hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
attorneys, look, you guys take the lead, look at everything, dig through it all. have free reign. let us know what is in there and whether or not we need to come pick it up, which they reportedly according to the wall street journal today did and in the end go down. obviously how this played out is a very big concern for national security. whenever classified documents are involved, something that the president himself has admitted is a very serious issue. so jonathan turley says if this handling story is true, this development is what he calls breathtaking in its scope in this case. we re also glad to have the house judiciary committee chairman now, jim jordan. that is his new title. he s joining us. we ll get his thoughts on what their role will be in the judiciary committee with all of this in just a moment. first, to the white house. they re waiting for this to get underway. we could get a two-minute warning at any time. jacqui heinrich is there in position ready to g
intensifies his nuclear rhetoric amid a faltering military campaign in ukraine. the biden administration says it has told russia privately exactly what the consequences would be for using a nuclear weapon. we ll have the very latest on that. plus, a head turning new revelation concerning the attack on the capitol. what a former adviser to the january 6th committee says about a phone call between the trump white house and a rioter while the attack was underway. also this morning, tropical storm ian has just strengthened into a category 1 hurricane as it continues its track toward cuba and florida. we re watching that. and it is just six weeks until voters decide the balance of power in congress. we ll tell you where things stand this morning and what s in play. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 26th. we begin with the new polling from the new york times that shows 54% believe donald trump threatened american democracy when he left office. 51
today. we begin with blockbuster revelation the justice department. in a court filing last night prosecutors say classified documents were, quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the filing making it abundantly clear the justice department is focused on efforts by trump and those around him to obstruct their investigation. the document also includes this photo, and you can see in it several folders there seized by the fbi. they are clearly marked top secret and secret. it is important to note these photos from the fbi represent their evidence that they were documenting as they do on a regular basis. this is not to show how they were discovered. prosecutors are asking a federal judge to deny the former president s request to have a special master appointed. trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to all of this. let s begin with cnn s evan perez live in washington with more on these new allegations and there is a lo
My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c