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A judge has ordered the release of a redacted affidavit supporting the FBI search of Donald Trump's home, and a reporter who has helped advance the story explained what she is hoping to see.

The Department of Justice submitted redactions they believe are necessary to protect witnesses and preserve their investigation of the former president's handling of top-secret documents, and Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what she is realistically expecting the affidavit might reveal.

Former President Donald Trump took hundreds of documents marked as classified and improperly stored them at his home in Mar-A-Lago, according to a review conducted by the National Archives, and a reporter who's been covering the criminal investigation expressed shock at the number.

A letter published by the former president's contacts with the National Archives offered the first official accounting of the materials Trump hoarded after leaving the White House, and The Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell reacted to the news on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

The documents that Donald Trump hoarded at Mar-A-Lago could have caused a "massive firestorm" and gotten people killed if they had somehow leaked out, according to new reports.

The New York Times reported that more than 300 documents with classified markings have been recovered from the former president's home, including some marked with the highest level of classification, and NBC News reporter explained the seriousness of those to MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" debated which of former President Donald Trump's endorsed candidates for the U.S. Senate were the least qualified.

The former president helped Blake Masters, Mehmet Oz, J.D. Vance and Herschel Walker win their Republican primary races in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia, respectively, but each of them are struggling to connect with voters ahead of November's midterm elections, and co-host Willie Geist said Trump's picks simply appear unqualified.

New reporting shows former President Donald Trump had squirreled away more than 300 classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, and investigators finally took action when they realized he wouldn't turn some of them over voluntarily.

The New York Times reported that agents swooped into the former president's home after receiving some documents in January and then others in June, but law enforcement expert Chuck Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" how the timeline explained the sense of urgency displayed by investigators but raised new questions about Trump's handling of those documents.

The Department of Justice believes former President Donald Trump may have been up to "something nefarious" by stashing top-secret government documents at his private resort in Florida.

FBI agents searched Mar-A-Lago last week and seized 11 sets of documents the National Archives had been seeking for more than a year, and Washington Post reporter Amber Phillips told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that recent court filings showed investigators were interested in more than simply getting those papers back.

Attorney George Conway revealed the games Donald Trump's lawyers are playing after the FBI search of Mar-A-Lago.

Multiple media outlets have asked a judge to unseal the affidavit that justified the search, and Trump and his lawyers have publicly called for that evidence to be revealed -- but Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that it's telling that they haven't joined the request in court.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blamed Donald Trump for wrecking Republican chances for taking back the Senate majority.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell knocked the "quality" of candidates endorsed by the former president and chosen by GOP primary voters, saying they appeared unlikely to win, and the "Morning Joe" host said they would likely prevent Republicans from gaining legislative majorities.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Republican lawmakers for putting a target on IRS agents' backs with incendiary rhetoric.

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act allocates nearly $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service, and some leading Republicans have spread false claims that 87,000 armed agents will be hired to target middle-class taxpayers -- and the "Morning Joe" host called out their lies as dangerous.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough exposed the game Donald Trump's lawyers are trying to play by pressuring the Department of Justice to reveal their confidential sources.

News organizations have asked a court to unseal the affidavit used to justify an FBI search warrant for Mar-A-Lago, and the former president's lawyers have called on the Justice Department to reveal the names of witnesses who helped secure the warrant -- and the "Morning Joe" called out what they were planning to do.

MSNBC's John Heilemann admonished Republicans for circling their wagons around Donald Trump before they even learn the full facts about what top-secret documents he squirreled away at Mar-A-Lago.

Republicans had been cruising toward a congressional majority, but the overturning of Roe v. Wade protections, the Uvalde school shooting and the Jan. 6 committee hearings have dealt the GOP a series of setbacks, and the "Morning Joe" political analyst was baffled by their continued defense of Trump's corruption and extremism.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough revealed a pair of "disturbing" phone calls he had this week with a friend and family member calling for the destruction of the U.S. government as investigators move closer to Donald Trump.

The FBI search of Mar-A-Lago has spooked the former president and enraged his supporters -- which Trump has tried to use as leverage to reduce the heat on himself -- and the "Morning Joe" host said that included some previously "boring" moderates who were now willing to destroy the constitutional republic rather than hold Trump accountable.

Former President Donald Trump appears to be losing one of his top conservative media allies, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Republicans may finally be willing to cut him loose before he sinks their election chances again.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham said on a recent podcast that Americans are "exhausted" by the former president and may prefer to "turn the page" to another Republican presidential candidate in 2024, and the "Morning Joe" host said they'd be wise to do it sooner rather than later.