other soldiers who helped to liberate the town. that bracelet is also the reason for chelsea's trip with her mom and son. a mission to thank the french for save guarding her family's legacy and to receive not just a relic, but they will also go home with an invaluable piece of their great uncle's identity. >> i think it is a connection to the past and knowing that my mother's uncle and my great uncle and my grandmother's brother had such an impact on this town. >> and a fuller picture of the selfless act that cost him his life and saved so many others. >> you come here and you see that they're so grateful and i want to capture as much of that as i can and bottle it up and take it home and share it with as many people as i can. >> reporter: we already have an idea of what the next chapter of the story is. you remember the bracelet with the etching on the back that said forever nancy, we don't

know who nancy is. we believe this is his fiance but chelsea decided her next mission is to figure out who nancy was and maybe find her family too. >> oh, aaron gilchrist, thank you. a beautiful, beautiful story. thank you so much. it is exactly the top of the hour. the fourth hour of "morning joe." 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we begin this hour from new reaction of a unsealing of a redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former donald trump's mar-a-lago home. it is also a club. the 36-page affidavit reed details of the federal government's efforts to recover classified documents including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegally taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the

contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. 15. and identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential. and 92 were marked secret. according to the affidavit, agents saw markings denoting various control systems designed to protect various types of sensitive information. they included markings that designate intelligence gathered by quote, clandestine human sources such as a report by a cia officer or someone who works for the defense intelligence agency. as for the redactions, they were found in the section providing

probable cause for the search. which is about 20 pages. one, almost completely blacked out section, is titled there is probable cause to believe that documents containing classified national defense information and presidential records remain at the premises. a federal judge has indicated she will appoint a special master to review the materials seized from mar-a-lago by federal agents. u.s. district judge eileen cannon, who was appointed by trump in 2020, issued a two-page order on saturday despite not yet hearing arguments from the justice department. judge gave federal officials until tomorrow to provide the court with a more detailed list of items the fbi had removed from the florida estate. national intelligence director

avril haines wrote in a letter to lawmakers on write, haines said her office will, quote, lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. house oversight committee chair carolyn maloney and chair adam schiff had asked for a security damage assessment in the days following the fbi search. meanwhile, president biden mocked donald trump's claim that trump had declassified all of the documents he brought with him to his mar-a-lago home after leaving the presidency. >> trump said he de classified all of the document. could you have declassified them all. >> i just want to know how you could declassify everything in the world. i can do everything. come on. >> the president later gave a more nuanced response saying the doj is handling it.

>> we'll let the justice department determine that. we'll see what happens. >> the correct answer, we'll see what happens. let's bring in pulitzer prize winning journalist, charlie savage. his latest reporting is titled "possibility of obstruction looms over trump after thwarted efforts to recover documents" and with us katie benner, her latest piece is entitled document inquiry poses federal judgment and with us neal katyal and jonathan lemire back with us as well. charlie, let me start with you. i found your article fascinating yesterday. where we're all talking about 184 unique documents with classified markings on them.

25 top secret documents, et cetera, et cetera. but you talked to legal analysts who suggested that the obstruction part of this investigation may be the most legally damning for the former president. tell us why. >> or at least as perilous as this is. it is right that we've been mainly talking about the spectacle of finding these documents marked top secret and the questionable claim by trump that he somehow declassified anything that he randomly took out of the oval office. but looming over this whole problem he's entailing is that a totally different legal issue which is the potential charge of obstruction also listed in the search warrant was a provision of law that was passed as part of the sarbane's oxley act after the enron scandal which makes it a crime to knowingly conceal

documents to obstruct a government effort which could be an investigation like the justice department's attempt to get the documents back or an official agency effort like the national archives to get all of the publicly owned documents back that should not have been taken to mar-a-lago, whether they were classified or not. so there is efforts that were continually thwarted and archives were asking for it and weren't given it and you could take those 15 boxes but weren't given anything and there was a subpoena and which allowed them to turn over the documents. they turned over documents and they still don't turn over everything which leads to this search warrant. so there is a lot of evidence there was concealment of documents that thwarted ongoing efforts by agencies to do the work. the one piece missing from the evidence, and we dough no what

