possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 29th. it s pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid-may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. quote, identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential.
Oj simpson, one of the most controversial people six. Were going to look back at his life, his murder trial, and how it changed the nation and the fight over fisa, the battle over the controversial surveillance program, threatening speaker Mike Johnsons short tenure at the helm of the house. Were falling following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central the breaking news today, oj simpson is dead at 76 after losing his battle to cancer, according to social media posts by his family, he was a celebrated Football Star. He won the Heisman Trophy and college. He then transition into acting as a pitch man who was then later accused standard acquitted, and the Double Murder Trial of his exwife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman simpson gripped the nation after taking police on that slow Speed Police Chase scene here. And of course, the highprofile trial that followed his eventual acquittal becoming a Landmark Moment In Eric i
Floor. That is simply what this rule vote was. And yet they still couldnt get it over the finish line right now. Now what we are hearing from the Speakers Office is that there is a hope that they might be able to go back to the House Rules Committee restructure this rule and create some kind of harmony among republicans to actually get this debate started on the floor. But again, they are up against a deadline as intelligence officials are making clear that they our very concerned about fisa not being reauthorized by the april 19 deadline, arguing that the impact on their ability to collect intelligence would be severe at a time when there are so many threats happening. Against the United States at the same time. Now, there is a big question right now about what johnsons future holds, what his speakership holds given that threat for Marjorie Taylor greene and republicans are just frustrated with the level of tumbled and chaos that they are experiencing day to day working in their jobs.