the reidout with joy reid is up next. tonight on the reidout you re the president of the united states. you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. yeah, that s what he told fox. but new reporting tonight indicates prosecutors have in their possession tape of trump after he left the white house acknowledging that he was holding on to highly sensitive material, which he did not, in fact, declassify. also tonight, the latest on the debt ceiling bill, which comes up for a critical house vote just a short time from now. the great lawrence o donnell joins me to discuss. and maryland governor wes moore will be here. he and other democratic governors are enacting bold, progressive policies that help people instead of hurting them. imagine that? in sharp contrast to the
to the effect of, you know, if i can show you this if you undermine these arguments. but making clear that he doesn t believe he can show it to them. and i think that is a key part of the story. it s very much is. the other part is that this really gives us one of the first indications of what else might be here. it is not just letters from kim jong-un, what do we know based on your reporting about the military significance of the documents that we are talking about. right, that has kind of been the dispute over was a classified, was not classified. this is a plan that we are told was essentially about potentially striking a run. obviously the u.s. is a lot of plans for the pentagon, backup pans, in case of emergency. and that is what we are told this was. that he was referencing. trying to say, essentially, but it was something that general milley had prepared for him. obviously milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we are told actually that this was not a
mar-a-lago back to the national archives. there was back and forth. this was in the summer of 2021. trump is meeting with people writing an autobiography for mark meadows. they are talking about a story that came out in the new yorker that susan glasser published. it was on general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it was about his concerns in those waning days of the trump presidency that trump was going to take military action when it came to iran. what we re told is on this tape is trump discussing a documents that classified, that he says, if he could show it to the people that he s speaking to, it would undermine general milley s argument. general milley was pushing back on donald trump taking military action in aairan. the recording is in the hands of prosecutors. we know you can hear paper rustling on this recording. we know there are people laughing in the background. i m told this is about two minutes long and it pertains to iran. it s part of a
buendias. the defiant response from gop governors and how this could factor into the november midterms. plus, sticker shock. mortgage rates jumping to the highest level in a decade. what that means for buyers and what it says about the market. tropical storm fiona closes in. when conditions will start to deteriorate and the potential impacts to the island. plus, procrastinators take note. was this headline written for me? travel experts say this is the time to book holiday flights . good morning and welcome to your new day . it s saturday, september 17th. whitney, do you feel that? it s the weekend. it is the weekend. it s almost the end of summer. it is. we re grateful to have you here with us this morning. we re grateful you re making us part of your saturday. up first, a lot to get to. but we start with the political battle over immigration heating up. florida s governor doubling down on his plan to relocate migrants from the southern border. he arranged f
mary peltola who takes her seat in congress tomorrow, joins me tonight. we begin on the 60th anniversary of john f. kennedy s historic moonshot speech announcing his goal of putting a man on the moon and bringing him home. today, president joe biden announced new steps in his own moonshot vision, ending cancer as we know it, a cause he s truly passionate about since the passing of his son beau. we face another inflection point, and together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope, and optimism. i believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same nation purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all. and while biden was busy presidenting, his predecessor surprised everyone today, returning to d.c. looking a bit disheveled, apparently to play golf at his course in virginia. the golfing field trip comes as donald trump s legal team is doubling