is on the pages after pages of redactions, is to what extent did trump himself know that he still was holding on to documents that the government was trying to get back. and that is where the revelation in the affidavit that they were talking to multiple witnesses who had relevant information about what was at mar-a-lago becomes important. >> and katie, your latest reporting tracks with that. justice officials haggled with trump month after month, after month trying to get the documents back did they finally just give up, is that why they went ahead and moved with the search warrant? >> yeah. based on our reporting it is clear that the justice department feet that it was pushed into this situation where they had to obtain a search warrant in order to get more materials from mr. trump and his legal team. you know, we also know from our reporting that this is not -- this case is nowhere near concluding in the government's legal filings. they described it as an ongoing matter and people who we have spoken to who have been briefed on the investigation and have knowledge of it say that the

career people working on this investigation inside of the national security division has not yet made any decision or come to any conclusion, keep in mind they need to do this first, before making a recommendation up through the deputy attorney general's office and then to the attorney general's office saying whether they believe mr. trump should be charged with a crime. >> and so, neal, it is fascinating, isn't it, that again they continue to claim that all of the documents were declassified. as you've pointed out, the lawyers haven't put that into any pleadings. and i'm just curious, what do you think about the latest developments, have you heard any concern about the special master or is -- does that seem like a logical step? >> well to begin with where charlie and katie did because they are phenomenal lawyers better than us at analyzing this. so there is two buckets of potential crimes.

one is the obstruction charges that you were talking about with chargy a moment ago. the other is the national security information that was retained some of it classified and some it doesn't need to be classified under the statutes. and there the released affidavit is quite damning. subjecting how much material was found at mar-a-lago. and i think the most important thing at this stage in the investigation and katie is absolutely right, the department is going to think through this all carefully, hasn't jumped to any conclusions but we're three week news the search at this point, and president trump has still never explained once what in the world was he doing with all of these highly classified and sensitive documents. and that is what in my mind makes it very hard to avoid a criminal indictment at this point if you're donald trump. i mean, he stole those indictments, he lied about it, and he then hid the documents and kept them hidden and now he's thumbing his nose at the justice department and fbi and sending henchman like lindy

graham out to threaten the public a little bit with violence and the like. >> right. >> it is hard for the justice department to look the other way. i don't think the special master alone is going to do anything for trump. that is a very minor procedural thing. about someone who is going to look through the material to see if there is anything governed by executive privilege. even if there was something there, that would just be material returned to the archives not to donald trump and the supreme court has been very clear that it is the current holder of the executive privilege that is president biden that decides this, not the former president. so i don't think that is going anywhere for him. >> so neal, let's underline something that you said and expand on it a little bit. not only is donald trump never once explained to the american people why he took all of these documents, why he took these classified documents, these top secret documents out of the white house, none of his defenders on television do.

lindsey graham doesn't. he doesn't say that it is a proper thing to do. we saw roy blunt yesterday saying that trump shouldn't have done it. i mean, all we have -- >> he doesn't deny he took them. >> well of course. none of them deny that he took them because we know he took them. but nobody is explaining why. the "wall street journal" editorial page writes an op-ed, an editorial saying is that it? never once addressing why there is any legitimate reason for him to take the documents. no now we're gotten into the stage where lindsay is not talking about that, instead he's saying if you prosecute him like any other official, there will be riots in the streets and republicans and donald trump supporters will riot in the streets. >> yeah, exactly. i mean, donald trump and lindsey graham is not exactly quiet folks. so, the silence here is incredibly, incredibly damning. and it is because you can't really come up with an

explanation that makes any sense, i'm sure. you know, everyone who has handled these highly sensitive documents as i have in two different times in the government, it would be nice to be able to bring them home and frankly to have them as mementos afterwards. there is some pretty cool stuff we did. but of course not. you're told that every day. >> hey, look what i did on the manhattan project. exactly. >> yeah. >> look, he doesn't deny that he took them. which is the biggest issue. i mean, jonathan lemire, i'll toss it to you. but again, let's just stay right where we are in realtime and not get ahead of the story. the former president of the united states took documents with him to his public club in palm beach, 15 boxes at least with 184 that had rankings that were secret on up. he doesn't deny he took them. in fact, there is confirmation several times over that he took them and that there was some

