demanding more transparency and they argue a special master could provide that. he could also provide a delay in court proceedings. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez leads us off. this all boils down to one judge. that s right. she came in over the weekend and said she was inclined to grant the former president s request for a special master without seeing anything from the justice department. that s what we re doing to see today. the justice department asking for to exceed the page limit that normally applies in this court in southern florida. they re asking for about 40 pages. now that s longer than the affidavit that we saw unsealed last friday. what we expect to see is, you know, more description of what s been doing on behind the scenes. we know that there s a group of fbi agents who are not involved in the investigation who have been looking specifically at these documents for anything that could be attorney-client privileged and they are removing that a
barr, who did much of donald trump s bidding during the russia investigation, defends the fbi decision to seize classified documents from the former president s florida estate. this as we learn more about what was found in the search, including dozens of empty folders marked classified. plus, the former president sharpens his attacks against federal law enforcement, calling the fbi and doj, quote, vicious monsters, while warning of unprecedented backlash. how will his supporters interpret that? and president biden hits the campaign trail this labor day, visiting two key battleground states, pennsylvania and wisconsin, both union strongholds. we ll have a preview of his holiday campaign events. good morning. it is monday, september 5th. welcome to a special labor day edition of morning joe. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your holiday with us. we now have a clearer account of what the fbi seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home in palm be
moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren t exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country s south. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 30th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort potentially contain attorney-client privileged information. according to a court filing yesterday, the team used by the justice department has finished its examination of the possibly privileged documents, sorting through them and reviewing any material that could be part of congressional investigators and it would undermine trump s efforts to have a special master over the files. over the weekend a federal judge i
toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
with enthusiasm for life but after her death they discovered she had been looking at a huge amount of content on social media sites relating to suicide, relating to self harm. today at the start of proceedings, we saw some of that footage. 17 videos that had been found on instagram, which we know molly had either liked or had a look at. and the coroner took the unusual move of warning everyone in court how very distressing this footage was. he said it was almost impossible to watch. the videos were then played one after another. very brief videos, but showing images of death and ways that people could commit suicide. and the court room was absolutely silent. the coroner said to molly s family they did not need to remain in court to see this footage but they decided to remain within the court and at one point molly s father, ian, looked away from the screen. after that we heard evidence from an executive from mehta, the company which oversees instagram. this was a very importa