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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:18:00

Immediately, that he will try to distance himself from the man who did more to embarrass himself on the national stage in the nation of donald trump than any other living human being. yeah, there s no question. he s not long for this world once he gets into deep trouble. claire, stay with us. former general counsel to the fbi, andrew weissmann, thank you. we appreciate it. ahead on morning joe, a republican senate candidate changes the language on his website about the issue of abortion, while the head of the rnc pleads donors for money following a surge of money to democrats following the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade. we ll talk about the new signs abortion rights will play a role in the midterm elections. plus, we choose to go to the moon again. nasa set to launch its most powerful rocket ever, as the space agency prepares to send as ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:07:00

The calendar, the timeline of the events leading up to the search warrant, there was suddenly an extraordinarily accelerated pace to get the search warrant and affect the search warrant. would we learn anything more about that today, do you think, from what skimpy details might be revealed? it s possible. it depends how sort of i won t say generous, but depends how forward-leaning the department was in saying, you know, this can actually be disclosed. but it is possible that we will learn exactly what caused them to go from a subpoena to a search warrant. we ve definitely had reporting they got surveillance tapes, and it appears at least one inside witness telling them, essentially, that although the department got representations from donald trump s own counsel, saying everything had been ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:17:00

Trump has some trouble with the justice department around the search of mar-a-lago, but when you look at it, the state of georgia presents perhaps his greatest peril. when you just look at the scope of the people who are around donald trump, trying to flip the election in the state of georgia, and everybody that is being dragged into this investigation. yeah, this local prosecutor has experience with their state. she handled the prosecution of the teacher cheating scandal in georgia, where she effectively used that statute to bring a lot of people to justice who had done something terrible within the education system. that s what she s going to do here. what s really going to be interesting to me is what happens when she indicts rudy giuliani? does he ever flip on trump? how quickly does trump kick rudy giuliani to the curb? i say it ll be, like, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:02:00

Republicans in that return to the campaign trail ahead of the midterms. saying the republican party now has embraced what he called semi-fascism. we ll have more on what he said. plus, we could learn new details this morning about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. could come, in fact, at any moment now, after a judge ordered the justice department to release a redacted copy of the affidavit by noon today. and the investigation into election meddling in georgia heats up. prosecutors now seeking testimony from former trump chief of staff mark meadows. as georgia governor brian kemp tries to avoid testifying while he runs for re-election. welcome back to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. mike barnicle, claire mccaskill still with us. we do expect to see a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search of donald trump s florida estate just a few hours from now. a federal magistrate judge ordered the justice department to unseal it by noon today. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Morning Joe 20240604 11:04:00

The reason is two-fold. one, we know the judge who saw the entire affidavit found that there was probable cause to believe that three different crimes had been committed and that evidence of those crimes would be at mar-a-lago. but there s a second reason that any information is not going to be good. that is that almost all of the information that is in that affidavit, except maybe the names of the particular witnesses who are cooperating with them, is known right now to donald trump. he knows what documents he took. he knows why he took them. he knows what he was planning to do with them. at any moment, he could have, for the last 18 months, told us all that. so there s a reason he wouldn t do that, and this is not surprising to claire, he is not doing that becaus it d be ....

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