server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
upcoming elections. but first big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one includes spreading lies about the 2020 vote. we start with our breaking news. the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. sara murray joins us with that story. sources have told us that this is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search so you could imagine that trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. that s because the justice department has insisted to them in private discussions as well as publically in court filings that they believe that the former president still has government documents, even after the subpoena he was given, even after the august search at mar-a-lago. so this would be a potential way to try to satisfy the government s demands. there are of course people around former president tru
in a moment we ll be joined by senator bernie sanders to discuss democrats chances in the upcoming midterm elections, less than three weeks away. big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one involves potential criminal liability for his conduct spreading election lies about the 2020 vote. we ll get to that in a moment. we ll start, though, with breaking news, sources telling cnn the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. cnn s sara murray joins us now with that story. what have we learned about this? sources have told us that there is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search. you can imagine trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. the justice department has insisted in private discussion as well as publicly in court filings that they believe that the former president still h
category 4 storm leaving a huge path of destruction and millions in the dark this morning. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, rescue crews have been busy trying to get people who decided to ride out the storm to try and save them. they re stranded now by rising flood waters and we re still tracking ian as it slowly makes its way across florida. at this hour, it still has more to go. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, september 29th. joe is off this morning. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. without power this morning, first light this morning will begin to show the damage in florida. that s right. that s when we re going to start to see the story of what happened last night, what happened overnight. tropical storm now ian downgraded from a category 1 hurricane. in just the last hour, but still wreaking havoc across florida as it made landfall as a
capabilities was found by fbi agents. it s not clear what the document is and what the country is but the list is small there s eight other countries besides the u.s. with nuclear capabilities. the post also reports, some of the seized documents detail top secret operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, members of the cabinet or near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know these details of the special access programs. this reporting has not been confirmed yet by nbc news and the justice department declined to comment but what the president s spokesman is saying about it. and troubles for a top trump ally. nearly two years after being pardoned, steve bannon is expected to face a new criminal indictment in new york and turn himself in tomorrow. details on that case. and this afternoon, a reunion at the white house. former president barack obama and first