documents with classification marks. we are also learning additional details about the criminal justice implications possibly for the former president. he is calling federal prosecutors hacks and thugs tonight who had no write to storm his property and steal everything in sight in his words. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, david. good evening to you in this redacted affidavit we are seeing a picture of federal prosecutors who had an escalating concern about documents stored at the home of former president donald trump. in justifying its search, the sworn affidavit notes there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises referring to mar-a-lago. trump s team in january turned over 15 boxes of materials stored there. 15 of them containing 184 classified documents. 67 marked confidential. 25 marked labeled 25 top secret. the affidavit says some of the material a
this was not just extreme carelessness, with classified material. this is calculated, deliberative, premeditated misconduct, followed by a cover-up. then, new evidence. anti republican backlash, reshaping and another senate race. i asked democratic tent candidate, tim ryan, what s happening in ohio. a global catastrophe, and stark relief, as global drought room reveals sunken nazi ships in serbia, and dinosaur tracks and texas. that all starts right now. good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes, a florida judge has ordered a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit, outlining that they are casing it to be an steeled. the key word there is redacted. we don t know how much the document will be revealed. the doj, clearly, reluctant to release any of it, warning, it could jeopardize the investigation which is currently ongoing to the ex president. they are not directing to release the redacted document, we should see it anytime before tomorrow at 12 pm. this co
weeks ago. what we could learn when the document comes out. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former united states senator and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. we wake up to some news this morning. a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate will be made available to the public by at least noon today, possibly this morning. federal magistrate judge rhinehart yesterday ordered it to be unsealed after the justice department submitted the redacted version for him to review. in the order, he outlined which sections of the affidavit the government redacted before public release, saying, i find the government has met its burden of finding a compelling reason, a good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. because disclosure would reveal the identi
quote, narrowly tailored to serve the government s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation. media outlets, including nbc news, asked the judge to make it public. trump and his allies have also repeatedly called for it to be unsealed, although they ve made no formal motion to do so. so the question we ll be waiting to find out, what is it going to reveal about the doj s case against the former president. at least, why they had that search warrant. we ve got a team of experts standing by to answer that question and to help us dissect it once we have it. meanwhile, this morning, president biden is on the offense, turning up the heat on what he s call maga republicans. a big change in tone from president biden, slamming their philosophy during a fund-raiser in d.c., saying it s like semi-fascism. then he took that energy on the road last night to a campaign rally, it seemed, in maryland. they re a threat to our very democracy. they refuse to accept the
court nominee clarence thomas. televised hearings that featured blockbuster testimony from professor anita hill who detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by judge thomas who was her supervisor at two government agencies. after approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and tlling the world about it are the two most difficult experiences of my life. but when i was asked by a representative of this committee to report my experience, i felt that i had to tell the truth. the hearing sparked a national debate about sexual harassment and a time when such harassment went largely ignored and unpunished. it also brought attention to a troubling dynamic, the senate judiciary committee led by then senator joe biden was composed solely of old white guys. sharply and sometimes rudely questioning a black law professor about what happened to her. no women serve on that committee in 1991. well, that was about to