russia s invasion began. today president biden is set to meet with the families of two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner. a humanitarian crisis at the southern border, political games are being waged with human lives as we learn more about how dozens of migrants arrived in martha s vineyard and how the community is coming to their aid. the boil water advisory in jackson, mississippi is now lifted after a water crisis lasted nearly seven weeks. but will residents drink it? and we begin this friday with major developments into the investigation of classified documents recovered from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. last night a judge in florida formally appointed new york senior district judge raymond dearie to be the special master to review the thousands of documents seized during last month s search. he was the only candidate acceptable to trump and the justice department. the judge also denied the department s request for continued acces
members of brittney griner and paul whelan are set to meet with president biden. and i ll meet with former ambassador brown as the line extends for more than five miles wanting to pay their respects to queen elizabeth. and the prince and princess of wales today before the funeral. good district attorney i m andrea mitchell in washington. where merrick garland s justice department lost all requests to a florida judge to allow them to continue using classified documents seized at mar-a-lago for now. this will delay the criminal investigation. judge aileen cannon handing mr. trump another legal victory by putting a especially master in charge of the documents. judge raymond dearie, a senior judge from new york, respected by both sides, will have until november 30th to sift through thousands of papers to determine if any documents are privileged. meanwhile, the former president is predicting trouble if he s indicted. i think if it happened, i think you d have problems in th
good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. good morning. great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china s stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it s not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. more exclusive cnn reporting. sparking an international response, protests erupting in sudan after a cnn investigation revealed russia is plundering sue began s goal to help finance putt putt putin s war in ukraine. tell us more. we have known for some time about russia s project to buttress itself against the u.s. sanctions regime ptbut what we haven t been able to pin down is the mechanisms of the invasio
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
department of homeland security wanted to try to recover those deleted secret service messages from around the time of the january 6th attack on the capitol. but then the trump-appointed agency, watchdog step in. mika, did someone gel on that. that doesn t make sense on any level for any department in government. i don t, something is definitely wrong and perhaps. steve kornacki is standing by to help break down leaks which feature a number of candidates who deny the 2020 election results. what is the anger meter, the rage meter this morning. well, the rage will join us. the rage will be on. he s going to be here? we re very lucky, joe. i thought he only did rodeos in august. we re very, very lucky, the rage is back. one of the reasons we re going to be hearing from rusty. there he is. wow, just got a chill down my spine. we ll hear from rusty bowers. the arizona speaker who may pay the price for the 2020 election and testifying before it before the janu