push-pull between him and the national archives about how to get them back and he wouldn't return them. this is stealing at the very least. but this former president with all of the questions that swirled around him during his presidency and in terms of what he does to people and what his intentions might have been, it raised a of questions. but what we know right now is he took documents that were not hit, that had classified rankings. that is a problem. we could stay right there with it until we wait to hear more. and the president, jonathan lemire, is not denying this. former president. >> no. and we also know that he is fond of, the kim jong-un letters, he was known to that off to visitors to the oval office including reporters that were there to interview him. so he certainly didn't keep those close to the vest. and we should note, we spent a lot of time including now talking about lindsey graham's

comments about there could be riots from donald trump were arrested. those comments just amplified by donald trump who amplified that clip on his truth social site just a few minutes ago. katie, there have been a sense at least three weeks ago, where it's hard to believe it is only been three weeks since the search at mar-a-lago since it feels like we've been living with this for a while. there might have content to retrieve the documents. saying, look, you shouldn't have these and this is bad and we're going to take them back and that may be enough. and i understand that is still a possibility. but the people that you talk to, what is their assessment that the federal government will essentially say, like, okay, good enough, we'll move on or do they do think, look, we're going to have to bring some sort of charge here? >> i think their assessment is yes, they thought this would be a document pretreefl project, and where they are not sure they

have the whole truth and they look at somebody on mr. trump's team has tried to obstruct the investigation or obstruct nara. they're going to start looking at the evident gathered by the fbi and run through the process where they compare it to all of the cases they could find under the three statutes they're looking at to see if the evident they have is good enough and strong enough to actually uphold those charges and see what happened historically. so for example, we say this in the case of hillary clinton improper handling of classified information, leaders in the national security division had their prosecutors go through and do a deep dive into history so see where gross negligence, that part of the statutes had ever been charged an the only one compelling case they could find, they did not see any real matches between what hillary clinton had done and what this fbi agent had done. so they did not think that the evidence they had, while compelling to some of the prosecutors, would hold up under scrutiny in a court of law.

they're going to run through that process with the evident they find in the case involving mr. trump to see whether or not charges should be brought and it is going to be, as you could imagine, an extremely rigorous process. there will be a lot of debate. >> so charlie, we've had three days now to pour over this affidavit and to be clear, it is heavily redacted so there is a limit. but during your drawing of the wealth of experience covering these and people you talk to, what are some other takeaways, perhaps some things those of us laymen would not necessarily immediately grasp what the document and why would that be so damaging to the former president. >> one part of it is that the -- just looking at what the inventory of what they got in that initial retrieval back in january of 15 boxes of documents, the classification markings on those documents were not just top secret generically. you hinted at this a bit at the start of this segment.

there were even higher sensitive markings on these documents they got if the first instance. things that were that they called sensitive compartment and information and that even people with top-secret clearance are not allow to see unless they have a need to know. things that would reveal surveillance technology capabilities, the nsa used to eavesdrop on foreigners abroad, the very, very sensitive and very expensive very hard to do technology that sort of thing that we got a glimpse of with the edward snowden disclosures a decade ago but now 2022 with technology and advancements are very different. you also hinted at and it is correct, information gathered from confidential human sources. this is, i think the intro said this could be a report by someone at defense intelligence agency. that is not quite -- this could be a report that is based on someone abroad, a spy, or just someone who is confidentally talking to us, some foreign

government official or someone whose identity is being kept secret because if it was revealed that person would be killed. so these are extremely sensitive stuff. and that is just what was gathered in january. we don't know what he was still holding on that he only turned over in response to the subpoena in may and we do not know what he was still holding on to and did not turn over in response to the subpoena in may that they were able to gather then with this search warrant. so, this is very sensitive materials beyond just classified generically. >> a lot of questions are being asked why did this go in. why did they have to go in and you do get a sense that there were attempts to get these documents back, multiple attempts. >> yeah. >> and therefore perhaps that decision, we will see. "new york times" reporter charlie savage and katie benner, thank you both very much for being on this morning. and there is also still the investigation into the january 6

