joining us now is jackie alemany, investigations reporter for the "washington post." thank you for being with us tonight. this feels like maybe not full circle but quite a ways around the arc from your initial reporting. >> thanks so much for having me. >> i know that you and your colleagues have been continuing to report this story. you were the first to break the news of this scandal six months ago. what do you understand about the latest here about the scope of the fbi's action and what it says about the investigation as a whole. >> we're trying to get details right now, and what we have heard so far is that, which the former president confirmed himself is, that the fbi did raid the premises today. this is an especially newsworthy development though, because obviously, six months ago, we reported that the national archives had sent people down to mar-a-lago to recover about 15 boxes worth of documents, classified information, and various mementos, things, records, that belonged to the american people, from former president trump. the fbi revisiting him today, indic

joining us now, jackie alemany, washington post congressional investigations reporter, and also frankzi, now host of the bureau podcast and the man, the myth, the legend, former cia director john brennan and they are all msnbc contributors and director brennan, we'll get to you. we have a lot of questions that i want to get to you, and i missed you last week and dying to know what you have to say. jackie alemany, things moved fast last week and they're still moving fast and tell us what you know in terms of where the story is headed right now? >> john, we are still entering the question that everyone else is trying to answer which is what exactly did the fbi ultimately seize from the premises at mar-a-lago and from the president's residence. as the search warrant that was provided on friday indicated, agents were seeking evidence of three potential violations of federal statutes and including a section of the espionage act which makes it a crime to possess or share event secrets without authorization and a law against stealing, destroying or mutilating government records, but aside fr

jackie alemany, investigative reporter and msnbc contributor. andrew weissmann is back and member of the robert mueller's special counsel investigation and frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant for counterintelligence and an msnbc national security analyst and miles is here from the department of homeland security co-founder of a new national political group that recently launched called forward. >> i want to start with you, jackie alemany. you've had some of the reporting that's been way out in front of the taking of the documents and the efforts to get them back to mar-a-lago. what do you find when you dive through this affidavit? >> yeah, nicole. i think what jumps out is the volume which is what everyone's headline is leading with today. this is a number that we had been looking for, but was previously unknown. we had been described the volume of classified documents in various different ways as we had previously reported. we were told the page numbers of items that were listed and there were certain numbers of sets and we did not know that

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jackie alemany, vastly a shuns reporter for the washington post. i know you're in the middle of -- helped break in the first place. call us back over the course of the hour as you learn more, obviously we will be covering this closely as we possibly can. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, i want to bring into the conversation chuck rosenberg, he's a former u.s. attorney, a former senior fbi official, in the first into a immediately get in touch with a nights like this to make sure that i have the legal part of this, at least, under my belt, and i can explain it in a way that is going to make sense to other non lawyer such as myself. chuck, my friend, thanks for being with us tonight. >> well, thank you for having me, rachel. >> first, let me just get your top line reaction to this rate. tell me if i've said anything thus far that doesn't strike you as correct, in terms of the way these procedures work. telling what you think about the seriousness of this? >> so, your explanation at the opening we are showing spot on, i'm not sure why you need m

clearest case against donald trump was this mishandling of documents, that it was 15 boxes, as jackie alemanywas warned not to take these documents. if you remember and ironically this was the same type of investigation hillary clinton faced, was she intentionally mishandling classified snfrgz? and the case i have for the case trump mishandling potentially classified information is stronger because he was told not to take these records but he took them to florida. so i think that is the focus of the -- you know, of the search, and that is the most likely that is the focus of the search, and most likely there's gonna be a criminal charge that will be the one. >> david just as a follow-up to that, is it your sense that then pursuing this with a search warrant rather than just sending a subpoena telling companies to collect these deep documents incentive indicates a certain level of urgency or aggressiveness in terms of how fast they are approaching this and moving? >> it's very aggressive. there is a sense of urgency. there is evidence that he is destroying documents every day. this is an incre

let's bring in congressional investigations reporter for "the washington post," jackie alemany. msnbc contributor. jackie, what more do you know about this and other requests, perhaps for records by the committee? >> good morning, mika. yeah, these text messages from alex jones could be a treasure-trove for the january 6th select committee. they're very likely to actually receive these texts. as you just noted, alex jones was not that cooperative with the committee. as we've seen previously, text messages have been key evidentiary building blocks for the committee as they've done their work in the past year. in a subpoena letter from congressman bennie thompson, they noted several areas and topics that jones' text messages could provide further light on. one, jones was involved with the planning of the january 6th rally on the ellipse. we've previously reported about some of his communications with planners of the rally, like wren and ali alexander, as well, ana tortuous insurrectionist who was cooperating with the committee. they're also extremely interested in what jones said t

