are signs that s it s drifting the other way as well. brendan buck, thank you very much for coming on the show this morning. and the washington post s jackie alemany, thank you as well for your reporting from the washington post. you know, mika, it s almost like yeah. they don t hate losing as much as my mother did. well, they like mini winning. just like in certain areas. i don t know. i don t really see how when your district lose the country. it seems shortsighted, but still ahead on morning joe, nasa administrator bill nelson joins us on the heels of the successful artemis mission. we ll talk to him about what it means for plans to put humans back on the moon. and the united states isn t the only country milwaukeeing making strides in space, a new initiative from the united
archives asking for a year and a half, could we get the documents, could we get the documents, and when they went and seized the documents, the government, are you sure there s not more, keep looking. let s bring in congressional reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany, she is an msnbc contributor. good morning, what more can you tell us about this story? this was, as mika pointed out, this came from within trump s circle of lawyers. let s hire a firm to see if there s more stuff. mar-a-lago, trump tower in new york and let s go check out this storage unit. right, willie. that s exactly right but it also came at the behest of the d.c. circuit judge barrel howell and after multiple concerns were expressed by counter intelligence head jay brat. basically prosecutors, the doj, the fbi continually expressed concern that trump and his folks had yet to fully comply with that original grand jury
classified markings were discovered at a florida storage facility not far from trump s mar-a-lago home and club following a search carried out at the direction of trump s attorneys. that s according to two people familiar with the documents who spoke to nbc news. they say the documents were turned over to the fbi confirming a report first published in the washington post. but the nature of the documents was not revealed. the discovery comes nearly four months after fbi agents executed a search warrant at mar-a-lago and found more than 100 documents with classified markings, including some that were labeled top secret. the storage unit where the new documents were found is in west palm beach, run by the general services administration. one of the sources said trump had never been inside that storage facility himself. the new york times reports the discovery came after trump s lawyers hired an outside firm to
archives web site. they ve got a very long laundry list of people who have inappropriately taken classified information or presidential records throughout the years, and again, have faced criminal charges. but, you know, prosecutors want to get a rock solid case down. we have talked a lot about the espionage act and where this falls on the sliding scale of the severity on the espionage act, and as my colleagues, develin barrett and josh previously reported, right now prosecutors are viewing trump s motive as more less trying to sell state secrets and more motivated in the fact that he wanted to keep these documents. it was ego driven. he felt like these items, the letters from kim jong un and other high profile presidential items were his regardless of that, though, he still could face some very similar criminal charges. washington post jackie alemany digging deep on this
found the documents alongside suits, swords and wrestling belts. you know, it s a sad day when you realize your former president s storage unit and your 5-year-old son s christmas list are exactly the same. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, december 8th. a lot to cover this morning. donald trump s legal team hands over more classified documents to the fbi. this time the items were reportedly found inside a storage unit, and was that jimmy kimmel, he was not joking when he said they were alongside swords, wrestling belts and other things like that. the washington post s jackie alemany is here to break down the new reporting on that. plus, republicans try to figure out where to place the blame after the latest senate loss in georgia. some, but not all of it, has landed on donald trump. we ll have the latest on that. and new reporting that the january 6th committee plans to vote on criminal referrals when