before the supreme court. plus, the gop rallies around henching walker, a day after a bombshell report that claims he paid for a girl s abortion. and there s a new home run team in at least the american league. yes, we ll show you the moment that aaron judge broke roger maris record. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, october 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with a new twist in the battle over the classified documents that former president donald trump kept as his mar-a-lago home and club, after he left office. the former president has filed an emergency request, asking the supreme court to now intervene by allowing the special master to review the roughly 100 classified records that federal agents seized from the florida state back in august. specifically, the trump team asked the highest court in the land to vacate part of the ruling issued by the 11th circuit court of appeals. that ruling all
and welcome to politicsnation from atlanta, georgia. tonight s lead, a split down the center. the midterm elections are just 16 days away, 17 states have already started voting in advance of november 8th. 12 states will join that list this week. and a brand new national poll from nbc news suggests that americans have their minds made up about several things ahead of next month. president biden s approval rating is holding at 45%. the highest number he has enjoyed in over a year, yet still lower than democrats would like with their senate and house majorities hanging in the balance. voters remaining evenly split on congressional preference. 47% preferring democrats in control of congress, 46% preferring republicans. the passion driving voters this election cycle is unprecedented. with seven in ten americans expressing high interest in this midterm election, a likely indicator that we can expect record turnout next month, but with that, our country remains deeply polarized. eig
waste of time and a red herring. he also said loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what did not belong to him, refusing to give it back and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing justice with his legal team deceiving investigators. i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that. they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. and so how long you know, how long do they wait? the answer, as we now know, was more than a year before seeking a search warrant. the former attorney general had more
election. this week, the fulton county s special gown jury subpoenaed seven of trump s cronies. that included none other than senator lindsey graham. graham s attorneys say that they will challenge the 14 they claim this is all politics. take a listen to what they had to say about that in exclusive interview with blaine alexander. he called it a fishing expedition. he said this was nothing but politics. what do i have to gain from these politics? she almost brushed dirt off her shoulder when she said that. this might not stop there. donald trump himself might be maximalist. might we see a subpoena for the former president himself. anything is possible. anything indeed. just when things couldn t get worse for donald trump, former white house counsel pat cipollone is finally cooperate with the january six committee. he testified before the committee for eight hours. joining me now to discuss is msnbc legal analyst charles. this is a former brooklyn prosecutor. we
going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it s not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events were open to the press. so we did not get the opportunity to ask him any questions. they even wouldn t let the drone fly in the area once he was here. after landing in del rio, he traveled to eagle pass where the secretary visited a border patrol processing facility that opened last month. the 153,000 square foot facility is on 24 acres and has a capacity of 1,000. then mayorkas traveled down here