department of homeland security wanted to try to recover those deleted secret service messages from around the time of the january 6th attack on the capitol. but then the trump-appointed agency, watchdog step in. mika, did someone gel on that. that doesn t make sense on any level for any department in government. i don t, something is definitely wrong and perhaps. steve kornacki is standing by to help break down leaks which feature a number of candidates who deny the 2020 election results. what is the anger meter, the rage meter this morning. well, the rage will join us. the rage will be on. he s going to be here? we re very lucky, joe. i thought he only did rodeos in august. we re very, very lucky, the rage is back. one of the reasons we re going to be hearing from rusty. there he is. wow, just got a chill down my spine. we ll hear from rusty bowers. the arizona speaker who may pay the price for the 2020 election and testifying before it before the janu
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.
that includes a runny nose, some fatigue, and the occasional dry cough. again, this is according to president biden s doctor. and he is being prescribed paxlovid. this is the antiviral medication that is said to be more effective if you take it as soon as you test positive. again, this is a medication that the president is going to be on. we, obviously, also know that he is going to be isolating for the time being. that means that he is not going to be seen in public. we ve certainly not seen him today. but earlier today, we did see the first lady, dr. jill biden, and this is what she said about his her husband s condition right now. my husband tested positive for covid. i talked to him just a few minutes ago. he s doing fine. he s feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i am keeping masked. and so, i would like to go in and see the program here, learning loss as an educator means a lot to me. so, th
capitol under siege. also tonight, deadly heat across the globe and in america 100 million people under heat alerts in more than two dozen states. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden s covid diagnosis and what comes next. his top covid official the president himself sent out a brief video message about how he s doing, and let s go to jeff zeleny joining us from the white house. how is the president feeling tonight. wolf, officials tell me tonight that president biden is feeling quite well. he s been working remotely, if you will from the residence of the white house throughout the day making telephone calls holding meetings virtually and this comes, thof course, as the first time he s tested positive for covid-19 and he s in the first year and a half of his presidency trying to dodge this, and today he did test positive and he was just on his way to travelin
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i