fight. her fight is not over regardless of what happens on tuesday. it is literally a vote to help save the republic. here i have a one bedroom and i pay $800 a month. americans leaving pricey u.s. cities heading south to work from home in mexico city. it is tuesday, august 16, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the u.s. justice department is making clear just how serious they are about the criminal investigation of donald trump and the search of his florida home. they are now opposing the release of an affidavit used to get the search warrant for the mar-a-lago despite growing calls for more information. evan perez has the details from washington. reporter: justice department says releasing more information about the investigation that led to the search of donald trump s florida home would put the probe and possibly highly classified information at risk. the department made the statement in a court filing opposing efforts by the news media incl
affidavit could compromise the ongoing criminal investigation. it s been eight days since that unprecedented fbi action and we know that doj filter teams have combed through at least some of the contents retrieved from trump s home. we know this because doj returned trump s passports, three of them, in fact, that were found among the materials that were taken away by the fbi. we ve been tracking all of this for the past week. katelyn, what can we expect to happen at this hearing on thursday that has been called by that florida judge? reporter: alex, this hearing is going to be all about secrecy, and especially the arguments that the justice department is going to make to keep secret this very important document that backed up that search of mar-a-lago last monday. remember, that document, it s an afte affidavit. it s only been seen by the judge so far outside of prosecutors and investigators. and it s a narrative that would detail everything that has happened in this invest
here on msnbc. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. but evening, rachel. and i m sure you know what my absolute favorite part of your show was tonight. show was tonight no, what was a? i went into the control room to watch the isolated cameron rachel, so that i wouldn t miss a single fraction of a second of rachael blushing while alex wagner was was raising her and thanking her for what she has created here at msnbc. and you think a lot of that shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn t see your blush in part, as much as they deserved to see it. all i could do in that moment, while you are staring at, me because you know me well enough to do that, is like, could i have done this in such a way that i precluded this from happening? could i have spoken the beginning of this interview and this discussion in such a manner, but there s no way that alex could have maneuver this into talking about me? and i just was s
shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn t see your blushing, as much as they deserved to see it. all i could do in that moment, while you are staring at me because you know me well enough to do that, is like, could i have done this in such a way that i precluded this from happening? could i have spoken the beginning of this interview and this discussion in such a manner, that there s no way that alex could maneuver this into talking about me? and i just was sitting there going, do it again, maddow, fix it, go back in time. meanwhile, you had me trapped in your gaze. well, she was in fact speaking for all of us it, since you know, before these this version of me on this network, i, for some years, had the pundit title of a senior political analyst, which i got, i think, because no one knew you could get titles. and i guess, can i get that, and they were like, yeah, sure. so i kind of predated you hanging around here. i was here before you arrived, and i c
country. i believe in the very soul of this nation, and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe in my core there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. we have to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decide to invest their make chips in america, billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again, and now i m going to take action that i ve been looking forward to doing for 18 months. [ applause ] i m going to sign the inflation reduction act. [ applause ] hey, everyone, it s john heilemann here, i forgot to say aloha, namaste, and gutentag. i m here for nicolle wallace yet again, and we are here interrupting our regularly scheduled programming which you re all too familiar with, to bring you a special bulletin regarding what president joe biden would in an earlier incarnation surely have referred to as