safety concerns for witnesses or it could impact on going investigations. prosecutors have until thursday to propose redactions, then the judge will decide whether they are reasonable. there are a couple things worth thinking about between now and then, even if we see the affidavit, it is just one side of the argument, the government s side. the target of the search doesn t get to appear in front of the judge or argue. the information has not been cross examined. secondly. it takes probable cause to search, but it takes a lot more than that to convict. whatever is affidavit may wind out to be true or certain. only the government participates in seeking a search warrant, we don t know and we won t know until both sides present their facts and test the echedz on evidence on the other side, we should ask ourselves why? why do we want to read the affidavit? how will it help us arrive at the truth? do we arrive at the facts. credible evidence is to move us to persuade us, can we s
state party convention. the line in those negotiations that he says he will not cross. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this monday, june 20th. we ll start with the news. a new poll finds a majority of americans, nearly six in ten, believe donald trump should be charged for his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. the abc news ipsos poll conducted this last friday and saturday after the first three hears in the attack, it found 58% of those surveyed believe the former president should be charged. that includes 91% of democrats and 19% of republicans. 60% of americans believe the january 6th investigation has been fair. and then on friday, former president trump spoke at length about the public hearings for the first time since they began. addressing a crowd at a faith and freedom coalition rally in nashville, trump continued to parrot many of his lies regarding the events on january 6th including his claim that the rioters were
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
urgency of the unprecedented search of a former president s home. this also raises the stakes of his standoff with attorney general merrick garland, who revealed that he personally signed off on the search warrant. former president trump says he too wants the searched documents to be made public but we ll see if his lawyers contest it in court. kaitlan collins joins us. the wall street journal a couple of minutes ago, what are they reporting? alex leery at the wall street journal claims to have seen a good amount of the documents here that would be within this search warrant case. the search warrants itself as well as the receipt handed to donald trump and his attorneys when the fbi left, seizing items. specifically, the journal is reporting that it is 11 sets of classified documents that were removed from mar-a-lago on monday. if we break it down, if you look in the story, it says one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, that s sensitive com
votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. still remarkable to hear him. that was georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger on the receiving end of that request. he and his deputy gabe sterling will be the witnesses along with two recent recipients of the jfk profile and courage award for their actions and courage during the 2020 election. georgia elections worker andrea shea moss who also came under pressure. the testimony doesn t stop there, we ll hear what one federal judge described this way, a coup in search of a legal theory. that is the way trump and his legal team in the days following his historic defeat latched on like sea urchins to a radical, unconstitutional effort to leave him in power in key swing states. in advance of that line of questioning, there is brand-new reporting in the washington post this weekend with an inside look of what john eastman was saying to his colleagues that they knew the plan was baseless and pursued it anywa