that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
american. in the coming days and weeks, we will monitor all of the key matchups across the country, including pennsylvania when the socialist burning-loving trust fund brat never worked a day in his life in a hoodie john federman is now refusing to debate his opponent, renowned surgeon washington outsider now, early voting in pennsylvania starts in two weeks. the people in the commonwealth of pennsylvania need answers to all of the insane radical positions that are truly to the left of bernie sanders. after his catastrophic stroke, we wish him the best health it does not appear that federman is capable of debating, much less serving as a u.s. senator. all those details coming up. plus, the political weaponization of our justice system has never been more apparent. we will bring you shocking new revelations about the hunter biden cover-up, along with the latest on the doj s witch hunt with donald trump. the upcoming election, they wanted to be about anything other than, th
former president s legal team, slows down the investigation into the thousands of pages from mar-a-lago on august 8th, hundreds marked classified. after a nearly two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it, she made her decision writing a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendtations and evaluate claims for the return of property. she continues the government is en joined from further review and use of the materials seized from plaintiff s residence, pending review. the government may continue to review the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessment. to determine the classification levels of the documents will not stop, it will continue. doj can continue its classification assessment. actual investigation slows down. no comment from the department of justice at this hour but it is certainly possible for the doj to appeal the ruling to
it was another fast-moving newsweek. and here are some of the conversations you just might have missed. m it is hard to believe donald trump was elected in the senate, when i was -8 years old. that is true. president biden was elected when i was -8 years old. i m going to get myself in trouble. yeah, you are, because they are both old. oh well. republican congressman, ryan style, in his opening act with donald trump off the rally his f thoughts on tuesday, how did go for you? totally botching an about a joke about president biden a. but by mistake totally making m fun of donald trump s age. we are one week away from the first presidential debate and donald trump appears to be lowering expectations and making excuses. during his rally in wisconsin on tuesday, he pushed the conspiracy that biden could only perform well if he is pumped up on drugs. is anyone going to watch the debate? he s going to be so pumped up, he is going to be pumped up, you know all of that stuff th
trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that he s losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i don t see that changing any time soon. we ll certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. right now millions of americans are getting blasted by a heat wave. when you show the weather app it shows the middle finger emoji. so hat in maine the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. [ applause ] it s so hot in new york this week the rats are wearing crop tops. [ laughter ] it is so hot in south dakota, kristi noem s dog good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very going to be a very hot wednesday, june 19th. jooernt. we ll bring in the former communications