documents. we ll have the very latest on the redacted copy of the mar-a-lago affidavit and what could be coming from the january 6 committee. plus, is the gop already conceding senate races in two states? what we re learning about the major pact that s pulling millions of dollars in advertising. and we re almost ready for liftoff. we ll be joined by a nasa astronaut ahead of the artemis launch later this morning. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 29th, i m jonathan lemire. glad to be back. thanks for joining us this morning. there s new reaction after a heavily-redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago was unsealed friday afternoon of the 36-page affidavit revealed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. th
my thunder here. and if you go to peter struck, i got nothing for the whole let s take the insurance policy. yeah, all right, hannity well, great job on that. i loved watching that. all right. we ll see you tomorrow. i m laura ingraham and this is ingram angle fromi a what fes like, i don t know, caracas, venezuela tonight, the web they weave. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, just hours ago, we learned more about just how petty and venal attorney general merrick garland is that he would send federal agents into the home of a former president and likely 2020 four candidate over a document dispute. the washington post is reporting tonight that monday s raid came months after the trump legal team voluntarily met with government investigators at mar a lagounovt this was back in june.a- now the ostensible reason for the visit was the concern that some documents were retained by trump when he left office rather than being turned in into the national archives. trump stopp
also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department s historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump s mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department s investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified material. with many republicans today questioning why the fbi executed this warrant now. at the time, trump himself was in new york, where a single photo outside trump tower today captures the mixed reaction. look at this. one group with a large sign that reads, arrest trump. while another group carried a flag reading trump 24, save america. on paper, trump blasted the search saying in a statement, ag
if you visit these killing centers today, you ll see thousands upon thousands of shoes like this. the shoes of the victims. the german took their shoes because they were going to reuse them and recycle them if you will. but of course the victims would be killed. this is what s left of those lives. reporter: these shoes are here and the only surviving elements where all those people who were exterminated. this is the trace of the people before they were gassed. reporter: i think of those shoes, you know, my four grandparents. we didn t have anything. we had nothing. it was just horrendous, horrendous situation. it was so important, so timely to remind people who don t know anything about it. and i think it s so important and i m sure you ll agree, jim. people who come to visit washington go to the washington mall. take a tour of this museum. even those of us who have grown up, children of holocaust survivors, we learn a lot every time we go there, and it is so importan
that s an admission by jack smith that they were overclassified, that they don t constitute national defense information. the 31 documents that he has been charged with, those are going to have to be declassified. they ll have be released, shown to the jury. there you know, everybody talks about declassification, classification. to me, it doesn t matter. whether something is classified, declassified, that s somebody s opinion whether it constitutes national defense information. the statue will prohibit willful possession of documents defined as which that the defendant has reason to believe the disclosure of which would be damaging to national security. so a lot of these things, if you talk about, you know, for example, plans to attack iran that were rejected, that were never carried out, that are several years old. brian: okay, right. are those really national