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
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, another u
he now has obliged and will make some remarks. let s go to caitlyn polanz. the former president can clear up a lot of these accusations. he has a documented inventory of what was taken from his home on monday as part of this search. and he thus far has decided not to disclose that. that s right. really we have heard mostly the trump team, his lawyers, himself trying to fill in the blanks about why they believe there was this search of mar-a-lago. we ve done our best to report out, but we are able to say there are national security concerns, there were concerns that the people at mar-a-lago weren t being entirely forthcoming about what was there, that there was a need to go back in after a subpoena with this search to get boxes. but i wanted to highlight one of the things that director wray said in this letter, he said when all the facts come out, we stuck to the process, and the process here, that is a process that s in court. so the reason that trump is able to go out ther
he built his reputation in large hotels across the world before he was hired by first lady rosalynn carter in 1979. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best known british commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britain s elusive prime minister turns up in ukraine, as the country marks six months since the war began. we now know in the uk how much energy bills will rise from october, but not what the new prime minister will do when they take over. where has power gone in the uk? where s it going in the united states? and in australia, how come much of it ended up in the hands of just one man? and even his his friends aren t happy about it. to discuss all of that, in the studio, we have latika bourke, a correspondent for the australian newspapers the age and the sydney morning herald, a writer who has been writing a weekly
tropical storm ian is gaining strength in the community, join concerns, it will severely batter florida s golf course as a major hurricane this week. meanwhile, hurricane fiona making landfall in canada nova scotia. one mayor says his town suffered total devastation. nbc s and halifax for us. we will begin with meteorologist joe occurrence. bill, we will get a few more in a moment with you. what was the very latest on tropical storm ian? there is a lot of questions with ian. things are changing. storms that approach, especially the peninsula from the south are extremely difficult to forecast. florida is actually narrow from east to west if you drove across the state, if you know that, it takes about two hours. these approaching the south like this one, its latest adjustments, means big changes to the land area we re as going to get hit. the latest on the hurricane center it is a tropical storm, it is even. it is going west at 50 miles per hour. about south of jamaica thro