plus, the latest on house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. the uncertain visit is straining an already tense relationship between the united states and china. and a texas man gets the longest prison sentence to date tied to the capitol attack, but his daughters want someone else locked up, too. good morning, and welcome to way too early, on this tuesday, august 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. after decades on the run, the top leader of al qaeda has finally been taken off the battlefield. ayman al zawahiri was killed this last weekend by a cia drone while standing on a balcony in downtown kabul, second in command to osama bin laden during the september 11th attacks, and became the top leader when the united states killed bin laden in 2011. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the strike was so precise, none of his family inside the home were killed. in a rare evening address last night, president biden still isolating from covid said j
primaries. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the latest developments in the fbi search of donald trump s south florida home. sources familiar with the matter tell the washingt post that federal authorities were concerne that trump had not returned to the national archives all the material head improperly taken to mar-a-lago after he left the white house in january, 2021. he returned 15 boxes about 7 months ago, but 12 more boxes were seized in nday s search. trump s attorney christina bob says the former president s legal team had been in discussions with the justice department sin the spring about whether additional records were being stored at mar-a-lago. e says that trump s attorys me at m-a-lago on two occasions. source tell nbc news at some point during the pro trump even personay showed investigators showedhe room ere the materia were being ke. here is what
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off
have been calling on president biden to take action may finally get their wish. but for some, this executive action won t go nearly far enough. we ll explain. plus, vladimir putin takes his first foreign trip since the invasion of ukraine as the russian president looks for an ally in a nation also isolated from the west. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the secret service is now saying text messages that may have been able to corroborate some of the events of january 6th are likely gone forever. after being issued a subpoena by the house select committee investigating the attack, the agency had enough yesterday to turn over its records from january 5th and 6th of 2021 that it said had been accidentally erased. but after initially being hopeful that the data could be recovered, committee member stephanie murphy revealed otherwise on msnbc last night. we received a letter today that di
of politically motivated violence. and it all comes as president biden is set to give a prime time speech tonight, focusing on the soul of the nation. we ll have more on his message to a divided country just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, the 1st of september. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. breaking news overnight, former president donald trump s legal team has responded to the department of justice s latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in their 18-page filing trump s lawyer suggested that by launching what they described as an unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported raid on mar-a-lago, the d.o.j. was quote criminalizing a former president s possession of personal and presidential records in a secure setting. trump s legal team also aggressively renewed its request for a special master, or a third party, to review the documents that the fbi agent