good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 16th. ahead this hour, the latest developments from ukraine following new russian missile attacks overnight. the strikes come as the ukrainian president is touring europe, looking to restock his army s arsenal. plus, the durham report was supposed to vindicate donald trump of his alleged ties to russia, but now that it s finally out after four years, there s not much in it that we didn t already know. we re going to go through the findings just ahead. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling talks ahead of a high-stakes meeting at the white house. also today, just ahead now, arnold schwarzenegger joins us live from austria, where some of the world s top climate activists and leaders are meeting right now. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and columnist and asso
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense
the receipts showing exactly what the agents found, catalogued and took, seized because it wasn t trump s property from the property compound you see on your screen. that includes 11 sets of classified documents, some at the highest level of classification. one set marked top secret sci, top secret compartmentalized info and they are only to be viewed at special facilities and mar-a-lago is not one of them. there are three sets of secret and three confidential. all of this comes after donald trump returned what looks like the partial amount according to the government not authorized to be there. 15 boxes that went back in january. now on this basically third go around, they re still finding top secret documents. property receipt does not explain the substance because the government doesn t want everyone to know what is in there. washington post reporting fbi agents were looking for classified documents that could relate to nuclear weapons when they carried out the search. nbc
That im on. And im kind of looking forward to it because, again, cant be finished with something unless you start it. Michael cohen is set to take the stand monday in trumps criminal trial. Trumps lawyers will call him a liar, but cohens story has been consistent. And corroborated by the other prosecution witnesses. Also tonight, trump is getting the old band back together. A rogues gallery of crooks including Convicted Felon turned pardon bad guy for hire, Paul Manafort, who used to do the dirty work for putins russia and congo among other autocrats. And more recently, has reportedly been shaking his tin cup for china. Plus, trump used to call rfk jr. A very smart person, but now, hes in a state of panic that junior is winning over some of his antivacc maga base. We begin tonight with a man best summarized by the great robert nesta marley. Your best enemy could be your best friend and your best friend your worst enemy, which brings us to one of Donald Trumps most important hires. A hi
jurors listed 39 people they thought should face charges for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that is more than double the number who were charged in the end. we will break down some of the big names among those ultimately unindicted and why this matters. plus a philadelphia police officer has turned himself in after a deadly shooting as the district attorney release its unedited body camera footage of that incident, something the victim s family wanted the public to see in its entirety. we will have the latest. and the fbi chief issuing a stark warning about russian spies in the united states. he says the number operating here is still way too big. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. today we have brand-new information about the scope of the georgia election interference investigation into donald trump and the key take away, the sprawling rico case against the former president and 18