til my trophies that s i lay down pete: it is march 31st, year of our lord, 2024. happy easter, everybody. he is risen, rachel. rachel: he is risen. finish happy easter. pete: we re watching the vatican, st. peter s square as we re awaiting pope if francis easter sunday message. there he is, prompt and on time. they said he d be at 11 a.m. vatican time, the 6 a.m. eastern time and there he is. when he begins his remarks, we ll take them to you. but, rachel, it s always beautiful to wake up when you know the stone is rolled away and the tomb is empty. rachel: absolutely. and if what a beautiful image as that is of the eternal city of rome. a little bit excited because i m going to be there next month with my family. it s wonderful. this is the city and the world bless aring that the pope gives annually on easter sunday, and you can see there s a lot of pomp and circumstance around that. and that crowd is filled with people from every corner of the world as there are a bil
billion dollars is definitely, i think, a shot in the arm of people who think that liars like jones can be held accountable. seeing him today on the show say that we are going to keep talking about parkland, and uvalde, and they can t stop us, and the war effectively goes on, is just absolutely devastating. and a decade later, also, the heels of justice chrysler. but sometimes they keep turning forward. thank you to all of you at home for joining us tonight, we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are
those who are impacted by that hurricane as we get through this. and on that note, i wish all of you a very good and safe tonight. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are making a huge last-minute investment in their candidacy. she will join us live a little bit later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight of donald trump s mar-a-lago document sca
we are standing by to review that affidavit as soon as it comes out, which could be this hour. let s begin this hour with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. jess, this affidavit could be released any moment, sometime between now and noon. walk us through this whole process, what we will see, what we probably won t see. yeah, in i minute now, guys. what s interesting about this is it s all been a relatively rapid process. you know, it was less than four hours after the doj submitted their proposed redactions that the judge ruled, yes, in fact, he would accept that proposal and it would be released to the public. like you said, in just two hours here. and what s notable is that the judge seems to be agreeing with what the doj has proposed, despite the fact that what we saw in court just about a week ago was doj pushing back substantially against the judge, saying even if they issued a redacted version of this affidavit, they said that there would be so many redactio
down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi, 11 sets of classified records were seized from trump s home, including some marked as top secret, meant only to be available in special government facilities. two other laws were also cited as a basis for the warrant pertaining to removing, destroying, or concealing records and obstruction of justice. according to the search warrant for mar-a-lago, agents were allowed to search trump s office, all storage rooms, and all other rooms available to trump, his staff, or anywhere documents could be