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
stavridis joins us on the state of russia s invasion of ukraine nearly six months in. plus, a report on why russian tanks have become rolling death traps for the soldiers inside. we ll explain how a flaw in their design has rendered them almost useless on the battlefield. and as we go to break, this story out of washington. a critic of vladimir putin who was living in exile in the u.s. was found dead outside his upscale d.c. apartment building. 52-year-old dan rapoport was discovered on the sidewalk sunday in georgetown, according to police who made the discovery after receiving calls of a jumper. the latvian-born businessman left russia in 2012 over his support of dissident navalny, and settled into a home in washington. in 2016, he sold the home to
$1.6 million is personally a drop in the bucket when you look at all the money the federal government gives out. but to give them money for their failed policies that have emboldened criminals doesn t make sense. a city like chicago already on track to receive $1.5 billion in non-covid related funding in 2022 should be taken to task for its policies that enable gang bangers and criminals to feel like they run this city. none of this money would be necessary right now if politicians allowed the police to do anywhere jobs as you said, todd, we actually incarcerated the criminals who are committed to violence in our neighborhoods. right now all of that money, all of this is just a headline grab for the president. will: let me give you an example of one of those policies that alderman could be referencing. last night i was hosting tucker carlson tonight. i will again tonight. we did a story out of washington, the state of washington where there s an effort to lessen the penalties
to run its course and why a hot of the members on these committees on capitol hill want to subpoena that interpreter. thank you so much. coming up next, more on this fast-moving story out of washington. both sides dig in on this escalating shutdown. a new fight over the fate of the president s state of the union address. plus we ll talk live to a woman who i ve interviewed several times ever since her son was killed by gun violence. this is jordan s room. this is the last mother s day card he gave me. thank you for bringing me into the world. i love you. this time around, lucy is a congresswoman. the newly elected democrat joins me live to talk about gun control legislation that she just introduced and what she thinks should be done to end th this, next.
liberals are so upset about this decision that they re acting like frustrated toddlers throwing tantrums. it s like the national organization of women yesterday calling the little sisters of the poor part of the dirty 100 and all these other catholic charitable groups. like anybody who disagrees with them, throw any argument at the wall and wait until it sticks and hope people will agree with you on it. come on, everybody. take a breath. can t we all get along? no. heather nauert, how are you? good morning. we ve got quite a story out of washington. a late-night hearing, and listen to what happened there. four v.a. whistle-blowers testifying in front of congress, all of them detailing the retaliation that they suffered for reporting failures within the v.a. system. doctors were fired simply for speaking up about internal problems at the agency. some of them saying that they were even publicly ridiculed. listen to this. at that party, this slide was shown in front of close to