i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context the house may not have had before. and the second thing it does, it has a federal judge on paper looking at documents that could potential evidence and saying what they actually mean. and his finding is that these ema
barr, who did much of donald trump s bidding during the russia investigation, defends the fbi decision to seize classified documents from the former president s florida estate. this as we learn more about what was found in the search, including dozens of empty folders marked classified. plus, the former president sharpens his attacks against federal law enforcement, calling the fbi and doj, quote, vicious monsters, while warning of unprecedented backlash. how will his supporters interpret that? and president biden hits the campaign trail this labor day, visiting two key battleground states, pennsylvania and wisconsin, both union strongholds. we ll have a preview of his holiday campaign events. good morning. it is monday, september 5th. welcome to a special labor day edition of morning joe. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your holiday with us. we now have a clearer account of what the fbi seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home in palm be
4095, that is how many lawsuits former president donald trump or his organization, has been involved in, according to usa today. and they cover everything from defamation, contract disputes, personal injury, and more. and they spanned three decades. donald trump has been the defendant in almost 2000 of those civil suits. but the former president has never been a defendant in a criminal trial. if that changes, the trump playbook we have grown so familiar with, the path he nears, the vengeful outbursts, the dangerous lies, they will have no power there. the former president is connected to criminal investigations on multiple fronts. there is the justice department s investigation on trump s handling of classified documents, which most recently was a federal judge says he is inclined to unseal parts of the search affidavit and has ordered the justice department to make redactions. then, there s trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. his former white hous