colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanders-townsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the justice department s case against the former commander-in-chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. when the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. the indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trump s mar-a-lago resort last august. trump faces 31 counts of violating the espionage act, through willful retention of classified records. he faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. nauta
military now to provide f-16s. the president discussing the possibility of us being involved there for a year to three years out at this point. so john kirby will join us from the national security council. lots of questions on covid, china and ukraine in just a few moments. winter weather await reaction from the white house as the department of energy joins the fbi in its thinking that covid-19 may actually have leaked from the lab in china, the wuhan lab. virology lab. it s the latest in several collapses of the covid policy that locked down, masked up and mandated the united states for over two years. this is a big deal. one of the biggest revelations that the naysayers now have is a 180 or natural immunity. a new study finds that one bout of covid is better than two covid vaccine shots in protection. that is published in lancet. remember, early on they were singing a very different tune. they said absolutely didn t come from the lab. we re talking about why they might h
overrespond. i hope it doesn t happen again former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul with his assessment of the russian confrontation of the u.s. drone over the black sea we ll have much more on the diplomatic implications of the incident just ahead. plus, some republican lawmakers are pushing back on comments from ron desantis about russia s invasion of ukraine with comparisons to neville chamberlain. things got tense between ari m melber and donald trump s lawyer an interview that s incredible revealing in many ways a little later on morning joe. it s wednesday, march 15th we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire, david i ignatius mark mckinnon. first, we start with the new information that we re learning about a collision that occurred yesterday between a russian fighter jet and an unmanned u.s. surveillance drone over the black sea. the united states european command reports around 7:00 local time yesterday two russian jets began to track the drone
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classified documents that includes some labeled secret and top secret. the fda also took a handwritten note, binders of photos and other documents. that is, according to a property receipt from the search. all of this unfolds as it all unfolds, trump along with his loyal allies, continue to attack the fbi and other government officials. and this heated anti government rhetoric is already having consequences. political reports the federal judge who signed off on the search warrant has been hit with antisemitic attacks online, including threats to the synagogue where he worships. there is an attack on an fbi field office in cincinnati. an official motive list being investigated. but we know the suspects repeatedly posted online through truth social, the social network started by donald trump s media company. he called for violence against federal agents and told people to be, quote, ready for combat. this rhetoric about the fbi isn t just coming from the far right fringe on t