8 00 pm out west, 11 here on the east coast in washington and this is americas favourite late news, fox news at night. Breaking tonight, President Trump Justice Jones throw away from getting enough delegates to clinch the nomination with nikki haley no out of the race next weeks president ial primaries are expected to make it official pier President Biden will also become his partys nominee in the coming weeks. Live in los angeles with how itll all work out. President trumps Super Tuesday performance put them within reach of clenching his Third Republican Party nomination for president with voters and a handful of states set to put trump over the top 161 republican delegates. The four states set to hold primaries this tuesday with 125 days left until the Republican National convention in milwaukee. With just five and a half months left before the democratic convention, President Biden was in philadelphia today fresh off his state of the Union Address last night. Mentioned trump several
be a major political minefield for now. it deny special counsel, jack smith, requests to fast-track a decision on whether donald trump has broad immunity for actions he took as president while challenging his 2020 election loss. this means justices will allow the case to move forward through the regular appeals process. it is likely that the court will also be soon confronted with another trump case. today trump confirmed that his legal team is working on an appeal of a colorado high court ruling that would kick him off the primary ballot. there are challenges to trump s ballot eligibility underway and more than a dozen other states including michigan. now that state is also in the spotlight after the detroit news reported that trump and rnc chair woman, ronna mcdaniel, try to pressure to republican canvassers and michigan into not certifying the 2020 presidential election results. the paper reviewed recordings of trump and mcdaniel on phone calls with to local officials just
delayed until tomorrow settlement would avoid weeks of further embarrassment for fox, including testimony by its highest profile stars and executives. there s something about being on the eve of trial that can really sober up both parties. it s a reality. another mass shooting this time at an alabama sweet 16 birthday party. it appears that someone just started firing from within, and then he just saw the bodies of teenagers dropping do exactly what we need to do to ensure justice brought to those families. these children had very great features. they just wanted to have fun. the blame game continues in sudan over who exactly is responsible for this fresh round of violence. the majority of fighting is happening in the capital of cartoon as the country s army and paramilitary groups fight for control. people in sudan want democracy. sudan needs to return to that path. kansas city community protests after 16 year old ralph yaro was shot. this is not something that has been dism
hook for some of the statements that were made. so i m sure it s anxiety inducing for a lot of them and on top of everything else that they re watching politically, which if you look at any of the national polls that have come out lately, even though his base has remained solid, you see incremental degradation with the general electorate. losing to joe biden. i m sure some republican is going to come along and make that point in the primary. we ve seen very bad weeks for him before and he s managed to publicly at least in the court of public opinion he s been able to skirt around it. this feels different to me. and it may be different. first of all, when it comes to public opinion, something like 60%, 61% of the country does not want him to run in 2024. his base is solidly behind him and the republican voters are solidly behind him but the independents have walked away. in fact, the number goes up to 67% for independents don t want him to run. so things are not working th
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