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stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. >> the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. >> its worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy...

which well zoom in on in just a moment. but i want to focus on this. we are learning over and over again this election cycle that nominating strong candidates does matter if a political party wants to quwin an election, it matters a lot. but the rules may have changed. with voters willing perhaps to tolerate things that they just wouldnt put up with in the past. herschel walker is about to test this hypothesis. he is locked in a tight race in georgia against democratic incumbent rafael...

a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we dont know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, "substantial grand jury information" and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-se...

million dollars a day for at least two days following the fbi search. and hes continue to send out dozens of emails and text to supporters. and then theres our cnn exclusive tonight. 18 top trump administration officials saying, the claim from the former president and his allies that he had a so-called standing order to declassify any order he took from the oval office. they say, this is nonsense. >> he had a standing order, theres the wouldve been looking for. that the documents remov...

do those specific words create specific legal jeopardy for donald trump? im john berman with brianna keilar, and judge bruce reinhart released several procedural court documents used to justify the search of mar-a-lago, providing new details and maybe a sharper focus on the president himself as a potential subject of a criminal probe. this is the document that was released and there is specific information in here about willful retention. in other words, they say he knew he had documen...

taken over by drag races, drifters, critics are slamming the soft on crime approach. in chicago, kevin graham, and louisiana senator bill cassidy, both will be joining us in moments. >> john: begin with the fox news alert to kick off "america reports." former president trumps legal team set to square off in court moments from now. both parties awaiting to hear whether a special master will be granted to review documents seized in the mar-a-lago raid. that court hearing scheduled to hap...

down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi...

The former presidents declassification powers, which, of course, have come up and have ban periodic issue. the filing says trump was president of the united states when the documents bearing classification marking were delivered in palm beach. his authority to classify or declassify information bearing on national security flowed from this constitutional investment of power in the president. but of course they are still refusing to say whether or not he actually did declare them declassified. li...

Russias help, so it is remarkable plot twist, danny cevallos, that apparently the fbi thinks they might have been at mar-a-lago. we know thats not true. is there anything he just said in terms of that nonsense or his claims he could declassify things by thinking about it. is any of this true? >> jonathan, give me a minute. i am currently declassifies documents by thinking about them. its surprising that trump would say declassification powers extend this far. more significant, i cant help but go...

Quote, a complete fiction. but as we say, don, wait. theres more. olivia troye, former homeland security adviser to vice president mike pence at that time, called it ludicrous. another former senior intelligence official laughed and said it was ridiculous. and a very senior trump administration official called it, quote, bullshit. in fact, a couple of them did, don. >> its great reporting. but i mean, we kind of knew, right? especially the last part. jamie, the president has declassification pow...