possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 29th. it s pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid-may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. quote, identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential.
extremismes that threatens the very foundation of our republic. there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people. they refuse to accept the results of a free election. and promote authoritarian leadersor and flame the threatsf violence and a threat to our personal right, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law torque the very soul of this country. they look at the mob that stormed the united states capitol on january 6th, rudely attacking law enforcement, not as insurrection nists but place a dagger at the throat of our democracy and they look at them as patriots and see the maga failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the election as preparation for the 2022 and fo2024 elections, and now, america must choose
the affidavit, which would be unusual, insisting it could compromise its ongoing investigation. now this all comes as cnn has learned some allies of the former president are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago. his son eric trump says that will absolutely happen at the right time. plus, we re learning more about a separate probe of trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. overnight, the new york times reporting that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed white house documents from the national archives, asking for all materials in whatever form that were handed to the january 6th committee. what is clear is the investigations are ongoing. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz in west palm beach. ruling expected today or just the consideration? reporter: it is possible there could be a consideration. the judge could rule live in court or could decide to do it at a later time. but i j
in missouri the battle of the two trump endorsed candidates called eric has been decided. and we seem to projects that missouri eric schmidt has won the republican nomination for senate, defeating the former governor eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for tua publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jerry her rather butler s leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe can t. and congressman dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, let s go over to the big board and see what s going on right now. i say you ve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are looking at. a bit of a potential surprise here in arizona, kerry lake, the republican backed by donald trump, former newscaster up there in arizona, had let in the polling in this race, and i think came in today as the favorite. you can see we got a lot of the vot
released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. that s basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expected that vote would be the most favorable vote for karrin taylor robson so she needed to take the lead, she needed to build a little bit of a pad, because it was expected that the vote that was cast today, and then the final votes that will be kind of not till tomorrow, would be more favorable to kari lake. robson succeeded and getting a pad here. a pad of eight and a half points. it may well end up being enough to hold off lake. we are going to see some of the same day votes getting added here. like its number take up a little bit here. but robson came in today as the underdog. right now at 60% in, has a real shot at this. over the next couple hours, we re gonna see a trickle of the vote that was cast today get added to this. but that is basically gonna stop, and then maricopa county is the biggest one. here the