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moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren't exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country's south. good morning. welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 30th, i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump's mar-a-lago resort potentially contai...

collins in washington. >> reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what e...

extraordinary dispute play out in south florida this afternoon. it's going to be a high stakes argument over what level of transparency the american public is owed when it comes to the justice department's investigation of sensitive documents that were stored at the former president's home. the doj does not want the affidavit released, claiming it could compromise their investigation. cnn has learned that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching mar-a-lago. eric trump says his father will absolutely release the tapes at what ...

asked to turn those security cameras off when this search occurred and refused to do so. i want to read to you what one person close to former president trump told us when we asked do you think that this is a good idea? should he release these tapes? here is what that person said. quote, it's one thing to read a bunch of numbers on an inventory list, it's another to see law enforcement agents actually carrying a dozen plus boxes out of president trump's home knowing they probably contain sensitive documents. i don't see how that helps him. so, again, this has drawn mixed reactions in...

involving the doj's investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization's former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. "the new york times" reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigat...