obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
members of his family, including the first lady, in that courthouse. the prosecution aware of that during closing arguments, and what the prosecutor told the jury about the family sitting in those front rows. also breaking tonight, donald trump s interview with a new york probation officer. that interview required of all convicted felons. what that probation officer will now do with the judge set to sentence trump in weeks. the chilling new images here from inside the israeli operation to rescue four hostages in gaza. the moment soldiers find three of them. coming under fire while getting them out. israeli special forces posing as palestinian refugees. saying, we got the diamonds. when they found the hostages. you ll see these harrowing images from the inside. here in the u.s. at this hour, the severe weather threat and the record heat across multiple states. then all of this heading east. and florida bracing for potential flooding, up to 20 inches of rain. also, th
you re going to have to do what is right for the country, not just right for your party or for yourself, but for the country. if we have that leadership, i am very confident that we can have an american renaissance. former secretary of defense and cia director, leon panetta, thank you very much for joining us this morning. thank you. good to be with you. good to be with you, as well. ahead in our fourth hour, we re going to speak with another former secretary of defense, chuck hagel will join us. also ahead, in just over about 90 minutes, steve bannon will turn himself in to new york police. we ll go live outside the courthouse for that. and later, an nbc news exclusive interview with reality winner, the ex-nsa translator who was arrested in 2017 for leaking one classified document. her first reaction to the thousands of documents found at
locked to his wrist. he would come into my office and would say, you have to look at this immediately, secretary. he would unlock the briefcase, he d stand there, give me this document that had really delicate, secret information about something of importance. i would read it, i d sign i had read it, it d go back into the locked box, attached to his wrist and off he would go. so i don t understand how these documents ended up where they are. yeah. i don t understand how he was permitted to take them, even to the residence, let alone a country club in florida. i don t understand it. joe, there s hillary clinton laying out, of course, she had the server in her house, and that was the focus of the 2016 campaign while she was secretary of state. a state department investigation under president trump, donald
documents. yeah. as all of us raised over the last three weeks, we still don t know why. again, it looks increasingly like we have not seen the document, don t have proof, but the washington post reported repeatedly that at least one of the documents pertains to a nuclear weapon in a. [speaking non-english] in a foreign country. is lindsey graham pretending there is an effort? there s always leaking in washington. the point is did the president break a serious law here or not? if he broke it, to get to joe s question, should he, given the evidence, be indicted or not? everything else is just distraction and an attempt to get us to look at the bird, look at the squirrel, and not focus on what we need to focus on here. by the way, i d love a search on how many times marco rubio complained and wined about the fbi office in new york leaking