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the hour. thank you for being here. the single text exchange and the time line, cnn was first to report the secrets service provided only one text exchange to the attorney general though the watchdog had requested a month's worth of records from two dozen secret service employees. the agency is under more scrutiny now after it revealed that it has not been able to recover any data they say was lost during a phone migration. it is worth noting that congress sent the secret service a request to preserve records ten days after the capitol attack, that phone migration didn't begin until ...

bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let's begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. >> reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw d...

aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. >> and the united kingdom generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems like it could be a drag-out fight to be the uk's next prime minister. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start in the politics lead on capitol hill. members of the january 6th committee are preparing for tomorrow's primetime hearing. the hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president trump during the three-plus hours that rioters were storming the capitol and the president's activities were unknown...

good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 9th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump's legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the tr...

ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president's florida estate when he left office. at the time, the ...