and tearful families saying good-bye to loved ones departing for training. putin wants 300,000 new fighters to help turn the tide as the russian military suffers setbacks in ukraine. russia is saying the call up would be limited to those with military experience but reports say civilians also now are being conscripted. the new york times tells the story of a husband and father of five who received a summons at a 4:00 a.m. meeting where a train had been organized to take him to a military center. many men are fleeing russia to avoid the forced enlistment. this is traffic as people escape to nearby georgia. russian airporting have been packed with people trying to get out of the country. one human rights group said more than 1,300 people have been arrested in anti-car protests in moscow and st. petersburg over the past few days. also today, voting begins in four regions of russian-occupied ukraine, in a sham referendum that could lead to the annexation of 15% of ukrainian ter
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
probe into an ex-president s handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to balance protecting the prosecutorial process by keeping secret details of the investigation and providing enough information to defend his decision to request a search unlike any other in history. the impending release of a critical document in doj s investigation into the ex-president is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. carol leonnig is here and former national security adviser to president obama and neal katyal is back former solicitor general and now law
Who refused to clear an encampment are now facing suspension. We are live with the campus crackdown. Return to gaza, World Central Kitchen resuming operations nearly one months after a Deadly Strike killed seven aid workers. Their new mission after tragedy. Plus, seeking justice. The civil lawsuit just filed on Behalf Of A Black Missouri Teen shot in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell. He was just indicted as a fake elector for donald trump, why is an arizona lawmaker being tapped for a top job at the rnc. Our reporters are following the latest developments. We want to get right to Antonia Hylton at Columbia University. Students were told they would be suspended if they did not leave by this minute. It seems theres an awful lot of tents there. Whats happening . Reporter youre exactly right, chris. The tents are all still here. The students are marching around the entire central section of campus here chanting, we will divest. Theyre chanting free palestine. They are not letting up
it is good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. we start with that breaking news out of fulton county, georgia, a major admission from the lawyer for one of donald trump s codefendants in that sweeping rico case. nbc s blayne alexander is following that. for folks who weren t here, setting the stage, fani willis, the d.a. went to the judge after some videos were linked of people who had turned evidence and said, i need a protective order. but we didn t know who might have leaked those videos. what just happened in court? reporter: well, we now know at least one of the people who leaked the videos. it was an attorney for one of the 15 remains codefendants. jonathan miller, he represents misty hanson, one of the 15 codefendants, just said during this open hearing, during this virtual hearing in open court that he did leak the videos to at least one media outlet, and so he kind of gave a small preamble said that in order to make sure he can sleep