we ll explain what the ruling says. ahead, both lawmakers expelled from the tennessee statehouse for protesting gun violence have been reappointed to their seats we ll explain why this is not the end of the partisan turmoil in tennessee. and louisville police released a chilling 911 call from a woman who told the dispatcher she was the mother of the old national bank shooter. we ll play for you her frantic call and have the latest in that investigation. plus, donald trump is back in new york this morning for a different legal issue. this one with the state s attorney general we ll take you through what s happening today in that case meanwhile, there are new developments in the investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents we ll look at the reporting on a map trump may have taken with him to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news ckatty kay.
already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason
government reported a second straight quarter of negative economic growth. so this complicated picture is why president biden is pushing back against talk of a recession. with both senator schumer and manchin. that s consistent with the transition to a stable steady growth and lower inflation, but if you look at our job market consumer spending, business investment, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. joining us now to take a closer look at this, cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman and ben white, politico chief economic correspondent and host of the politico money podcast. steve, when you take all of this data into account, all these indexes, what does it tell you about the state of the economy right now? it tells us that for sure the economy has slowed. remember, we did like 6% growth in the fourth quarter and now we ve come off two quarters in a row. the first quarter we came off because of what was happening with inventories. thi
searching for while on the property. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst norm mizen, special council for the house judiciary committee in trump s first impeachment trial, analyst susan glasser and dave arenberg, the state attorney for palm beach county, florida. susan, i almost butchered your name, so i ll begin with you. i ve got to ask you the washington post report is, frankly, breathtaking. i have to ask what is your reaction to the reports that they were searching for not just classified documents, but those that may be related to nuclear weapons, not somewhere where it s secured under the, you know, cover of the federal government, but mar-a-lago? what s your reaction to that? yeah. i mean look, laura, this is a very, very serious allegation. this is the kind of thing that government does not screw around about and obviously the idea of nuclear secrets being held in an insecure way at mar- a-lago is just extraordinary and certainly really changes the conversation i
criminal charges in the classified documents case but the former president rejected the idea. the post reports that chris kise wanted to negotiate a settlement with doj attorneys back in the fall. this is of course after that august search of mar-a-lago by the fbi. they found a trove of highly sensitive documents, including secrets about our nation s nuclear program. cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team about the post s reporting and some are casting doubt on this having been a real opportunity to prevent trump s indictment. the reporting also notes that rather than listening to actual lawyers, cnn and the post found, both report that trump had been following the advice of this man. it s tom fitten who doesn t have a law degree. he is the head of the conservative activist group judicial watch. he started calling trump in february of last year, urging him not to turn over the documents and also not to cooperate with federal investigators. let s bring in cnn senior