i'd be curious, in fact, to hear what my friend david ignatius has to say about this, with a series ofm to do the legacy that he's left. david? >> so, if i can respond to that, susan, i do think that george h.w. bush was a master at playing out the end game with the soviet union was crumbling. all of the weakness that gorbachev had seen coming down around him. but to keep that debris from causing enormous damage. to see the change all the way through that without it erupting was an amazing achievement done by baker, done by his national security adviser, baker, his secretary of state, and then bush himself. i just want to note, thinking of something that joe said in 1983, i went to the soviet union, i went to moscow. gorbachev was then a rising protege of the kjb chairman. i went to see a dissident outside of moscow. somebody who lost everything. this person turned to me in this cold study and said -- reagan had just given the evil empire speech. he turned to me how can it your country which is so rich and we thought had forgotten about us that you have a president who still calls us b

." >> associate editor from "the washington post", david ignatius. donald trump can grift money off supporters, but he can't erase history. it is not that he use to mock the fifth amendment before invoking it yesterday hundreds of times, it is also his attack on fbi director christopher wray, a man he nominated to the job as a, quote, impeccable individual and model of integrity. >> a model, donald trump said. christopher wray was a model of integrity. >> after all, why would the feds will worried about top secret documents floating around mar-a-lago? remember when trump and his top aides coordinated their response to north korea's missile test in full view of club members, who then posted pictures of it on facebook? or when a chinese businesswoman made her way onto the grounds of mar-a-lago with a purse full of electronics, she was sentenced to prison. lucky for the ex-president, he has supporters like rand paul of kentucky, who once called trump a fake conservative clown. but now, parrots a conspiracy theory that america's top law enforcement agenc

sometimes the administration cannot say on its own can be found in the explanations just for david ignatiusonducts such m-m format when he answers the questions of washington post readers precisely on the topic of ukraine, what was interesting this time? by the way, i advise you to find this material, read many interesting questions and answers there. singled out only a few of the questions about whether ukraine has enough forces to carry out a counteroffensive . referring to the south, the answer was that i was told that the preparation of troops for this counterattack has been a priority for the united states and great britain for the past few months and this counteroffensive has been in the center of attention all summer for ukraine and its allies for this preparation was important as the deployment of new weapons and as tactical planning, and he goes on to say that it is difficult to catch russia by surprise when everyone knows that a counteroffensive is coming, but the ukrainians are very smart since february 24, they have been using cunning wherever they can. so, this probably also ap

we've got david ignatius, michael steel, and katty kay. first, willie, yesterday, i talked about how the republicans were putting targets on the backs of irs agents. lying about what supposedly is in this bill that just became law. and they are all lies. and then that, of course, goes on top of what happened with fbi agents. fbi worried about unprecedented threats. as i was saying that yesterday, i have a good friend who is an election official. a republican his whole life. i don't think he's ever voted for a democratic presidential candidate in his life. immediately texted me during the show. he goes, "hey, what about election officials?" we're getting death threats if we don't buy into conspiracy theories. three election officials said, "enough, we're tired for the death threats. we didn't sign up for this. we're quitting." it is not an overstatement to say that the republican party is putting in danger the lives of many great americans who just want to serve their government. these lies especially about the irs agents, so reckless and i

and columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius, will join us in a moment. joe, just a reminder of why the justice department might be a little concerned about nuclear secrets knocking around mar-a-lago. there was the time that trump spilled highly classified information to russia's foreign minister. or when he tweeted a highly classified satellite photo of an iranian space facility. or when he sided with the kremlin over america's own intelligence agencies. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> yeah. so with that in mind, we begin with new information on the fbi's search of donald trump's home in florida. people familiar with the investigation tell "the washington post" that classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items agents were searching for on monday. the sources did not disclose any additional details about the type of documents or if any were recovered. he

david ignatius, thank you so much.ingtonpost.com. >>> the inflation reduction act includes $80 million for the irs. the agency says it can recover $200 billion in additional tax revenue. steve rattner is here next to explain where that money will be coming from, when "morning joe" comes right back. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ "shake your thang" by salt n pepa moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers including lymphoma and skin cancer, death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines o

many years after the war and americanan journalist, david ignatius of the "washington post" asked one of the operatives why she risked her life to join the alliance. i don't understand the question, replied russo, responsible for one of thehe greatest clues of e war. she went on to say it was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. it was a must. how could you not do it. thank you now i would love to your questions. my favorite part of the whole evening. jim, you have a question. >> it's good to see you again and always good when you have a coming out. it's a pleasure for all of us. david halberstam was asked one time by a student what it takes to write a successful book and his answer was it has to be something that you do before you can go on and do anything else. i was wondering if that is the you in writing your books and also i'm interested in how did you come to finally the decision that you were going to be a historian. >> i think that i agree with david. each book that i've written i felt i've run across one or two characters that i needed a really strong chara

many years after the war and american journalists actually david ignatius of the washington post asked johnny russo one of marie matalin's operatives why she had risked her life to join the alliance . i don't understand the question replied russo who was responsible for one of the greatest allied intelligence cues of the war. she went on to say it was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. it was a must. how could you not do it? thank you. [applause] and now i'd love to hear from each of you, it's my favorite part of the wholeevening . jim, you have a question. always good to see you again. tand always good when you have a book coming out. it's a pleasure for all of us. david however sign was asked one time by our writing student what it takes to write a successful book. and his answer was it has to be something that you have to do before you can go on to do anything else. i was wondering if that was the case with you in writing your book and also i'm interested in how did you come to finally the decision that you were going to be a historian? how did that happen? >> i

an op-ed titled behind trump's campaign of delay and defiance at mar-a-lago, david ignatius writes that is now like king leader in angry exile. he adds, trump's notion of supreme personal power, his document narcissism might've caught up with him in the mar-a-lago search. ignatius ends with the suggested solution in this controversy. he writes, stop denigrating the rule of law. respect it. and with that, let's bring in our lead off panel. jacqueline alemany, congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, an msnbc contributor. eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico, and barb mcquade, veteran prosecutor and former dish and shiny for the eastern district of michigan. she worked with the doj during that biden inflation is a professor at the university of michigan law school. good to see you all, jacqueline, you have new reporting on just how long the national archives has been trying to get these documents back from trump, even before he left the white house. but the former president acts like he is surprised by this. tell us what you learned. >> joining us n