today. see you back here monday, same time, same place, 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good morning it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific any minute now attorney general merrick garland is expected to make a major announcement about charges against dozens of mexican drug cartels leaders and members. also the suspect in the biggest leak of military intelligence in decades appeared in court last hour what we re learning about how the suspected leaker got access to the classified documents. and breaking just moments anegotiation the legal battle over the abortion pill headed to the supreme court. and we are live in south florida where officials are assessing millions of dollars in damage from massive flooding after historic 26-inch rainfall. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the department of justice. there you see the podium set up. two senior law enforcement
conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more compl
to review documents for attorney/client privilege. is this sort of telling us what they re finding now? exactly. this is the status report of what that team this team, this filter team, that s what they re called, was involved with from the beginning when the search warrant was executed at mar-a-lago. former president trump s lawyers want a special master, an independent person to conduct the review. the judge told doj tell us what you ve done so far, it s been three weeks since you ve had these documents. that s what the new filing says, it s identified a limited set of materials that could possibly be covered by attorney/client privilege. they said they completed this review and have begun the process of going over anything where there could be a dispute. the search warrant lays out different ways that they were planning to handle a dispute, possibly going to the judge in private and saying, judge, do you think this could be covered by attorney/client privilege? setting
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
know who nancy is. we believe this is his fiance but chelsea decided her next mission is to figure out who nancy was and maybe find her family too. oh, aaron gilchrist, thank you. a beautiful, beautiful story. thank you so much. it is exactly the top of the hour. the fourth hour of morning joe. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we begin this hour from new reaction of a unsealing of a redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former donald trump s mar-a-lago home. it is also a club. the 36-page affidavit reed 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. the affidavit states that in mid may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. 15. and identified documents with classi