joining us this hour. tonight, polls have just now close in new york. home to seven consequential primaries into special elections that may tell us a lot about the role abortion will play in the midterms. steve kornacki joins us at the big. board florida political girl, mark caputo is here as for the democrats choose their pick to take on governor ron desantis. plus, breaking news tonight about the top secret document trump had at mar-a-lago, information being called quote, among the most sensitive secrets the u.s. ole. donald trump reportedly wouldn t show some of the material, even to some top eight. one of the washington post reporters who broke that story, carol lanning joins us live. the jury finds two men guilty of kidnapping as the irs because of threats from the far-right. we start tonight with what you might call a quintessential new york moment. i will take you out. you can take me? out how are you gonna do that? watch. that would then republican candi
and i just thought that, you know, every election, every time there s a chance to vote and to say something, you have to go out and say it. we re going to discuss all that ahead. but in new york, there are four other congressional races we are watching closely. in new york s 12th congressional district, long-time democratic representatives jerry nadler and carolyn maloney were forced into the same race due to redistricting. nadler won that primary ending maloney s 30-year stint in congress. seant patrick maloney and jone were almost forced to run against each other, same way nadler and maloney were. but congressman jones is running in new s york s newly-drawn ten district. he is facing a crowded field including dan goldman, former lead counsel during donald trump s first impeachment, who spent millions of his own money in that race. goldman is currently leading the pack butnt the race still too close to call. tonight, congressman maloney, the current share of the dccc. th
plus, 700 and counting, that s the latest number of classified documents that donald trump had at mar-a-lago. we ll explain why there s likely many more to come. also ahead, president biden is expected to announce a decision today on a controversial plan that could impact millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 24th. i m sam stein, in for jonathan lemire. results are pouring in this morning after key primaries in new york in one of the most closely-watched races this primary season, nbc news projects that congressman jerry nadler has won the democratic primary for new york s 12th congressional district. he defeated his fellow encouple bantd, maloney. third candidate in the race was patel, former staffer for president obama who ran on the platform of generational change. and new york s 17th district, democratic congressman sean patrick maloney beat back a fierce primary challenge from progressive state senator biaggi
bellwether, where voters made abortion rights the centerpiece of his campaign in a swing district. molinaro tried to tie democrats and the white house to high prices and the economy as well. ryan s win appears to show, once again, that abortion rights are a powerful motivator in helping democrats get people to the polls. as meet the press first put it out this morning, this red wave is looking much more like a ripple. and roughly 1,000 miles south of here in florida we now know who will take on republican governor ron desantis in november. it is a familiar name in that state, charlie crist. he s been the governor there before and he s running again. he told our colleagues on morning joe his plan to defeat desantis relies on not playing dirty. i m going to beat him because i m running on love and love always wins. and if he wants to run on hate and culture wars and dividing people and making people hate each other, that s his turf. it s not mine. he s trying to tear my s
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o