jansen. there is news that donald trump has decided whether to run for president. he still mulling whether to announce it before or after the midterms? if his answer is yes he did not say that out right. he s merely meant to distract as to what is the hottest topic in washington. who was he trying to get in touch with when he reached out to one of the january 6th witnesses. what was he planning to tell them? what they call mark to evidence as witness tampering? it s been confirmed it was a white horse support staff member. white horse support staff according to cnn, it was not someone routinely in touch with the former president. the justice department is not in possession of that information. one of several threads they are following. the fact that they are coming to the committee for information, has led to a lot of frustration. even from committee members themselves. two they have got potent tools to get information. they can enforce their own subpoenas in a way we can.
heartbreaking stories and the efforts to fight back. from the president of neera pro-choice america. into later, a new space race between the united states and china. as a nasa prepares to return to the moon for the very first time in 50 years, with its most powerful rocket yet. all of that and more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. two big developments we are watching this morning in the federal probe of classified documents seized from donald trump s florida home. one involves the national security fallout. the other is about a request from trump s legal team. what let s get started. this morning, with the latest from barry graham. back who is. live good morning, gary. good morning. katie directors of national targets said yesterday to in a letter to congressional leaders that for all of this is going to be conducting a review of what these document may have said. 180 plus classified documents with they may have, said who may have seen the
weeks ago. what we could learn when the document comes out. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former united states senator and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. we wake up to some news this morning. a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate will be made available to the public by at least noon today, possibly this morning. federal magistrate judge rhinehart yesterday ordered it to be unsealed after the justice department submitted the redacted version for him to review. in the order, he outlined which sections of the affidavit the government redacted before public release, saying, i find the government has met its burden of finding a compelling reason, a good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. because disclosure would reveal the identi
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
you can t keep approaching the problem, you know, by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. another conservative mp calls on the prime minister to resign over downing street lockdown parties. and former cabinet minister andrea leadsom criticises him for unacceptable failures of leadership. mega chippy. and the once humble chip shop in coventry, that s now at tiktok sensation. there are calls today to give more children in england free school meals to help tackle the cost of living crisis. teaching unions say all children from families on universal credit should be eligible forfree meals as part of an urgent expansion of the scheme. the cost of food, fuel and other goods has surged in recent months, pushing inflation to a ao year high. here s our education correspondent, elaine dunkley. more children than ever are coming through the doors. at capacity. we opened 11 minutes ago, we ve only got a small room, we are going to be busy. at this free half term