thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signed off on the affidavit and he indicated thursday that he is willing to unseal portions of it that were used to just guy the fbi search. he told prosecutors to prepare redactions to the document in case the ruling is to release it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s f
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears to be
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 19th. friday, folks. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the federal judge deciding whether to unseal the affidavit in the unprecedented search of mar-a-lago appeared to stake out the middle ground yesterday. saying he is inclined to unseal it, the magistrate judge gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge stated, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed reactions and then, redactions and decide if he agrees. he could not give a time line beyond next thursday saying quote this is going to be a considered careful process. the the government had argued against unsailing the affidavit laming it would jeopardize its investigation, and because it contains quote substantial grand jury information with national security over
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug companie
to liftoff for nasa s return to the moon and harry s smith on the end of the road for two american classics this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening over 93 million covid cases in today came a stunning admission from the head of the cdc. in our big moment our performance did not reliably meet expectations. with her agency still confronting not just the pandemic but evolving threats including monkeypox and a troubling reappearance of polio, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky acknowledging the cdc s poor messaging and at times confusing guidance all this as she kicks off a sweeping overhaul of the agency including a bid to arm it with new powers the reckoning coming on the heels of an internal review of the cdc. the immediate challenges couldn t be anymore urgent as demand grows for monkeypox vaccine doses, as well as experts monitoring the awakening of a dangerous disease long thought to have been defeated i get reaction from the white house covid resp