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but despite their very best efforts over many years, diversity neverr came to martha s vineyard. it was tragic. imagine an 18th century british frigate adrift on the high seas with no lyme s sailors slowly going mad , convulsing, dying,u excruciating deaths from scurvy. that was martha s vineyard, except it wasn t lime juiceonic they lacked.wi they had plenty of thatth because you can t make a ginou and tonic without what martha st vineyard lacked was diversity, which is to say strengthhi. yesa martha s vineyard was a very weak place as of yesterday. morning.white. that island was 89% white monochrome and utterly homogenous. nearly everybody there was ev a rich democrat. 80% voted for joe biden. the median home price was over a million dollars. and then in a single blessed moment, everything changed. ived relief arrived from an unlikelyl source, governor rhonda santurceysource of florida, havg made his own state of paradise, decided to help otherr states desperate i ....
american experiment. that s also why democrats, particularly the president, need to be more focused on persuasion, rather than just condemnation. naming the problem we face is important, but it is not sufficient. why you can t reason people out of something they weren t reasoned into, you can appeal to shared values and you can honor the republicans who protected the peaceful transfer of power. but the big picture is what we really need to keep in mind. defending democracy is a top concern for americans across party lines and we need to channel that in a constructive way, without falling into false equivalency and we can do that by staying true to the facts and applying principles without regard to partisanship. while also appealing to a set a spirit of patriotic grace. and that s your reality check. new day continues right now. an emotional back to school day in uvalde, texas. good morning, everyone. i m john berman with brianna keilar. the return to class has been ....
it s continue:in the east, 7:00 a.m. in the west. today americans have been dreading the book end to one of the busiest travel seasons on record that has certainly seen its fair share of headaches for travelers. we re live from atlanta s airport as folks hope to start off the new year the right way. and overseas, russia unleashing a swarm of drone strikes on ukraine, showing no signs of backing down from the strategy of targeting key infrastructure amid the bitter winter cold. we re live in the region with the latest as we approach the one-year mark of russia s invasion. also ahead, the family of the suspect arrested in connection to the killing of those four university of idaho students is addressing that arrest. what the suspect s lawyer and the police chief there are telling nbc news. plus, new chaos on capitol hill with republicans set to take control of the house. how kevin mccarthy s bid for the speaker s gavel just got even more complicated thanks to his ve ....
for maryland and was appointed by former president trump. i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public, the department s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. now earlier, president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered. this time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. they were locked in his garage. another document was found inside the house. now the attorney general revealed that the justice department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. it was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents ....
documents. we ll have the very latest on the redacted copy of the mar-a-lago affidavit and what could be coming from the january 6 committee. plus, is the gop already conceding senate races in two states? what we re learning about the major pact that s pulling millions of dollars in advertising. and we re almost ready for liftoff. we ll be joined by a nasa astronaut ahead of the artemis launch later this morning. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 29th, i m jonathan lemire. glad to be back. thanks for joining us this morning. there s new reaction after a heavily-redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago was unsealed friday afternoon of the 36-page affidavit revealed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presiden ....