attack on the capitol. we learned yesterday that the house select committee will dig into the financing behind the insurrection and present those findings in future public hearings or in its final report. speaking to "meet the press," adam kinzinger said looking into the money behind the attack is a crucial factor. >> i think one of the more intriguing things is some of the financing, right, some of the fundraising, the fact that, you know, a vast majority of this money was raised and under quote/unquote stop the steal with no intention of doing anything to stop a steal. it was all about just raising money. >> it is a big grift. i mean, it is -- jim and tammy faye baker coming to politics. it is all about the money. it is always been about the money with donald trump. raise all of that money, claim to his legal defense and working

class, middle class americans, send him to the money because they believe the lie that he had been feeding them for over a year and did not use it for legal defense. so neal, i'm curious, where we just brought up january 6, we've been talking about, of course, possible obstruction charges, talking about obviously the classified documents. georgia seems to me is a real problem for the president as well. i'm curious, there is so much swirling around the president legally, also the concern that he can't find a good criminal defense attorney to take him on, to take his cases on, things are legally perilous, that would seem to be an understatement. i'm curious your assessment of the situation for the former president and where perhaps his greatest legal risks lie? >> yeah, for us lawyers, donald

trump is an a deal client because he has so much legal trouble but the trouble is he doesn't pay any of his bills so he's not an ideal client. but he's facing a war. he has the classified material and obstruction investigation into florida. he has the january 6 causing a coup investigation into d.c. he has the georgia investigation about election fraud going on and that is a criminal investigation and rudy giuliani and others have been subpoenaed there. and then he has a new york criminal investigation about inflating his criminal assets. something as to which his long-term chief financial officer allen weisselberg just pled guilty on. so you have all of those. would you quibble with the idea that for trump it is all about the money. that is true for trump and in so far as it goes. but you think for us as americans, it is all about the law breaking, particularly when

you think about january 6 which, while it has a financial component as adam kinzinger said, is more important for the dollars and sense, but for the idea that a president sitting in office will try and do these things that ultimately culminated in violence and death on the american capitol. that, to mean, cries out for the most serious of investigations not just by the january 6 committee but also be investigators. and i know there is this meme, donald trump can't get good lawyers an that is what is going on. and it is true, i don't think he could get great lawyers. but the problem is not the lawyers. the problem is the client. this is a guy who fundamentally doesn't color within the lines. he hasn't his entire life. and we are now watching it play out in realtime across these four different fronts. >> msnbc legal analyst neal katyal, thank you very much.

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>> no, it is 28 past the hour. >> and we may never know. what san diego means. seattle, beautiful seattle. how gorgeous. >> okay. welcome back to "morning joe." 28 past the hour. >> the ron burgundy of msnbc back with you. so i'm looking through this wide world of news thing, mark halpern's newsletter, there are unsolved mysteries. taylor swift's album is coming out october 21st, mystery. is she going to be pop or country. ron desantis, i didn't know this, if you have any answers let me know, desantis pulled out a $25,000 plate over unforeseen tragedy. we hope everything is all right there. and then there is this. and maybe you could help me out. this is why i'm coming to you, because why are you talking to

me and they asked tom brady where you have been. on an 11-day absence from training camp. tom brady's response, i'm 45 years old, man. there is a lot of blank going on. what does that mean? there is a lot going on. is brady okay or just getting the kids back in school? do you have any background on the tom brady mystery. >> i'm "morning joe" resident's tom brady correspondent. so it is a little mysterious. did he take a 11-day absence from training camp. the rumors that percolated around the internet to where his camp had to be issue a denial that he was filming the masked singer. that he was a contestant. he said that is not the case. but that is the most popular rumor. but he had a family -- this is a weird off-season for tom brady. that he did briefly retire and then came back and the sense of it is that he had made some sort

of family commitment during that retirement that he wanted to keep even though he had returned. and look, the guy is 45 years old. he knows more about football than anyone else. he could afford to miss ten days of training camp. although did it raise some eyebrows. and certainly i will say that his response, though, i'm 45 years old and i have a lot of bleep to do, i'm going to start using that. it is any out of office message on email. that is how i'm going to respond to text messages. >> exactly. and final question here, unsolved sports mysteries. connected to boston, i understand that the boston red sox won a world series in 2018 and i'm watching them, this season i can't believe that is true. somebody told me they won 108 games back in 2018. is that not possible. you could dismantle a team that good in a short period of time. >> the team that wur watching bears no resemblance to that

team without the exception of devers and bogart around. they are out of the playoff picture at this point. there is real questions about whether they're keep their stars going forward and what is so painful is not just from a to z they have taken the team apart and mookie betts has over 30 home runs this year and he's so fun and such a good guy, he's a face of baseball. he's the kind of guy that you make a red sox for life. they could afford it. we all know that. they choose not to and i worry it is something they'll pay the price for years to come. >> turning back to politics. a superpac aligned with mitch mcconnell is canceling nearly $10 million worth of ad buys in

both arizona and alaska. the move is raising questions about the party's confidence in blake masters. who was hoping to unseat arizona's democratic senator mark kelly in november. according to politico, the pac's strategic shift away from arizona is due in part to a massive $28 million commitment to ohio senate race where republican j.d. vance is facing a strong challenge from congressman tim ryan. the president of the superpac tells politico, we're leaving the door wide open in arizona but we want to move additional resources to other offensive opportunities that have become increasingly competitive. meanwhile, polling continues to show president biden's approval rating ticking up. the latest cbs news poll has him at 45 percent, up 3 points since last month. driven in part by the issues that registered voters in the polls say are most important to

them. the economy and inflation. the president's ratings on both of those issues are now up five points since last month. he's up six points when it comes to his handling of gas prices. 55% of voters approved of the recently passed inflation reduction act and while 54% agree with his decision on student debt relief. republicans lead the generic house ballot by two points but there has been some movement. democrats have increased their lead among college educated white women by seven points since july. currently ahead by 13 points. most were undecided voters who have been motivated by the issue of abortion. 42% of the voters say that the decision to overturn roe v. wade will impact their vote in november. of that group, 69% say it is pushed them toward the democrats. let's bring in correspondent

kelly o'donnell at the white house. kelly, is the white house saying anything about its strategy headed into the midterms? >> reporter: well good to be with you, mika. and if you hear noise, that is fitting with the situation because there is always political noise and trying to cut through that for the white house has been a challenge. and these numbers show that the sort of slow, steady wind in their face approach that the biden white house has been dealing with is for this moment producing some dividends. so they are looking at this as trying to create a stark choice for voters come midterm election time. and to use some of the legislative wins that the president has racked up, some of those were bipartisan, some like thein nation reduction act, democrats only. and then bigger issues that have taken place. roe v. wade being overturned, how people have responded to that with what happened in kansas, where voters showed up and made a big statement about wanting access to abortion in

that state. so, they are looking at the head winds changing. and while they know very clearly when you control the white house and both chambers of congress in a president's first midterm year, historically it is a tough go. they also see a potential to hang on to the senate and to have a narrow, but a narrow path, a doable path to try to hang on to the house. that may be a long shot. but it is a brighter picture than they would have even acknowledged just weeks ago. so you're seeing as you laid out the ways and the locations, the topic where's president biden's leadership is getting some more credit for what is going on. he got a lot of the drag when gas prices is one example were creeping higher and higher. and so they want to try to set this up. now you see a lot of democratic voters who want the president to come out in a hard swinging red meat sort of fashion. we saw a little bit of that the other night in the first midterm campaign address in maryland and he was trying to set that stark

contrast. and we'll see the president traveling more and more. one big question will be will candidates on the ballot want him to appear with them and will it be the case of the president who has always got the biggest mega phone in the political space, will he be able to push his own agenda and democrats more broadly here with a little bit of good news behind his back. mika. >> nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. pitch perfect even with that noise. thank you so much, really appreciate it. so one of this morning's must-read opinion pages is from charles blow. whose latest for "the new york times" is entitled "biden becomes a boon for democrats" and in it he writes, quote, with a string of successes, president biden is building momentum and shaking off narratives offin effectiveness and also trump has resurfaced as a foil. the stench around him grows stronger as investigations

intensify and damning revelations continue to emerge. they may not alter the feet of his followers, but they remind the rest of us of the horror we escaped by ejecting him from office and how desperately we don't want to return to it. whether other democrats want biden's help or not, i believe that they are going to need it. running away from the leader of your party is never a good idea. it is a particularly terrible idea when that leader is on a hot streak. and joe, i mean, you cannot argue that joe biden is on a hot streak. you watch certain networks and all you see is on a loop him falling off his bike or stuttering or whatever, that he admits to having. but he's on a hot streak. he's passing landmark legislation. he stands for the rights of women, which have been taken away after 50 years. this is a president who is doing well despite everybody trying

to -- oh, wait, what does it sound like. it sounds like joe biden every step of the way. he always gets underestimated and then he comes out actually on top. >> well, i mean, your right. there are a lot of people on the trump right who will say joe biden falls off a bike. >> again and again. or gets an ice cream cone or taking a vacation. >> but they don't talk about the fact that the guy they love, the former president, tried to lead a fascist coup against the united states government to stop the peaceful transfer of power. they don't -- they'll say oh, joe biden stutters. well, yeah, he's been doing that -- >> he's got a stutter. >> -- his entire life. so they want to talk about that. they don't want to talk about the fact that he's passed this inflation reduction act, that is extremely popular. and a series of other things that he's led on ukraine,

exceptionally well in a way thats had had bipartisan support. a bipartisan infrastructure bill. the most comprehensive bipartisan gun reform safety legislation in 20 years. the most comprehensive expansion of v.a. benefits in 20 years and they don't want to talk about the fact that there he wrote, former president, actually absconded with boxes full of government documents, secret documents, classified documents, top secret documents. >> what was he doing with them. >> they can't even explain it. they can't even explain it. meanwhile, republican legislators are chasing 10-year-old girls out of states that had been raped. making them go to other states because they say that their parents and the 10-year-old girl and their pastor and health care professionals have absolutely no

say in what happens to that 10-year-old raped girl. again, we do keep bringing it up. i think it is important to say, you've got a texas attorney general who is fighting hard, pushing back on joe biden trying to protect women who are on the operating table, moms on the operating table whose veries are at risk. so texas republicans are actually trying to stop joe biden from protecting women from dying on operating tables in the state of texas. look it up. ken paxton, look it up. they fought that. you have somebody running in the state of michigan, the republican gubernatorial candidate, the state of michigan, who actually said, not making it up, she said it, you could hear the quote, she said it on a podcast, that a 14-year-old girl getting raped by her uncle is a perfect example of why she doesn't want

14-year-old girls, victims of rape or incest to be able to make decisions about what to do after that unspeakable tragedy takes place. on what to do if there is going to be a forced pregnancy, a forced birth that is sanctioned by the state. or whether they could talk to their parents, they could talk to their preacher, they could talk to their health care provider, they could talk to their mental health provider, and you just go down the list, one after another, 18-year-old whackos going out and buying weapons of war and going inside of schools and shooting up and killing little kids while police officers are outside because they are outgunned by an 18-year-old whacko. most republicans don't want to do anything about that. 90% of americans want universal background checks. republicans are siding with the

10%. and the gun makers. you could go down the list one after another after another, all of the things that have unfolded over the past six to nine months have shown republican radicalism. trump radicalism at its very worst and i believe there are a third of republicans who understand that this -- that trumpism is literally killing the republican party, that it is already killed conservatism and perhaps, just perhaps, we may see the party one day, one day move in a direction opposite of where donald trump has taken them over the past six years. >> you could only hope. this wednesday will mark 25 years since princess diana was killed in a car crash. there will be no public commemorations by the royal family. and the anniversary comes as relations remain cold between her sons, the two princes.

