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touch. >> you were right. that was kind of a buzz kill. politico sam stein, thank you for the great polling information. we will speak to you again soon. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this wednesday morning. stick around for "morning joe," which starts right now. a senator who has never run anything at all, but his mouth. the senator obviously resorting to lying, cheating and trying to steal. >> senator, how gullible to you really think florida vote...

of fbi agents. trump wrote, nothing like this has ever happened to the president of the united states before. trump said the raid which was unannounced amounts to, quote, prosecutorial misconduct, an attack by the radical left democrats who desperately dont want me to run for president in 2024, especially based on recent polls. trump said agents broke into his safe. former president noted that hillary clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails aof they were subpoenaed by...

>> aishah: former president trump pushing to release the affidavit but the justice department is urging the court to keep the documents secret, saying releasing it publicly would interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. >> john: documents show the government is investigating trump for potential obstruction of justice and possible violations of the espionage act. >> aishah: and whats at stake at todays hearing, and peter doocy how the white house is responding. >> john: mark me...

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saying he declassified all those documents. in reaction and a second lets go to david spunt, there is a lot of new since then. >> a lot of news and weve been on tv and we will continue to do so. check with the department of justice, no further comment from the doj after merrick garlands comments were he announced he was behind an order of the application the search warrant in mar-a-lago. this is the search and seizure warrant released today and the federal search and seizure warrant fo...

its caught on video. >> mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is "america reports," happened hours ago in new york. >> sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. >> mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdies death over his book "satanic verses." >> sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdies condition at this time? >> we do not know much about his condition. we have not re...

About those documents and they are -- im assuming classified has a lot to do with this, that they were not supposed to be removed because their classification. youre assuming when he left he still had the power of the presidency and took those documents. doesnt he also have the power to declassify documents, jonathan? >> he does. i testified on that in congress on this very issue with -- about president trump, when he was still president. he had the ultimate declassification authority that ended...

Shannon: earlier we had a democratic supporter and attorney who talked about the fact this should go through the director of national intelligence. it said the way the president is doing this is he is allying himself from congressman schiff to make a political move and make sure this gets out. >> we dont elect bureaucrats in this country to control who decides when things are classified or not classified. the president of the united states has the ultimate declassification authority. congress ha...

>> shannon: what do you make of early on, democratic supporter and attorney and he talked about the fact that this is something that should go through the director of national intelligence, and he says the way the president is doing this, if he is allying himself, as you heard here from the congressman, to make a political move here and to make sure that the information he wants released gets out. >> well, we dont elect bureaucrats in this country to control who decides when things are classifie...

President is under control by the russians. >> melissa: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more from washington. >> in the last hour, we have learned a new information at fox news about the tick-tock of how this process will work. a source close to that process told us the right outcome of the intelligence agencies are taking these records that they will order to be declassified and theyre doing their own review so they can come up with recommendations about what needs to be...