and good morning to you, it is saturday, august 27th. i am ali velshi, we are learning more about why the federal government destroy their decision to conduct the unprecedented surge on the former presidents private residence and why a federal judge granted the warrant for them to do. at less than 24 hours ago, redacted copy of the affidavit for that search warrant was unsealed. the document is what the justice department submitted to a federal judge to convince him to approve the search of mar-a-lago, so that fbi agents could recover the box of materials that properly belong to the united states government, many of which turned out to be classified documents. the affidavit does not contain proof of a crime. but it details why the justice department believes it has probable cause to believe that a crime may have been committed. the justice department calls the affidavit, quote, a roadmap to the government s ongoing investigation. that is why about half of the 38-page document
Like a figure skater. The guy from tonga tonga. Guess who is going to be greased up watching . Like i say, it is a great thing this is a taped show, hallie. See you later. Erase the greased up thing from your mind. Good morning, everyone. Im ali velshi, not very greased up. Kind of. Im stephanie ruhle. Its friday, september 9th. Im lucky to have ali as a partner. Its friday. Lets get started. Tough new questions for this white house about who knew what and when when it comes to rob porter. Aides are defending kelly, refusing to answer what he knew last year about the accusations from porters two exwives. For my marriage, it was verbally and emotionally abusive. She says rob porter gave her that black eye. Do you believe her . Of course i believe her. Of course i believe her. If im being frank with you, if he hasnt already been abusive with hope, he will. Particularly now that he is under a lot of stress and scrutiny. Thats when the behaviors come out. If he hasnt already, he will. Your
mitch mcconnell. he knew he s already said, i m not about that. it s an interesting point. there are fissures within the republican party right now, and i want to explore those a little bit more. let s go to florida where donald trump just made a closing argument of sorts, nbc s aly but tally the other ali v is in miami. ali v, good evening. we ve seen before, as jonathan was just alluding to, seems like donald trump is starting something brand-new. brand-new interparty feuds, but there are ones that we really could ve seen. the fact that he s out on the campaign trail talking about the other people that could run in 2024 while he himself actively teases another run, potentially in the coming days. none of that is necessarily surprising, maybe just arriving at the ultimate conclusion a little bit earlier than some of the party would ve liked. we are squarely in calendar year 2022. nevertheless, listen to how trump is talking about the
gop politicians. they re coming in wisconsin, there s mark finchem in arizona. what happens to democracy with violent, lawless people becoming the politicians? that is fascism. ruth, and ali, one of the points you make is that the attack on paul pelosi, there is an opportunity for everybody including republicans to condemn it. but in fact, many joked about it. this is extremely sad, and extremely tragic and worrying. it s truly the end of any bipartisanship, because some of these gop lawmakers have worked for decades. and of course it continues january 6th, where they are hunting people down in trying to harm them. the problem is that once political violence starts, it s very difficult to contain. so the newsom at the capitol on january 6th was not for democrats, it was for mike pence.
so that s what is going to come down to. it ll be interesting with these gubernatorial races, as well as the senate race. more importantly, when we get to it, some have predicted a possible runoff in early december between raphael warnock and herschel walker, if neither of them get that 50%. ali, one quick thing on arizona and your comments on turn out, i find it interesting that mark kelly invited president obama to campaign for him. that is telling, because you wouldn t think that president obama would even be asked to go there. they re basically fracking for votes, making sure that they do everything possible to get as many people out to vote. we need a quick break. after that, will make sure that your vote counts. where it joined by the election lawyer who is already fighting in courts across the country to ensure that your voices heard. voices heard.