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the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. im john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. this timeline we just keep getting more data points. >> its like every day you learn that the conversations on getting these documents back goes back further than we thought. >> it was a problem it seems from the beginning. an email from the national archives indicates ...

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...

planting evidence at mar-a-lago. then, after it was revealed the documents were classified, trumps team said he had taken them home to work on them, falsely claiming that president obama had done the same. then, this third reason why it was okay from trumps team, quote, he had a standing order that documents were moved from the oval office, taken to the residence, were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. former national security adviser john bolton told nbc news this....

trumps inner circle seemed to understand was completely illegal. also tonight, its right out in the open now. new evidence of the violence and menace at theeart of todays maga driven republican party. but first i want to show you a bizarre moment from the 2020 news worm hole you probably dont remember. >> here? >> here. >> the electors are here. theyve been checked in. >> theyre also electors, not all -- >> all 16 electors are going to be vote in the electoral college -- >> but these a...

When these freed hostages land overnight in the d. C. Area, they will be immediately offered help from the Defense Department at adjusting to life on the outside. And so far we havent heard anybody say anything but positive things that americans are heading home but there are a lot of complaints about the deal to get them here. Ransom payment 6 billion. A billion bucks per prisoner. President biden says today five innocent americans imprisoned in iran are finally coming home after many months of...

The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. ...

Power to president biden and so it seemed like a slap dash operation. do you blame the guy who packed it or do you blame the person who was standing over him or was there even an operation. one thing im sure you and i both know from covering trump there werent a lot of operations, there werent a lot of procedures going on, it was a real slap dash kind of thing. it could have been an oversight or it could have been trump saying i want this, i want that, i want this. we havent figured that out. >>...

Could be uncovered, but also nervous about the impact it may have on this falls midterms, particularly if this, if trump decides that in order to counteract this, he needs to declare his candidacy for president, a lot of gop members that i speak to say that would be the worst thing that it could be for the party, trump would be a distraction and shift the focus from what they want to talk about, things like inflation, president bidens record, et cetera. >> so how we got here, mark, your reportin...

Former president if he is found to mishandle classified information after leaving office. this is something that he signed into law in 2018. it upgraded the seriousness of wrongdoing in terms of moving classified information from a misdemeanor into a felony. increasing the maximum sentence to five years. >> that could be a problem. marc, in the piece you co-authored for nbc news, you write that trumps style of handling white house documents has been described by people who worked for him as slap...

>> officials saying the attacks are looking better coordinated now. does russia have the leadership, traening, troops to adapt and recover from previous losses? >> given enough time and enough push from behind, they will make progress. they are still mostly in the east despite the talk about the wide open areas and so forth. the ground is still soft. theres no mad slap dash to try to run through the ukrainian lines which is what they try to do north of kyiv. as they practice day by day moving fo...