what a week. with us, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson with us. and columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, will join us in a moment. joe, just a reminder of why the justice department might be a little concerned about nuclear secrets knocking around mar-a-lago. there was the time that trump spilled highly classified information to russia s foreign minister. or when he tweeted a highly classified satellite photo of an iranian space facility. or when he sided with the kremlin over america s own intelligence agencies. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it s russia. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. yeah. so with that in mind, we begin with new information on the fbi s search of donald trump s home in florida. people familiar with the investigation te
possibility of more classified documents on the property. here is a teeny tiny, teensy-weensy hint, it came from inside. hold on. hold on. are you telling me the call came from the inside? wow. just going to leave that there. good morning. good morning, everyone. it is kind of like the mob, isn t it? oh, boy. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 11th. with us, we have scene from the sopranos. associate editor from the washington post , david ignatius. donald trump can grift money off supporters, but he can t erase history. it is not that he use to mock the fifth amendment before invoking it yesterday hundreds of times, it is also his attack on fbi director christopher wray, a man he nominated to the job as a, quote, impeccable individual and model of integrity. a model, donald trump said. christopher wray was a model of integrity. after all, why would the feds will worried about top secret documents floating around mar-a-lago? remember when
they have to be presumed you can t presume that this was just something that happens with a bureaucratic snafu, this is outrageous. well, the explanation for the quote, lost data sounds more suspicious this morning based on a new time line from lawmakers, julia insley is standing by with more on this story. plus, new subpoenas for supporters of former president trump. good news out of fulton county, georgia. nearly a dozen fake elects from one state could face criminal charges for election interference. things are heating up. meanwhile, trump hasn t given up on overturning the election he lost, apparently. a wisconsin lawmaker says the former president called him just this month, following a court ruling on ballot drop boxes. also, vladimir putin takes his first significant foreign trip since the invasion of ukraine as the russian president looks for an ally in a nation also isolated from the west. and the bidens meet with ukraine s first lady at the white house ole
supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? donald trump justifying the chants of his supporters calling for the death of mike pence. the january 6th committee holds its third public hearing today, focused on the pressure trump put on his vice president to overturn the election. we will tell you what to expect. plus, new reporting that ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, was in communication with trump lawyer john eastman as he tried to overturn the election. and new reporting that pro-trump lawyers hoped the wild scene that trump teased to his supporters ahead of the capitol attack would pressure the supreme court to get involved in their election efforts. and dow futures fall more than 500 points after markets first rallied around the fed decision to hike interest rates. steve rattner helps us break down the latest moves on the economy. we re also follo
funds on personal items like sephora cosmetics, trips to atlantic city, and even only fans. turns out, they don t sell fans at all. the name of the site is very misleading. republican congressman george santos providing an awful lot of material for the late night shows. we ll go through a very damning ethics report. that was the tip of the iceberg there from jimmy kimmel, and show you the response from the new york lawmaker who says he s sticking around. we ll see if he can. talk about that in a minute. also ahead, we ll have the latest from the middle east. israel says it has more evidence hamas is operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and we will recap another diplomatic day on the west coast for president biden, where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, november 17th. with us this morning, we have the host of way too early, wh