constraints from the lightning events at this point. but we are trying to be very proactive looking ahead and evaluating those things and adjusting as required. knowing we ll get some weather as we head to the last few days. before the excitement is on and jonathan serrie at the space center with the very latest. hey there eric, behind me see the rocket on launchpad at 39 to be getting ready for what they will be lift off tomorrow morning. the artemis one mission has a two hour launch window opens at 8:30 3:00 a.m. eastern time. at the start of that window is only 20% chance of whether it will cause any sort of d
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trump s lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national children s told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence committees that her office would conduct a risk assessment of republican mar-a-lago materials. democratic lawmakers in both chambers of congress expressed concerns over the former president s handling of documents. the thought that he had put our national security, and those who serve to protect us at such risk is extraordinary. i m deeply alarmed at what we are learning. it is not about whether donald trump broke the law, but that he could be putting our national security at risk, he could be
let s start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. there s one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in what s become a stream of revelations. the washington post out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they retrieved 15 boxes from mar-a-lago. at first archives officials believed that the fbi wasn t taking the documents issued seriously and they grew frustrated according to people familiar with the document dispute and agents interviewed trump s current and former advisors asking what material was in them and who was responsible for the packing and what might still be at the florida club according to a person who was questioned, quote, they interviewed almost everyone who worked for him, a trump