you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at mar-a-lago, agents arriving in the late morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that you commonly have seen at searches. remember
we heard from the senator, i thought, just a couple of days, even a day earlier. he s on a book tour. so he s been out talking about his new memoir. he was on cbs the day after the raid and he was much more kind of in a wait and see mode. and what was that s how i expected him to be. but what was striking to me was that he was much more forward-leaning into the the rhetoric that you re hearing more broadly from republicans. and tim scott is on the ballot. he s on the ballot in south carolina. and south carolina as one south carolina lawmaker recently said to me might as well be called trumpistan. it is extremely supportive of the former president. that s not to say if we have i asked him that question right now, with the information about the informant, or was able to have a more fulsome conversation we wouldn t get back to the other, but it was really
we re going to give them that change. we re going to bring hope back to south carolina. come to jamieharrison.com. let me ask you. oh, geez. i just spilled water all over the place. when lindsey graham last won re-election he won in 2014 by 17 points. in 2016 trump won the state by 14 points. i have heard republicans refer to the state as trumpistan. what is going to be different about your race? what s different is we re focused on the people of south carolina. we re helping people. i launched a program called harrison helps. we go into every community in south carolina and partner with
pit bull on capitol hill. beyond that there are a number of house republicans who want to take on lindsey graham in 2020 in the primary and he wants that to not happen. he wants president trump to think that lindsey graham is his guy and chase away any primary challenge. bingo. bulls eye. look, a republican from south carolina who is not lindsey graham described south carolina as trumpistan. that completely explains the politics of this. but south carolina is not the only plaps where the president is popular. what matters is the states for the senators in the short term where there is a blind level of support for the president and for the president s nominee. and that is he used the word ambush. that was on purpose because he is speaking to those republican constituents and the republican base who believe that.
such. it s something more akin to trumpistan where donald trump is above the law and his wins are supreme. that would be a tragedy for the constitutional republic that s endured since 1787. i agree 100%. we have to stand up for the rule of law at this point in our country s history, but that s going to require frankly a political act. republicans on the hill will have to finally have the country over party moment that we ve all been waiting for the what steve s talking about happens. i m not holding my breath. tig triggered by comey, wha does it say about how worried donald trump is about questions of comey s firing? or is it? this farmer s morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud,