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live picture of new york city at 9:00 in the morning. happy friday morning to you. especially waking out on the west coast at 6:00 a.m. i'm willie geist. any moment now we could see the affidavit, the fbi used to acquire the warrant to search former president trump's florida home. a judge ordered a redacted copy to be released. kristin welker has the latest. >> reporter: today americans will get their first glimpse of the affidavit used to justify the extraordinary search warrant executed by the fbi at mar-a-lago. former president trump's florida estate. a federal judge in florida has ordered a redacted copy of the affidavit including blacked out portions the justice department wants kept secret to be made public by noon today. the affidavit is believed to contain critical information about the government's

investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified materials at mar-a-lago. media companies including nbc news asked the judge to make the affidavit public as mr. trump and his allies have repeatedly called for it to be unsealed. >> i think what the judge did was release all of the information. this way people could know whether there is a serious allegation or this is more manufactured. >> reporter: but the judge is siding with the justice department to release only portions of the affidavit. calling those redactions narrowly tailored to serve the government's legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation. >> do you think we will learn anything new once the affidavit is unsealed? >> i think it is more likely than not going to be a lot of big black boxes or blocks on the affidavit, sort of obliterating the part we most want to see. >> >> reporter: in their search of the former president trump's estate, they seized 11 sets of

classified documents. trump described himself as innocent as a person could be and claimed without evidence that the investigation is politically motivated. president biden said this week he had no prior knowledge of the search. but he's publicly focused on mr. trump with a fiery speech to democrats last night. >> trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their chis. to go backwards, full of anger and violence and hate and division. >> reporter: the president starkly attacking what he called maga philosophy, saying off camera, quote, it's like semi fascism. >> kristin welker reporting for us there. and let's bring into our conversation correspondent ken dilanian and former acting solicitor general and now msnbc legal analyst neal katyal. mike barnical is still with us as well. we're officially within business hours in south florida. could be very soon that we get to see this affidavit.

what is the thinking about what we may see and may not see when this is made public? >> good morning, willie. well i'm getting signals that we're going to see at least something that will interest us and it is not just a sea of black ink that will cause toners across newsrooms to run out in copy machines and but what we won't see clearly is any of the sensitive details that betray the course of the investigation or the identities of witnesses or the identities of law enforcement officials. there is also some certain things that have been reported but are protected by law because they're grand jury information. for example, fact that a grand jury was served on the trumps down at mar-a-lago for both the documents and later for surveillance footage, i don't believe, neal could correct me if i'm wrong, by law they could acknowledge that and even though it is reported in the public because it is covered by rule 6-e. it is illegal to make that public.

so we're not going to see any of that stuff. but what i think we could see is some kind of description of the procedural history in this case, the long negotiations that began back in 2021 when the federal government was trying to get these documents back. it started with the national archives. they realized that presidential records were missing and then they finally got 15 boxes in january and discovered there were highly classified documents contained in the boxts and then they started a criminal investigation and even after that there was a four-month delay before the fbi got access to the classified documents. and then now we know what happens there. there was back and forth and subpoenas and first they asked nicely and then sent subpoenas and then finally got the search warrant. i think this document could show us that far from a sudden decision and a abuse of power and overreach, that the government bent over backwards to give the former president a chance to give the documents back, willie. >> we've seen that in so much

media reporting. the national archives politely asking and saying we'll have to take this to congress if you don't turn over these documents. so what will you be looking for as these documents come out, as this affidavit is released. we don't know what will be redact and what won't. when with do you hope to see. >> yesterday's decision by the judge basically meant the justice department won. and we're discussing this on the program last week, that federal judges are not in the business of uncovering witnesses in ongoing investigations and turning them over to the targets. so it is not surprising that jared kushner and others are calling for all of this information to be released. but that has very serious consequences for law enforcement and for the ability to conduct an ongoing investigation. so the proposal or the justice department i suppose was to have a very blacked out affidavit. and they won that. the judge said that is fine. you've balanced the risks and benefits accordingly. but think the justice department

won in a second way yesterday and nothing that they tended, but that is going to provide some information about what this search is about. and that is what i think ken was talking about. so not about the specific witnesses, certainly not about grand jury information, as ken mentioned, but the justice department doesn't have to blackout the stuff that donald trump already knows, as the target of the investigation. so for example, trump knows that the archives and the fbi have been trying to get these documents from him for over a year. trump knows that he's refused and thumbed his nose at the fbi, calling them my documents and refusing to return them. and trump also noticed the classified markings on some of the documents and how important they are to our national security. so all of that information can be revealed. which means this entire litigation that trump's lawyers have filed is an incredibly high risk, low reward situation for

donald trump. he wrongly bet that the justice department would clamp down and not reveal anything. but it sounds like the justice department is going to be willing, because of the judge's order, to release something. and you know, people have blamed it as donald trump's lawyers are terrible. but the issue is not as much the lawyers, it is the client. >> so, neal, i'll ask you to utilize your imagination and the sense of humor. the redacted affidavit, when you look at it, what would you look for if you were defending donald trump? >> you know, i think i'm a pretty good lawyer. i couldn't defend him. this is as bad as it gets. before i was in the solicitor general i was the national security adviser of the justice department where we clamped down on anyone having even just a secret document, the lowest level of classification or confidential documents, the idea that would you walk around, walk

home, keeping a golf club, our nation's most sensitive documents, special access programs is unfathomable to me. so i don't know that he has a defense besides attacking the prosecutors and all of the games he's playing on social media. i doan see a legal defense yet and i think the most important thing is that it has been two weeks since the search, donald trump hasn't offered a single explanation for what he's doing with these documents. he's -- they've had all sorts of different shifting explanations it is a standing order to de classify or this or that. but at the end of the day, you know, why does he have these documents any way? even if he did de classify them. and these statutes don't just criminalize classified information. they cover national security information. so if i'm trump's lawyer, what i think i'm looking for is trying to figure out who these witnesses are and if i could intimidate them in some way

which is the donald trump playbook. >> ken, the donald trump playbook. it is going to be partially exposed today. but to neal's point, part of the problem with defending him is lack of payment. because he doesn't pay anybody. so the lawyers that he has employed thus far, what they've looked at, what they've said, how convoluted is this in order to follow it from your point of view as a reporter? >> it is very strange, mike. i mean, he's got a couple of experienced federal practitioner, former federal prosecutors at the head of the legal team and then several lawyers who have never seen their way around a criminal case. so the fact that this, when they filed this lawsuit in florida, before this trump appointed florida district judge, the fact that she had to essentially instruct them in a note in the docket to essentially refile because they didn't do some basic things that she felt was necessary, really said a lot about the lawyers here. or as neal said, about the fact

that the lawyers are the mercy of their client. but in terms of the potential legal defense, i think there is -- we're seeing now some reporting about what they're thinking in terms of first of all, they're arguing that all of the documents were declassified which is a nonstarter. but then there is the question of the criminal intent. did donald trump know they weren't being classified buzz he was told that they were, like people like kash patel. and then you have some argument from judicial watch there is some case law that presidential records, records in the custody of a president after he leaves office, there is a debate about whether they are presidential records. so these are the thin reads that their standing on. but in the face of that, you have the national archives and all of their lawyers an then the justice department and all of their lawyers and the fbi, bess evening these trump officials saying not only are these government records, they're

highly classified including special access programs which means only a small number of people in the government could see them because this information could get people killed. so they're on notice that they have material that was that dangerous and i think that makes -- that complicates any defense that well we -- we were entitled to this stuff. >> neal, is the intent, i didn't know i was doing something wrong argument, is that compelling in a courtroom in this case? not only because there was so much, the volume was so large but was taken from the wouse, which you can not do under the laws that we've laid out for the last two and a half weeks but also because of the obstruction that followed, like the minute the national archives said maybe that is a mistake and give it back. they didn't. it took a search warrant to get the rest of the documents. >> so i have the privilege of teaching criminal law at georgetown and a crime requires an act, a bad criminal act and

mens rea. and the evidence that has already emerged establishing both of these elements and it looks like beyond a reasonable doubt. so on willfulness, there is now testimony that pat cipollone, the president's top lawyer and pat philbin, the top deputy lawyer, told trump after inauguration, hey, you have to return these documents. and these are classified documents, they're not yours. and trump refused. so, he doesn't have the argument available to him, oh, i was packing in a hurry. i didn't know that stuff was there. the minute i knew it was there, i turned it back. the correspondence from the national archives shows they've been trying for months and months to get the documents back that the former president trump was warned about it and he just thumbed his nose at them. so this is, you know, to my knowledge, you know, a very easy

criminal case. it is one that if it were any other individual, if it we more bringing these documents back, i would be in jail for a long period of time and i don't know what defense trump has at the end except i'm the former president, i could do whatever i want and that is certainly not the way the law works. i don't think we want joe biden or anyone else when they finish serving as president to be able to take our nations secrets with sources and methods, possibly the names of ow spies in the field and have them in their golf club. that can't possibly be the law. >> neal, just quickly based on the publicly available information we have, does the justice department have what it needs for an indictment of the former president. >> yes. everything i seen suggested absolutely yes. >> we will see. and we should get more information in just a few minutes when this is made public, the affidavit. ken dilanian and neal katyal,

thank you both as always. we appreciate it. coming up next, wall street bracing for a major speech today from fed chair jerome powell about the next steps to combat inflation. we'll look into what he might say and its impact on the economy. plus, california takes a major step toward combatting climate change with a decision that will impact which cars people can buy. we'll explain. and major flooding continues to ravage the south. following another round of powerful storms. but up next, president biden makes his return to the campaign trail. blasting what he calls the maga philosophy as, quote, semi-fascism. we'll show you his comments when we come right back.

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americans voted to save our democracy. that is why donald trump isn't just a former president, he is a defeated former president. >> americans will have to choose, you must choose. will we be a country, that move ever moves forward or backward. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger and violence and hate and division. but we've chosen a different path. forward. the future. unity, and hope and optimism. these guys never stop. and we're never going to stop either. look, my friends, we offer a starkly different version and vision of this country. a vision of a better america. that is within our reach. that is within our hands if we just vote.

>> president biden speaking at a campaign rally in the d.c. suburbs of rockville, maryland. he also attended a fundraiser where he told donors, quote, what we're seeing now is the beginning or the death nell of an extreme maga philosophy. it is not just trump, it is the entire philosophy. it is like semi-fascism, end quote. joining us now, for "the washington post," matt visor. good morning. you're reporting this morning on the president's speech yesterday. writing he raised concerns about american democracy and the republicans he viewed saz a threat. the rhetoric was an escalation for biden an an indication that he views the threat as greater than just trump and an ideology. the president turned toward the midterm elections and attempts not only to tout his own record, but to create a sharper contrast with the opposing party. so, matt, of course the issues

of the economy and immigration and abortion and guns will all be central to the midterm elections. but hanging over it all, as the president said yesterday, is the idea that the foundational concepts of democracy in some ways are on the battol. if you vote for certain people, elections may be overturned. >> that is right, willie. i mean, he really kind of had a transition last night to much more forcefully attacking trump and the republican ideology. in a way that frankly he's often avoided as president. in the clip that you just played, he even named donald trump. something that he often referred to him as the former guy. so he's calling trump by name. and calling it semi-fascism. it is really a rise in the rhetoric for biden and creating a more contrast ahead of the midterm elections. so, he also touted a lot of what he views as hi accomplishments. but really the shift last night

to me seemed to be a willingness to take trump head on. some democrats have wanted him to do more to sort of call for defending democracy, defending voting rights and biden started to do that with much more vigor in this address last night. >> the president last night as we saw there was shaking hands with wes moore, the nominee for the next governor for the state of maryland. he wanted joe biden on stage with him and other democracies do not. what is your sense that the role this president will play in the midterm elections as he travels the country? >> it will be interested. i surveyed more than 60 campaigns over the course of last week and very few candidates said they wanted joe biden to come be with them in their states or their districts in competitive races. so, you know, he could do to deep blue areas of maryland right outside of the d.c. and appear with the gubernatorial candidate, next week he's heading to pennsylvania.

it is unclear if john fetterman who is in a tight race will join him. so i don't expect candidates to appear alongside biden. they do want him to raise money. as he did last night. a million dollars brought in in a fundraiser in bethesda where biden spoke. they want him to frame the election to go after trump from a national perspective as he did last night. but they are not necessarily eager at this moment to have those photos of the president standing next to them on stage because biden's -- they want to see more from biden in terms of approval ratings which are ticking up in some polls but not enough for the candidates in very tight races to want him to come and then see him as an asset in their campaigns. >> so matt, do you get a sense from your reporting and from living part-time in the west wing of the white house, covering this president, do you get the sense that all of of the

issues in the last few minutes, they were all on the table, americans live with them each and every day, inflation and gas prices and things like that, but do you get the sense that the president himself thinks that perhaps the biggest emerging issue in his mind as he heads into the midterm elections is the threat posed to our democracy by what has happened in the past, the election deniers, the trump philosophy that everything is fixed and rigged, things like that? >> unquestionably they view that as a major threat and biden himself does. i think the question for them often times is how much and how forcefully to talk about that. because they want to be proactive oftentimes rather than reactive. and reactive to a different force. he wants to sell his agenda and that is complicated with all of the developments from donald trump and the investigations, and they don't want donald trump to set the agenda, but you're seeing a little bit last night

which was interesting, him talk more about the threat to democracy. he did that kind of toward the tail end of the speech after talking about a lot of other things on his genda. so it wasn't the main focus. but it was one of the more interesting aspects of it. and it indicates, i think, that he'll be more vocal about things that they've been sort of more quietly, you know, worried about. worried about the threats to democracy and voting rights and wanting to do something about those things and now year seeing him i think talk from a public stage with all of the cameras around him, talk about trump and talk about those threats and talk about trying to motivate voters to refute trump and the republican ideology right now. >> it will be interesting to see how much more of the president we see out on the campaign trail heading into the fall. white house reporter for "the washington post," matt visor. thank you so much for being here. in about half an hour, jerome

powell will speak in wyoming about the next steps to combat inflation. investors are very interested in what he might say and we'll check in with cnbc. and plus a live report from california where that state just announced a ban on sales of gas-powered cars beginning in 2035. we'll find out how state officials plan on pulling that off. and coming up, this sunday on sunday today over on nbc, my guest is one of the biggest stars on the planet, ed sheeran. he's out on tour in europe playing music from the latest album. talking about music and busking on the streets of london and now selling out stadiums around the world. ed sheeran this weekend on nbc sunday today. and "morning joe" is coming right back.

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not going to happen. >> categorical no. >> i said sub zero. i'm doing it in foreign languages. i will say it with a hat on an a on and i'll say it in texas and if florida. i don't know how many times you could say it. >> i don't know that there has been a two-year period in modern american history that has been more effective than the last two years with the biden administration across the spectrum. >> in terms of policy. >> it is a master class. a master class. >> and yet americans don't seem to know it. >> but they'll feel it. they'll experience it. and they'll be the beneficiaries of it. >> but they might not vote that way. >> doesn't matter, at the end of the day, you'll be judged for the things you did, not the things you said. joe biden could sleep better than any modern president. with what he's accomplished in the last two years. >> that is california governor gavin newsom speaking with abc news and in a new interview about president biden's agenda and 2024.

newsom meanwhile is pushing forward on his plan to combat climate change by phasing out gas-powered vehicles in california. yesterday regulators in the state approved the plan which requires all new vehicles to run on electricity or hydrogen by the year 2035. let's bring in nbc news correspondent steve patterson in california. steve, good morning. how is this going to work? >> reporter: yeah, willie, i think you have to say first of all, make no mistake, california regulators and the newsom administration want people to view this as the beginning of the end of the gas-powered car, if governor newsom were here he might tell me my hypothetical children or grandchildren should see the gas powered car the way i would see a rotary telephone or even a land line telephone. so it has to work sort of in phases. they're setting goalposts as the years move toward 2035. so they want 35% of cars to have

zero perrent of emissions and 100% by 2035. about 40% of all greenhouse gases it the state of cal come from vehicle exhaust. regulators say that with these new rules in place, by 2040 they should half that in cars that produce emissions in the state. that is about 395 metric tons of greenhouse gases, about 915 million barrels of oil. so a huge footprint reduced. the goal is to get away from oil. coy tell you what it doesn't cover, are cars that are already on the road. so they're not necessarily abolishing gas-powered cars. it is not going to cover cars bought out of state. it is not going to cover the used car market. but what it does cover is a huge footprint, other states should follow suit because california sets its own air quality standards. >> that means it sets precedent. so a dozen other states likely to follow suit.

there are a number of challenges. the supply chain and the minerals to make these and there is only 80,000 charging stations in the state. we need something like over a million by 2030 to account for this. and then the power grid here. still largely reliant on fossil fuels. what happens when you suddenly start plugging millions of electric vehicles into that system and then finally the cost of a lot of the evs are a whole lot more than gas-powered cars. you need people to buy into this. but of course challenges but i think the goals set by the governor and set by regulators seems a positive change. willie. >> laying down a marker for the future. steve patterson in burbank, california. thank you so much. let's bring in cnbc frank holland. the federal reserve chair jerome powell set to speak at the top of the hour in jackson hole, what are we expecting?

