good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 19th. friday, folks. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the federal judge deciding whether to unseal the affidavit in the unprecedented search of mar-a-lago appeared to stake out the middle ground yesterday. saying he is inclined to unseal it, the magistrate judge gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge stated, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed reactions and then, redactions and decide if he agrees. he could not give a time line beyond next thursday saying quote this is going to be a considered careful process. the the government had argued against unsailing the affidavit laming it would jeopardize its investigation, and because it contains quote substantial grand jury information with national security over
yesterday s hearing. why is he more willing to fight the case in the court of public opinion than in actual court of law? plus, the former chief financial executive in the trump organization could have him testifying against the company in another trial that is expected to run up against the november elections. and speaking of the midterms, mitch mcconnell downplays now republican chances of retaking the senate, blaming the, quote, quality of his party s candidates. we ll have the new polling and reporting that shows mcconnell s concerns may be well-founded. joe, some more polls in the critical senate races across the country show why mcconnell may be concerned in august. word is they ve already given up on pennsylvania. they ve already given up on dr. oz. they re probably going to focus more in ohio and j.d. vance, hoping that he has a chance. but we have polls showing that this area, this stretch of critical swing states in the upper midwest all breaking against the r
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this paper came to be behind a padlock, on physical paper, in a banker s realized he didn t hae the attention span. he preferred the images and one-pagers. that s donald trump for you. mike allen, we ll speak on morning joe, as well. thanks for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. morning joe starts right now. good morning. welcome to morning joe. as you look at the sun just coming up over the united states capitol on friday, august 19th. it is a busy friday. that decision on whether to release the probable cause affidavit in the mar-a-lago search still up in the air this morning, after a federal judge gave the government a week to redact the information it does not want made public. and for all of donald trump s bluster about releasing the affidavit, his legal team was noticeably silent during
coming up on the top of the hour here in new york city. welcome back to morning joe. friday, august 19th. a very busy friday morning. a federal judge catches many legal experts off guard after he opened the door to releasing a redacted version of the affidavit in the fbi search of mar-a-lago. that came on the same day the executive who ran finances at the trump organization pleaded guilty in a tax case that could have him testifying against the company in a trial that is expected to run during the midterms. and mitch mcconnell see it is writing on the wall, downplaying republican chances of taking the senate amid new rolling that shows democrats making gains. joe, mitch mcconnell talked about candidate quality. that s saying, we have a bunch of crazy people running for the