it s subway s biggest refresh yet. welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 in the morning in los angeles. 9:00 a.m. here on the east coast. as we begin our fourth hour of morning joe. i ll willie geist and let s dive right in with a new development surrounding the fbi search of president trump s mar-a-lago home in florida. they have until thursday to provide a rezakted copy of the affidavit and the former president is hinting at taking more legal action. senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has the latest. reporter: former president trump now teasing what he calls a major legal motion. he and his attorneys saying they plan to ask for a third party, a so-called special master to review what was taken by the fbi during their search of mar-a-lago. pointing to the fourth amendment which protects from unreasonable searches and seizures. one of the benefits of a special master, if the master agree with this, is we could stop the doj in their tracks when it comes
good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. first it was cocaine and steroids, now it is energy drinks. the expertations game for tomorrow s big presidential debate is shifting more often than a race car driver at indy. and we re learning more about the growing stakes as a new poll say a majority of americans will be tuning in. plus a stunning courtroom surprise. the man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a fourth of july parade in illinois at the last minute in court rejecting a plea agreement. how survivors and families of victims are reacting as the case now proceeds to trial. and an american journalist in a glass cage as his secret trial begins in russia. the falsely accused wall street journal reporter faces up to 20 years in prison following a trial expected to last for months. i ll ask an executive for the journal what this means for efforts to free him. but we begin with the expectations game. which has tak
ryan riley. this is not surprising those stark to hear it from the mouth of an officer. as i just said there was an attack on a field office and calls for confrontation, let s put it that way, to be mild about it from senior members of the united states senate, not just with the fbi, but with the irs, saying there are 80,000 agents with ar-15s coming for small business owners and they ve raised the stakes that violence is obviously something that people are concerned about. yeah, that is right. they re really living the front line implications of this rhetoric that we ve seen floating around about the fbi. i think there have been a number of victim pact statements and in some of the january 6 cases so far. but this one just really stuck out with me because of how stark it made this out and it also referenced specifically the raid on mar-a-lago at the very end and how that rhetoric he was
their raw and painful stories. for the father of three girls abused, the weight of their words in court on friday was too much to bear. we have what happens. we want to warn you, it contains graphic testimony. you son [ bleep ]. reporter: this father s anger. as part of the sentencing to grant me five minutes in a locked room with this demon. reporter: aimed squarely at the man who abused his three daughters. would you give me one minute? i m going to have to reporter: from this angle, you can see the court bailiff quickly get larry nassar out of the room. more than 200 survivors in two different courtrooms over two weeks provided victim pact statements in the case against nassar, enraging and disgusting the country. randall listened to two of his
throughout the united states. just so we understand this scott, the third phase that would begin tomorrow there are family members that would be able to present victim pact statements? reporter: that s correct. and we heard some of that during the actual trial and now it comes back to them. and as this multi-faceted sentencing phase goes on it becomes more and more incumbent on the individual jurors conscience. in this phase, any individual juror if they felt he should get life in prison they could have put an end to it. the same thing happens in maybe more so third phase. it s a moral decision by each juror but they have evidence to hear from family me believes and survivors. and also it s one more opportunity for james holmes who has not testified in this case to make a statement in his own defense. we ll see if that happens in