Pets. Can you even remember a time when something like that would have been disqualifying . Because i cant anymore republicans now elected trump three times. Democrats lost to him half the time. This election is still inexplicably close. Unfortunately, some americans watched that and thought, i dont like how kamala laughed when he called immigrants dog eaters. That wasnt very president ial. Wow. That sums it up. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is monday, september 23rd. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Nbc news national Affairs Analyst and a partner in chief political columnist at puck, John Heilemann. Good to have you with us this morning. We have six weeks to go until Election Day. Theres new Nbc News polling out showing a major shift in the 2024 race. In the latest survey, Vice President Kamala Harris leads former president Donald Trump by five points, 49 to 44 , among registered voters nationwide. Although, that result is
and his latest political stunt. jasmine crockett joins me from later legal trouble over its rendition of hamilton. we have a reporter who broke a story. all of that and more, is coming up. let s go straight to msnbc s garrett grumble, who is tracking the news details for us. gary good morning. good morning katie, three big developments, rising overnight on this big story. new york times is reporting an nbc news, is for one lawyer signed, back in june, saying all classified material, have been returned to the government. according to four people familiar with the matter. that s a big deal because they can speak to one of the possible crime is being investigated usc which is 15 19 or an administration of any matter. or a jurisdiction of any agency. that is one big part of the story. the second really is congress, and the heads of the intelligence, the hostages and house oversight committee sending a letter to daniel haynes. basically asking who saw these documents? how
that information, which comes from the search warrant and inventory unsealed today by a florida federal court, whatever you make of it doesn t even begin to capture the distance we have all travelled this week. it began with a first, the first ex-president hit with a search warrant. it ends, for now, with this. in between, we saw him and his supporters launch a campaign of intimidation against the fbi. we saw it amplified into calls for violence online and on right-wing media. we saw someone armed with a rifle and nail gun wearing body armor try to storm the fbi field office in cincinnati. a man law enforcement sources say had ties to january 6th and a far right extremist group. an account bearing his name on the former president s social media site contained a post on monday reading in part, that quote, patriots are heading to palm beach. it continued saying that if what he termed the feds try to ec bra it up these are his words quote, kill them. today apparently respond
win the battle and lose the war. you know? there is a if you discredit or politicize the justice department in the eyes of 60 million americans, you haven t gained that much even if you ve got these classified documents. so that is the balance that i think and i m sure they re thinking about, which is very difficult. because with anybody else you would just say, look. you broke the law or you seem to have broken the law. we have to get these documents back. what strikes me when you say that is the idea of obviously it is a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don t philosophy in having to think about these things but the idea of the battle versus the war one could say something quite similar, fareed, the idea of, you know, vilifying law enforcement and vilifying the agencies whose job it is to help support the enforcement of the law in the long run by doing that if you are a supporter of trump, if you are trump himself, those who are members of congress who believe tha
(burke) that s not wrong. when you bundle your home and auto policies with farmers, you save yourself up to twenty percent. (customer) that s something. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers. kinda creepy. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum our top story tonight, the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. investigators removing 11 sets of classified documents at trump s home, including one marked top secret slrks sci , one of the nation s highest levels of classification. the warrant identifies three federal crimes the doj is looking into as part of the investigation including possible violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. i want to bring in fareed zakaria host of cnn s fareed zakaria gps. fareed, it s nice to see you right now. i would love it if you can try to help us put this into perspective here. you ve got an fbi warrant with all these different sets of secret documents incl