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car accident in paris. over the weekend, her son, prince harry, spoke at an event to honor his mother's life and legacy. and nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella has more from london. >> reporter: princess diana legacy as impactful as ever on the week marking 25 years since her car crash. prince harry honoring his mother through charity after his winning polo seem in aspen raised a record amount last week. >> in honor of our mother. >> the money will help children in africa. a cause that was very close to princess diana's heart. the duke of sussex paying tribute ahead of her tragic death. >> and she will never be forgotten. i want it to be a day filled with memories of her work and the love for the way that she

did it. i want it to be a day to share the spirit of my mom with my family and with my children who i wish could have met her. >> but on a day many thought could bring prince harry and prince william together, it seems long time tensions will keep them apart. >> a lot of people here looking at the two brothers, remembering that it is 25 years since their mother died which is we love to think this is the occasion where they might patch up their relationship. but so far there is no sign that that is going to happen. >> the two have made it clear that the 20th anniversary was the last time they would publicly mark the occasion. >> it still seems there is significant bad blood between them. it goes back to the courtship of harry and megan and the wedding. >> the brothers did unite last summer to unveil a statue of princess diana at kensington palace for what would have been her 60th birthday. this week prince harry will mourn in private with his wife meghan markle and their two young children at home in california and in england prince

william will do the same with his family as they prepare to move to their new home at adda laid cottage in windsor. >> nbc's kelly cobiella with that report. >> they don't have to be together like every couple of years to do this years to do this publicly. it's kind of ghoulish for people to pressure them to be together as brothers in public for the whole world to see. it's kind of up to them. and how they mourn their mom's passing and people should give them space and leave them alone. >> i can't believe it's been 25 years. >> i know. my god. absolutely unbelievable. >> up next, as the busy summer travel season winds down, there's a new report card on how the travel companies are doing. turns out, it's worse than we thought. >> it's a lot like the boston red sox. >> oh, now. stop it. >> they're going to be playing the texas rangers later this

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reveals an elevation in complaints. the department of transportation releasing a report which found complaints soared up 35% in may and almost 270% since before the pandemic. in the first few months of 2022, more complaints than all of 2019. in surprise for those who took to the skies this summer. >> it's been the worst experience ever. >> reporter: with airline reliability, or lack thereof, topping the list of gripes. the report zeros in on alaska, delta, and hawaiian landed on time most often. though all well below historic norms from the last 20 years. while frontier, jetblue and aleejt make up the bottom three, landing two out of five flights late. the airline tells us it continues to be impacted by a

labor shortage. adding they are actively working to mitigate the problem. on the cancellation front, american, delta, and united also have the highest cancellation rate this is june, though offer the most flights. american and delta tell us they have since improved their operations. >> june was the worst month of the year when it comes to flight delays and cancellations. now i think things have improved significantly, but i think it really underscores just how bad things got with air travel. >> reporter: one key tip ahead of the holiday travel boom. book early flights. the report finding those flights were about 25% more likely to be on time than those at the end of the day. and if you're caught in the travel nightmare with a delayed or canceled flight, be sure to ask the airline for compensation. >> everything is on the table and it never hurts to ask. >> reporter: still, some hope for travelers heading into the fall. many experts are expecting ticket prices to drop after the busy summer season and of

course, if you take to the road instead, gas prices are still falling. good news for drivers over labor day weekend. >> and one thing that should add a boost of confidence here moving forward is the fact that all airlines for the most part have trimmed their schedules and boosted staff across the board, knowing the status quo right now is not acceptable. back to you. >> okay. we'll see. sam brock, thank you so much. if we could only have -- one final story. for the fourth time in 17 years, hawaii is home to little league world series champion. the victory completed a dominance season for honolulu. the team outscored opponents 60-5 over six games in the tournament. congratulations. >> this is a team. i don't know, jonathan, they go up against the red sox, i got to believe they're going to win four out of seven. any week of the year. >> no. >> i like their chances for

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