every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
weeks ago. what we could learn when the document comes out. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former united states senator and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. we wake up to some news this morning. a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate will be made available to the public by at least noon today, possibly this morning. federal magistrate judge rhinehart yesterday ordered it to be unsealed after the justice department submitted the redacted version for him to review. in the order, he outlined which sections of the affidavit the government redacted before public release, saying, i find the government has met its burden of finding a compelling reason, a good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. because disclosure would reveal the identi
growing anger and frustration in south texas and around the country following the release of new information and images concerning the law enforcement response to the uvalde school shooting. the latest report spreads blame for the failure to intervene across multiple agencies. senior correspondent casey stegall is in uvalde tonight. good evening, casey. bret, good evening. uvalde s mayor decided to release the body camera footage from the city police and it came after the texas house committee that was tasked with investigating this tragedy made public a 77 page report highlighting a series of failures that morning here. shots fired. get inside. go, go, go. 11:36 a.m. three minutes after the gunman entered robb elementary school, uvalde police are already on scene. one minute later. [gunfire] suspect fires at officers. positioned in the hallway and they retreat. at 11:38. an update goes out over the radio. he is armed inside this building. we have him contained. c
down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi, 11 sets of classified records were seized from trump s home, including some marked as top secret, meant only to be available in special government facilities. two other laws were also cited as a basis for the warrant pertaining to removing, destroying, or concealing records and obstruction of justice. according to the search warrant for mar-a-lago, agents were allowed to search trump s office, all storage rooms, and all other rooms available to trump, his staff, or anywhere documents could be
and they want any work paused before the potential third party review is done. so we want to bring in dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good early morning to you. i want to start here, is there any legitimacy to this request for a special master from the trump team or is this just another one of his delay tactics that we ve seen play out in cases throughout his long legal history? good morning, omar. it is a delay tactic because he is too late to ask for this. the whole thing is moot. this is what happens when you have trouble finding experienced criminal defense lawyers to represent you, you end up litigating the case in right wing media instead of a courtroom and then the clock runs out. because it is difficult to justify the extraordinary request for a special master two weeks after your home has been searched. you waited too long. and, you know, these documents have almost certainly been reviewed already by the department of justice. and that