the washington post, jackie alemany, thank you once again, for your reporting on this.our analysis in just a few minutes on the very latest happening out of ukraine. >> and the red sox bull pen. >> and that. first up, senator kyrsten sinema is a big focus for the democratic party this week. as the party decides whether she supports the new reconciliation deal. a new report says senator sinema wasn't upset that she wasn't included. >> and why should she be? because she doesn't talk. at least not in public. >> there is a tax consideration in the bill that she has consistently opposed in the past. despite that, senator joe manchin of west virginia, who brokered the legislation deal, with majority leader, chuck schumer, says he believes she will support it. >> let me say that kyrsten sinema is a friend of mine. and we work very close together. she has a tremendous, tremendous input in this piece of legislation. this is things that everyone has worked on, over the last eight months or more. and she basically insisted that no tax increases, we've done that. she was very adama

jackie alemany, we always appreciate your coverage. thank you, all of you. >>> before we go to break, some of the other stories making headlines this morning. the u.s. is sending an additional $1 billion in military aid to ukraine. the pentagon announced yesterday the new shipment includes tens of thousandsexplosives, the largest such package since russia invaded ukraine in february. >>> severe weather and staff shortages are hampering u.s. flights this week. another 500 canceled flights yesterday, following more than 1,500 cancellations this past weekend. the majority impacted hubs in new york and chicago. demand for air travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels, while airlines struggle with staffing shortages, among other issues. >>> and voters head to the polls today in the battleground state of wisconsin, where the republican gubernatorial primary has become a political proxy contest between former president trump and former vice president mike pence. businessman tim michaels has trump's endorsement, while former lieutenant govern

investigations reporter for "the washington post," jackie alemany is here. she's an msnbc contributor. nbc news senior national political reporter marc caputo joins us this morning. jackie, in a new piece entitled "trump's secrets: how a records dispute led the fbi to search mar-a-lago," you and your colleagues write, in part, quote, a trump adviser said the former president's reluctance to relinquish the records stems from his belief that many items created during his term, photos, notes, even a model of air force one built to show off a new paint job that he had commissioned, are now his personal property. despite a law dating to 1970s that decreed otherwise. he gave them what he believed was theirs, the adviser said. he gets his back up every time they asked him for something, said another trump adviser. he didn't give the documents because he didn't want to. he doesn't like those people. he doesn't trust those people. but this goes back all the way to the beginning of the trump administration, joe. >> but, mika -- or we'll go to you, jackie. model airplan

more on that coming up, but first joining us now, jackie alemany, washington post congressional investigationsorter and msnbc contributor, msnbc legal analyst, current law professor in the university of alabama and joyce vance is here and another friend at this table, best-selling author kurt anderson, his most recent chart topper, co-creator of studio 360 who is making a very important movie right now with a famous director. we'll talk more about that throughout the day. jackie, you're among those journalists that i touted before in doing great work today in understanding what happened. you are on the byline of this washington post piece we read from and you're all over the story. give us as much detail as possible about that june 3rd meeting between the members of trump's legal team and the justice department. it seems pretty important. >> yeah. so what we know about that meeting is that officials finally traveled down to mar-a-lago to meet with members of trump's legal team to go discuss and figure out what other materials might remain despite all of the extensive back and forth over the co

"the washington post"'s jackie alemany. former federal attorney chuck rosenberg, thank you, both. >>> president biden stepped back on the campaign trail yesterday with a fundraiser and rally in the d.c. suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events, telling donors, quote, what we're seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it's not just trump, it is like semi-fascism, said the president. the rnc said, despicable. biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyers, and sent our country into a recession while families can't afford gas and groceries. democrats don't care about suffering americans. they never did. end quote from the rnc. here is what the president said later at a rally for maryland democrats in rockville. >> the alternative to the democrats are the maga republicans. the maga republicans have awakened the powerful force in america, the women of this nation. maga republicans don't have a clue about the

joining us now, "the washington post's" jacqueline alemany, who is behind this reporting, she is also an msnbc contributor. jackie you. take us through your reporting here. it just seems like standard operating procedure is to erase a ton of stuff? >> that's what seems to be the issue right now, jose, and a big roadblock for the january 6th select committee in their efforts to obtain these materials that they requested through the national archives over a year ago. it was one of the first requests that they initially sent out. and while they have so far received a boat load of other interviews, there are some key, potentially helpful communications that are missing and have been erased and might be unrecoverable because of this procedural breakdown. as you noted, it's not just the department of defense and army officials who were in charge of mobilizing the national guard to respond to the capitol attack, that deleted their text messages. it was an erasing that was done in keeping with the policy of the defense department and army policy, but it's also the department of homeland security and u.s. secret service,