nbc news that jack smith has a tape of donald trump talking about a classified document he took with him from the white house. an audio recording of the former president talking to aides about iran, and a document he knew was classified. detailing a potential u.s. attack. cnn reports that according to their sources trump allegedly acknowledged that its classification limited his ability to share it. nbc news has not heard the recording but our source tells us that it was played during grand jury testimony. donald trump has denied any wrong doing. ken dilanian is with us to explain what we know. andrew weissmann is here to explain the significance. and vaughn hillyard will join us in just a moment from the campaign trail with how things are going on the road as donald trump tries to block out ron desantis. what exactly are the two men saying or not saying about this new reporting? joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. so, ken, what do
first bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas. 11:00 p.m. on a friday night the press office at department of homeland security released numbers, 11 p.m. on a friday night. an unusual time to be releasing a statement. dana, good morning that s exactly right. as blatant of a friday night news drop as you will ever see. keep in mind these september numbers are the last numbers the public would get a chance to see when it comes to the border before the mid-terms. those numbers are historic. let s take a look at them right now. september 2022, fiscal year 2022 they report more than 227,000 migrant encounters, that s the highest september in dhs history. the numbers also show fiscal year 2022 ended with nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters. that s the highest fiscal year ever recorded. perhaps most concerning if we can pull up this graphic. fiscal year 2022 ended with 98 border patrol arrests of people on the f.b.i. terror watch list. under president trump the high
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
necessary. the idea of armed auditors coming for americans is chilling. no surprise the reaction swift and brutal. former acting dni rick grenell says democrats are ready to audit yu using a gun if necessary. the democrats are anti-guns unless it s guns for their new i.r.s. agents authorized to use deadly force. they are coming after entrepreneurs and small business owners and coming after our middle class hard working americans. there is no question about that. then you layer on top of that what you just mentioned. their criminal division with the power of enforcement of a gun essentially. harris: another source of outrage house democrats prioritizing i.r.s. expansion rather than police. speaker nancy pelosi announcing several public safety bills are now on the back burner. the house plans to vote on that spending bill as soon as tomorrow. republican senator john kennedy from the great state of louisiana, member of the judiciary committee and now in focus. great to see
out among s a crowd of political science at an intersection. that s exactly what i wanted was just to see my sign and have a laugh with people. that s right, lucky us. there is a little something to laugh about. so what s one guy really up to you and what s he doing with the money people are giving him? so the big number of the day is not 1.3 billion, the lottery is over folks. the big number is 100. which is 100 days away from the 2022 midterm elections. just a holidays away from getting answers to some of our most precious and political questions. how will voters react to the fall of roe v. wade and will democrats be able to maintain control of the house and senate? well president biden still approval ratings be a liability to his party? a lot of questions. and we re turning to monica alba for answers. let s start with you. so you ve been following the senate race in missouri where disgraced former governor eric greitens is hoping to win the gop nomination. he previ