house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r
trump that the classified materials found at malignancy s found at malignancy h . at had been declassified. the fbi is on high alert following an attack at a field office and a wave of violent threats online from trump supporters. two republicans who have been critical of the former president face serious challenges from candidates who support him in tomorrow s gop primaries. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your week with us. one week after fbi agents desend on the home of former president donald trump, threats against federal law enforcement officials remain high. three senior officials tell nbc news that the fbi and department of homeland security issued a joint bulletin on friday, warning of the increase in violent rhetoric. the five-page document reportedly advised officials to remain cautious and vigilant facing threats. last week an alleged trump supporter was killed in a confron
cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an
basis for the search warrant. it is highly unlikely that will be unsealed since it lays out the inside information and the sources that federal investigators relied on to get the federal judge to approve the warrant. democrats wan the director of national intelligence haynes to have a review because of the implications of what was found at mar-a-lago. the top democrats from house oversight and house intelligence. and they wrote this in the letter to dni haynes saying a recently unsealed court document and the property recovered at the mar-a-lago club describe numerous classified documents held by former president trump including top secret sensitive compartmented material among the most sensitive and highly protected information in the u.s. government. former president trump s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. the issue demands a full review in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry. congressman adam schiff, maloney, wrote the letter. t
investigation, you know, 147 members of the house, after the capitol was attacked, still voted to decertify parts of the election. i mean, so, the party was complicit in this, and that s why i think you see so much of them being so afraid about this report coming out. but now it does move to the justice department to a much more standard law enforcement inquiry, and you re absolutely right that the department has gone after some of the low-level people and prosecuted them even for various serious crimes like seditious conspiracy, and hasn t moved against the higher-ups yet. but i suspect this report is going to catalyze all of those efforts, and at the end of the day, it does look like the higher-ups did something that wasn t just morally wrong but was a crime. yeah, i think you lay it out. what is the process, and will there be accountability for the higher-ups? again, if it s a matter of timing and process and delays, we ll report it out if it happens. if it doesn t, that itself al