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
they are losing the future electorate. the problem is, is that going to happen fast enough? is the implosion of the republican party going to happen fast enough that they can t do as much damage to the republic generally as they might? you know, it s a race against time in that sense. these attacks on the fbi are born, of course, out of last week s search warrant conducted by the fbi at mar-a-lago. the federal judge now deciding whether to unseal the affidavit about that search appeared to stake out some middle ground yesterday. saying he is inclined to unseal the affidavit. magistrate judge rhinehart gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge stated, quote, the government has not met its burden of showing the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed redactions and then decide if he agrees with them. he did not give a timeline beyond next thursday, saying, quote, this is going to be a
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
beautiful live picture of the white house on a summer friday at 6:34 in the morning. 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 that affidavit. magistrate judge bruce rhinehart gave the justice department until next thursday to submit redactions. in a written ruling, the judge said, quote, the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. the judge said he would review the proposed redactions, then decide if he agrees with them. he did not give a timeline beyond next thursday. saying, quote, this is going to be a considered, careful process. the government argued against unsealing the affidavit, claiming it would jeopardize its investigation and because it contains, quote, substantial grand jury information with national security overtones. the justice department also indicated for the first time