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Transcripts For MSNBC Morning Joe 20240706

already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason

Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:56:00

the former president s legal team recently gave the justice department a folder with classified markings on it. the official said the folder was found last month at mar-a-lago in florida and was handed over voluntarily to the doj. it is unclear what level of classification markings were on the folder or what it may have contained. at the same time, the guardian reports trump s lawyers turned over an empty manila folder mark ed classified eveningbriefing after the justice department issued a subpoena for it last month. once prosecutors became aware it was located inside mar-a-lago that s according to two sources familiar to the matter. in addition, around the same time that trump s layers turned over the empty folder, they also returned, in december, a box of presidential schedules at mar-a-lago, of which a couple were marked classified. in january, a laptop on to which

Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:57:00

the contents of the box had been scanned last year by a junior aide. let s bring in the reporter behind the story. political investigations reporter for the guardian, hugo lowell. i understand that empty folder light might have been a prop, to look like he was busy, i guess? what would he use that as a prop for? yeah, so the justice department, you know, we understand, issued a subpoena for this folder. because it was located or seen in trump s bedroom on his night stand. as you can imagine, that really alarmed the justice department. i think, you know, trump s lawyer described on cnn yesterday it was supposedly being used to cover a blue light that was flashing on his bedside table. it was part of this conference call/phone landline system he has in his room. but i think the fact that this classified briefing folder was in his bedroom, and the fact he

Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 12:26:00

speech, free press, journalism. i mean, it s almost like it s all right now to do what they did to khashoggi. well, you know, after trump lost the election, biden had said during his campaign that he d make sure saudi arabia was treated like the, quote, pariah, unquote, they are. we now know biden went to the fist bump, famously, with the crown prince under a sort of real politic decision that they, in fact, did have to deal with saudi arabia. so that s where we are. in fact, very importantly, there was a case here in washington, d.c., where there was an effort to bring some justice to this case. the u.s. government basically said, because bin salman has simultaneously been promoted to the prime minister, that he had immuity from this case. it meant he had immunity in other efforts going on in other places in the world. it is possible, efforts are

Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 12:27:00

still ongoing to bring justice to the case. but he was immune in this important washington, d.c. case, and they let him off the hook, according no those allied with khashoggi. they do feel this was a way that win salman did escape being held accountable. all right. political investigative reporter for the washington post, michael, thank you so much. greatly appreciate you being here. jonathan lemire, we re talking about $2 billion here. we could also talk about all the things that happened every day that donald trump was in the white house where he cashed in in a way that, again, it s remarkable nobody wants to investigate on the republican side of congress. just look. you know, he buys the trump hotel in washington before he s president. has it when he is president. you know, quietly, foreign leaders understand, if they want to be in the president s good graces, they have to stay there. it becomes sort of the hotbed.

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