properties. those properties include trump s golf club in new jersey, trump tower in new york and a storage closet at mar-a-lago itself. this is evidence that trump and the team did not fully comply with a grand jury subpoena issued in may that sought all documents marked classified still in their possession. the fbi yesterday declined to comment. the justice department has been conducting what it described as an active criminal investigation into whether the white house documents at mar-a-lago were mishandled as well as possible obstruction of justice. with the midterm elections officially in the rearview mirror, finger pointing over the disappointing results reached a new level. speaking yesterday, a number of gop lawmakers blamed donald trump for the party shortcomings. take a look. president trump lost again. and i know a lot of people in
former president was pushing all the blame off herschel walker s loss way from himself yesterday writing 232 out of 252 midterm races won who had my endorsement. the real reasons were other than trump and i can name them all. although most of trump s endorsees did win. many of them were incumbents and favorites in the races, many in deeply ready districts. and according to the cook political report, all five candidates he endorsed within the 36 most competitive house races lost. as republicans struggle to figure out why they never got a red wave, democrats in the senate are celebrating their history defying mid terms. chuck schumer and democratic senatorial campaign chairman gary peters of michigan explained yesterday what they
reporting from inside the west wing. jeffrey, now he s moving, and you can expect more aggressive moves as they reorganize. something fun, not a lot of fun things the president does, i guess there are, but a fun thing the president does, you get to appoint ambassadors. unless they have the scandal, but mostly up side, and biden has a real opportunity here. 44 spots at embassies are open. five of them from the big 20, g20 countries. we can expect a spate of those coming, so lots of action as we wait for that official indication that he s going to run as you well know from his own reporting, every person in the building expects it to go. though probably not a final word for a few months. the biden people after keeping the senate, they feel like that buys them time. but you see more of a spring in the president s step.
of those first two years, and we re seeing in how they re doing it, we re getting a look. five letters, five agencies, and republicans already saying signaling, some of their targets about internal deliberations already asking for specific e-mails. yeah, afghanistan. the border, hunter biden, and even the january 6th investigation. a look into that as well. just among many targets. origin of covid, how the justice department deals with school boards, lots of hot buttons. great to see you, my friend, and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. trump s legal team announced that they have completed a search of two of trump s properties. they searched his properties and did not find anymore classified documents. his team did find at least two classified documents in a storage locker had keeps in palm beach. according to a source, they
karl rove weighed in on georgia s senate runoff, and he argues that republicans lost because of poor candidate quality at the hands of former president trump. in an interview with fox news digital, rove said quote, we had a terrible candidate who was well meaning but plagued with a lot of scandal, and was not particularly good on the campaign trail. he added quote, we ought to realize that trump s endorsement is not an inducement to support that candidate but a warning to beware. and jonathan lemire, we re seeing republicans on different versions of fox news, fox business come around on this going what s going on with donald trump? yeah, trump put out a ridiculous statement. saying his endorsement is key to a lot of republican victories. by the numbers, he endorsed a lot of winners who were in deep red districts who would have won