everyone around him. expedition to see if they can concoct evidence of anything. this is not american, this is not american, when are we done with this? todd: the former president yesterday has the latest on this story, brooke. that is right, refusing to release an unannounced search of the mar-a-lago home. prosecutors say releasing the document could ongoing a criminal investigation. failing to keep an affidavit sealed, the doj says if this close the affidavit would serve as a road map to the government s ongoing investigation providing specific details about its direction and likely course in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps. the former president and the department left with the statement on true social overnight, in the interest of transparency, i call for immediate release of redacted affidavit pretending for this horrible and shocking break-in. lindsey halligan said the department is putting up red tape to cover a politic
fbi agents are facing an increasing number of threats as republican leaders stay mostly silent about the danger dangerous rhetoric coming from the right. plus, a preview of liz cheney s primary in wyoming where maga supporters seem to punish here for telling the truth about donald trump. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid. we begin with significant developments and a number of investigations involving former president donald trump. today a federal grand jury investigating the january 6 report has subpoenaed eric hirschman for documents. this makes him the third lawyer along with white house counsel pat sill loney and patrick sylvan. their testimony was featured throughout the january 6th hearings. what this means to donald trump according to andrew weesemen that there is no question that trump is the target of the federal january 6 probe. he added, correct move here, lock people into the grand jury. meanwhile in georgia, have the investigation into trump s alleged
police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex
down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi, 11 sets of classified records were seized from trump s home, including some marked as top secret, meant only to be available in special government facilities. two other laws were also cited as a basis for the warrant pertaining to removing, destroying, or concealing records and obstruction of justice. according to the search warrant for mar-a-lago, agents were allowed to search trump s office, all storage rooms, and all other rooms available to trump, his staff, or anywhere documents could be
let s start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. there s one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in what s become a stream of revelations. the washington post out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they retrieved 15 boxes from mar-a-lago. at first archives officials believed that the fbi wasn t taking the documents issued seriously and they grew frustrated according to people familiar with the document dispute and agents interviewed trump s current and former advisors asking what material was in them and who was responsible for the packing and what might still be at the florida club according to a person who was questioned, quote, they interviewed almost everyone who worked for him, a trump