justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
here because he s recovering from a stroke. that s his wife gisele. earlier, they laid out the stake of the race on morning joe. i don t think it s night and day, it s going to make a difference between codifying roe v. wade or looking to raise the minimum wage and addressing climate issues. it s really two different sides of the coin. in the governor s race, republican leadership is reeling, worrying about the general election now that state senator doug mastriano won the gop nomination for governor. he rose to prominence by denying the 2020 election results, big ally of donald trump. and was in washington on january 6th. some are probably worried because of all of that he s unelectable in a general against the dem-nominee ad josh shapiro. and in a blow, madison cawthorn will not be returning to congress, losing a race that many said was his to lose. steve kornacki has that on the big board. and sweden and finland just jointly submitted their applications to join n
do these special elections just tell us that democrats are very engaged right now and when we get lower propensity voters joining the elect rast it may even out a little bit? i m not sure. alaska will be an interesting test of that because we re going to have back-to-back races here. the other thing i would just say about alaska also, i mean, when i went up there and covered, it was actually senator begich who was recently a democratic senator from alaska who lost back in 2014, it is a state that holds on to its individuality in a very aggressive and unique way. and i think any of us i sort of made the vow to myself i m not going to be here in washington if i haven t been there recently and explain to people what s going on there because it s a very special place. i think it s easily a state that could send peltola and also lisa murkowski to washington come november. one thing that s also striking is again, yes, as kasie said, alaska is its own unique place but democratic data firm
we would be remiss, ali, if we didn t tell everybody about this, your book electable: why america hasn t put a woman in the white house. it s now available on preorder. thank you so much. i m very, very proud of you i cannot wait to read the book. reporter: thank you. and the house judiciary committee is on hour two of a hearing what it is calling the ongoing crisis abortion rights. after the leaked supreme court draft opinion indicated that roe v. wade could be soon overturned. elizabeth warren is spearheading the act to protected the privacy of women who get abortions. she and others calling on location data firms to provide information on information of the collection of cell phone data tied to abortion clinics, folks are worried about this.