>> good morning to you. as you mentioned, we're 30 minutes from jay powell's speech at the central bank symposium in jackson hole, wyoming and investors are looking for any clues for the rest of the year including size and number of potential rate hikes and whether the plan to slow down inflation has changed in any way. the feds goal is it 2% inflation and last read at over 8%. this morning we got a fresh read the pcie at 6%. more aggressive rate hikes. the market is moving flat right now. the s&p flat, the dow up very slightly after the opening bell. just a short time ago, futures were under pressure on a lot of rate hike and concession returns and august is just a slow month on wall street. lower volumes and many traders on vacation. the dow and the s&p 500 an the nasdaq heading for a second straight week of losses despite finishing in positive territory yesterday but the nasdaq and the s&p are double-digits higher than the june lows.

so in addition to the comments, just above the 3% mark this morning that put pressure on stocks in the back. big tech which has been a catalyst for gains during this most recent rally. >> a lot of other news out there. the saga between twitter and elon musk continues. twitter to hand over more information related to bot and fake accounts on its platform. it is a small win for the tesla founder but stopped short of granting his full request for data on the social media network entire user base. lawyers for elon musk are seeking documentation on how twitter calculated legitimate users for advertising purposes. after musk's efforts to back out of a deal to take twitter private. trial is set for october 17th. also this week, the legal fight took an interesting turn when a whistleblower accused executives of making misrepresentations

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bank. it took a lot. so we wanted to know why. and what john and i did together was really stepping into his shoes. >> yeah, and abbi, we should say he never had a bomb. it was an idle threat. and the s.w.a.t. team went in and they didn't know it was a idle threat and they shot and killed him. so why was he there if not to rob the bank. >> this is a plan who wanted to be heard. like my dad, he was a veteran. and he had a really hard time acclimating back into civilian life. and he was there to get his disability payment. >> abbi, this is a story about an actual human being. this is a story about a marine corp veteran who they extracted $892 from his disability check and that is why he was in the

bank. to make it -- people aware of what happens to veterans. and he certainly did that. but, my question to you, given the state of the movie industry today, this is not a remake. this is a story again of an actual human being. of what happened to him. this is not a d.c. comic film with characters and monsters and things like that. talk if you could about the degree of difficulty that you had or maybe you didn't in bringing this story about a citizen of the united states of america to the screen. how much did it cost, how much trouble did you go through in terms of getting it to the big screen. because this is a tough thing to do this day and age in the movie business. how did you do it? >> it's massively difficult to get this film made. i had a lot of superheroes that

helped me make this happen. john boyega, straight up, this man used his voice to make sure that this film was made. brian brown's story and said it matters that this story is told. michael k. williams, the late and great michael k. williams, he read the script and had an immediate personal connection to this story. and said how could i use my voice to make sure that brian's is heard. i had an incredible finance ear that said we want this story to be told. but i have to tell you, that line was not long. there was one financier who stood up and said we want this story to be heard. >> well we're so glad they did, abbi. brian was looking for his $892 check from the v.a. to be reinstated. he said he would be out on the streets without it. and in that bank that day where he died, he wanted to bring attention to issues surrounding veterans, of homelessness and

mental health and the flaws at the v.a. as you saw them. as you dove into the story, what did you learn about the plight of our military veterans and what should our audience know? >> well, like brian, i stood in those lines. my dad is a navy veteran and those lines are very long. and i learned that through brian's story, i had a lot more empathy for what it means to acclimate back to civilian life. even though i lived through that with my dad. i had seen him go from being an athlete to being in a wheelchair. and i learned that the thing that breaks through, the thing that really matters is how we help one another. because systems are broken. and the way to repair them is by individual responsibility, see the person who is right in front of you. make a change where you are. and that is why we're here. >> it is a powerful real life story. incredibly well acted as you saw

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good morning. 10:00 a.m. ooerns, 7: 00 pacific. the redacted affidavit will be unsealed. we'll break down what to expect. this hour jerome powell is delivering a speech on the economy amid a report that shows inflation may be easing. when it means for you and the high prices we've been seeing. president biden back in campaign mode using stark language calling the maga fa -- philosophy semi fascism. california making big moves to