now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
but even so, it s looking like these investigations aren t doing a lot for him. and it s an interesting split screen we re seeing in pennsylvania right now. in recent years august has been traditionally troublesome for presidents, biden, trump, and this august. thanks for all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. a jam-packed morning joe starts right now. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me to support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on?
this is coming from republican members of congress who are calling law enforcement officers the gestapo. who are calling law enforcement officers communists. republican leaders and leaders calling officers moles who want to devour you. defund the fbi? no. defund police? absolutely not. and at the same time, joe biden is giving a speech to main street america. to main street pennsylvania. about backing the fbi and backing law enforcement officers. and just how crazy the republican party s done and doing. what s donald trump doing? he is circulating qanon conspiracy theories on social media. qanon conspiracy theories on the
where we are. but when one asks what he might have been doing with these classified documents, when one thinks about the possibilities, it s chilling. it s chilling what he might have been doing with our national security secrets. with human interests. i mean we don t know. we don t know. i mean, this is chilling, the possibilities. we don t know. but what was revealed late last night seems to box the former president in, that he had something. that belongs to the country, not to him. that he had something that he wasn t supposed to have. we know that so far. meanwhile, joe biden is really going strong. and getting fired up. in the very important state of pennsylvania talking about the very counter to what this whole thing has done to the republican