meanwhile, a court hearing is scheduled for today on the request to unseal the affidavit used to search donald trump s mar-a-lago home. we ll have new reporting on where that investigation stands. plus, new polling in the fight to control the senate from a tight race in ohio to the democrat in wisconsin expanding his lead over republican ron johnson. we ll have the latest numbers for you this morning. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 18th. joe, looking ahead to a big hearing today. yup. a lot of political waves beginning to sort of form out of this. they are. i m curious, what did you think of mike pence s speech? it feels it feels like he s looking for a lane. i believe his speech, willie, if i m not correct, was in new hampshire, was it not? it was. yes, it was. that would be kind of the, i think, real story there. what is he doing there? there s obviously maybe a long game being played here. i don t want to get ahead of anyth
and beer for sunflower oil the munich pub finding an unusual way to beat a frying oil crunch. hello and welcome to the programme. the heatwave in southern europe is intensifying with wildfires forcing thousands of people to flee towns and villages. a number of people have already died, and temperatures are predicted to go well above a0 celsius in parts of spain and portugal. scientists say climate change is a factor in the severity of the heatwave. more than 11,000 people have been forced to leave france s southwestern gironde region, from where our europe correspondent, jessica parker, sent us this report. they ve been battling these fires for days. 1a,000 people have now been evacuated across the area. everything went so fast, and the fire, too, was big, big, big. and my friends woke me up and i was like, 0k, this is very serious, what do i take in my room? manon was working and living at a local campsite. for now, this conference centre is her home. 0thers wait here fo
inside politics. . i m john king. why did you do grief and horror land in texas? why did an 18-year-old turn gun on his grandmother before murdering, massacring children inside an elementary school? this is now the latest site of an american massacre of children. he killed 19 grade schoolers and two teachers two days before the summer break. all that death inside one classroom. cnn telling us the gunman entered the room, locked the door behind him and opened fire. other victims are in the hospital right now fighting for their lives. he attended a nearby high school. people described a tacit-turned teen with a temper. he bought weapons for his 18th birthday. you see them posting them there on a social media account just days before this horrific shooting. we know from the authorities he acted alone. families huddled inside a civic center to give dna swabs to help authorities match bodies to their parents. all the victims have now been identified. families notified, forced to
Bill american tourists arrested in the tiny island of Turks And Caicos facing more than a decade behind bars. Ammunition found in his luggage on the way home from a Family Vacation and about to learn his fate as u. S. Lawmakers fight to bring home the married father of two. There are four other americans detained on the island and more before all that as well. A new hour starts now. Im bill hemmer, dana has the day off today and hope she has an awesome weekend. Sandra im sandra smith. The Sentence Hearing is getting under way right now and as he gets set for this hearing, another detainee tyler, spoke to fox news digital about how he is holding up. It is scary and uncertain. It is just a rollercoaster. I mean, you just have a mix of emotions. Yesterday was very emotional for me and my wife and it will get that way again when we have a sentencing date and have to go into the courtroom to figure out what my fate is going to be. Bill you have a congressman out of pennsylvania representing
Courthouse in manhattan. We expect to hear from him before this day of court begins. What is his message in the morning, anyway before Stormy Daniels takes the stand . We expert her to be on the stand at 9 30 eastern time. Were off and running already. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Stormy daniels is said to be one of the key witnesses in the prosecutions case. She is expected to testify she had a sexual encounter with trump. But what will she add about receiving payments by his lawyer, Michael Cohen . Waiting on those remarks. As the republican candidate faces the threat of jail time from judge merchans Gag Order Trump said yesterday jail is a sacrifice he is willing to make. Andy mccarthy has the analysis. Eric sean has the reporting and where we begin live outside the courthouse this morning. Eric, hello. Good morning, bill. A big day at court. Stormy daniels, stephanie clifford, expected to take the Witness Stand in the trial half an hour from now. Ms. Daniels l