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
charges. what can you tell us? clearly, your legal training is at the forefront of your brain, joe. that s what every practicing lawyer tells me. we don t have reporting on what happened in the room, but it is possible they just required him to answer every single question they had. it may be that he pleaded the fifth 600 times over 6 hours. they ve done that with other witnesses, as have other federal grand juries. we don t know. it is hard to believe he answered any substantive questions, given his enormous legal exposure we can all see in front of our face, and given the fact he is a target of the investigation, joe. what insights, jonathan lemire, can you give us about rudy giuliani in this georgia case? his responsibility, his part in the big lie? i know he was pushing the big lie from the beginning after the election, and there were a lot of trump attorneys inside the
germany. germany has also been reluctant to spend on defense what the natal recommended or agreed-upon target is. of the nato members got together and said we want to target spending, 2% of the size of our economies on our defense budget, that s something germany has resisted as have other nato members. that s something the united states has been pushing for several administrations to try to get nato to spend more money here. there are issues at play here. we are only seen the first couple of tranches or rounds of sanctions on all of this. as these sanctions get more difficult, cutting russia off from the bank messaging service known as swift we ve heard that talked a lot about lately. that could be an issue that begins to drive a wedge between some of the countries here. thus far a couple of days into this conflict, the west has held together. but there are so many domestic issues at play here for all the countries involved which does make this difficult. shannon: it does complica
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because nato now is seeing these russian the thames as a kind of a military aggression we heard comments there from the nato secretary general have other nato members been reacting. well all native members have their own allegations the brits issued a report the united states indicted. other russians in other related cases but also no way australia switzerland came forward with allegations so this is the attempt to show a worldwide elian s against these alleged russian attacks and of course as you mentioned russia is denying all these cases a russian spokeswoman said today it s all pure fantasy. russia is already suffering from sanctions imposed on it for its actions in ukraine. i wonder where this can go from here. nato and also the united states certainly considering