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january 6th investigation in recent weeks. the interview of rudy giuliani finally, right? hes a key figure in former president trumps effort to overturn the 2020 election and then today the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, i want to remind people why he is so key here. lets take a listen to a brief cliff from the january 2021 call between trump and the secretary of state. >> so, look, all i want to do is this -- i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we ...

his mar-a-lago resort. well go through the charges and whats next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. well explain why. and well have the reaction from trumps republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, june 9th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been...

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with republicans like hannity finally realizing that the partys toxic, regressive, authoritarian policies have sparked a voter backlash. also tonight, new reporting that donald trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf resort, as repeatedly has claimed. plus, elon musks off the rails interview. the man who runs one of the biggest social media sites raises alarms with toxic comments about ...

as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former presidents attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. well have the...

again. im stephanie ruhle, and we start this evening with breaking news that says donald trump was warned late last year he could face serious legal trouble if he did not return white house records taken to mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that warning came from one time white house lawyer eric herschmann. you probably remember herschmanns very colorful testimony to the january 6th committee. he talked about his efforts to try to stop attempts to keep trump in power after he lost...

absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trumps private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new repo...

support of ohio republican senate candidate one j.d. vance. at one point, trump spoke over a song that was all but identical to an anthem of the qanon movement. attendees responded, this is real, guys, that pictures real. they responded with that one finger salute you see on your screen. "new york times" reports this, quote, it was the first time in the memory of some trump aides that such a display had occurred at one of his rallies. the song played at the rally was a song called "mir...

but along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the governments investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that cam...

weekend. welcome to "the beat," im katie phang in for ari melber. the new detailed inventory list of property the feds seized from trumps mar-a-lago resort. i have it here. this is it. and tonight i can report what the feds took from mar-a-lago, from the 45 office, all storage rooms, and all rooms or areas where documents could be stored. but the most alarming detail is what was not found. the doj claiming 48 folders that were marked classified were empty. raising the prospect that som...