philadelphia yesterday, outgoing chicago mayor lori lightfoot, a democrat, put her party on notice for its rhetoric on crime. as democrats if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah , the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest put a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be hon
truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest but a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be honest and forthright about the small numerical number of people who are repeated offenders we have about 2000. people in our city that are extreme result of recidivi
potential candidates to fill that special master role and outline their limitations. as for the investigation, a senior doj official tells nbc news this ruling does not halt the probe into the potential mishandling of classified documents. we ll dig into the legal implications of the judge s ruling in moments. also today, mixed emotions in uvalde, texas. students are back in school for the first time since the tragic may shooting at robb elementary. parents dropping off their kids, just trying to do the best they can. when i spoke to my kids the whole week, drilled them on, if anything happened again, try to make it out the window, run, don t scream. we re scared but we re here. we are on the ground in the community as they process the weight of this day. big news from across the pond where the new prime minister of the united kingdom, liz truss, is speaking this hour from downing street. we are monitoring that and we ll bring you the latest. we ll start with the
ndnu prepares you for careers in classes start year-round. advance your career at ndnu dot edu today. msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to the new report. we begin with new developments in the mar-a-lago search. this is from the doj. they talk about what could happen if surveillance video of the fbi search of mar-a-lago gets released. the doj officials say that the department would hope that caution and carry would be used by anyone with access to that footage. last hour, former trump lawyer michael cohen gave his thoughts on how trump could approach this situation. if they believe that the tape that benefited them, i promise you that tape would have already been released as we are speaking right now. obviously, they know that it does not. there are thousands and thousands of cameras thrilled mar-a-lago. i can assure you that at the time the rate was taking place, they were watching the raid. they were watching the fbi agents going through the property. that c
meanwhile, a court hearing is scheduled for today on the request to unseal the affidavit used to search donald trump s mar-a-lago home. we ll have new reporting on where that investigation stands. plus, new polling in the fight to control the senate from a tight race in ohio to the democrat in wisconsin expanding his lead over republican ron johnson. we ll have the latest numbers for you this morning. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 18th. joe, looking ahead to a big hearing today. yup. a lot of political waves beginning to sort of form out of this. they are. i m curious, what did you think of mike pence s speech? it feels it feels like he s looking for a lane. i believe his speech, willie, if i m not correct, was in new hampshire, was it not? it was. yes, it was. that would be kind of the, i think, real story there. what is he doing there? there s obviously maybe a long game being played here. i don t want to get ahead of anyth