support rising with inflation driving voters. let s get a closer look. we have brand new polls. usa today suffolk numbers. this is the generic ballot back in july. democrats were at the high point. 44% when asked do you want to vote for a republican or do you want to vote for a democrat? so now look at the flip that we have seen. so you ve got democrats now at 45. so they re hovering in the same area. what you re seeing is the undecideds are moving by the democrat vote. they re lining up with republicans. now at 49%. these undecided voters that we speak with in pennsylvania amplify that move that we re seeing. watch. how is inflation impacting your daily life and maybe shane, you can talk about your business as an electrician. you run your own company. yeah, driving a large truck around every day sucks up the gas mileage. it certainly makes a difference on how far you want to travel to take a job. are you making different personal decisions about travel or about buyin
search of mar-a-lago. as the fbi continues to go through the documents and files taken from donald trump s home. and democrats seem to be building momentum ahead of the midterms. we ll have a look at the latest polling in key races, and a slight approval rating rebound for president biden. good morning. and welcome to way too early, on this thursday, august 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a hearing on whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit from mar-a-lago is set for 1:00 p.m. eastern today, it comes ten days after the search of donald trump s home two. law enforcement officials tell the fbi is still sifting through the seized documents separated those to be covered by attorney-client privilege and those that are relevant to the case. meanwhile the justice department s probe into the january 6th attack on the capitol is picking up steam. the new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors issued a grand jury subpoena to the
less overthrow the election, pressured them almost every day, asking officials to say things that were not true, that they told him were not true, and trying to get them to do things without precedence and that were arguably not legal. watch. let s take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do. what i m asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. i made the point that jeff clark is not even competent to serve as the attorney general. he s never been a criminal attorney. he s never conducted a criminal investigation in his life. he s never been in front of a trial jury. and he kind of retorted by saying, well, i ve done a lot of very complicated appeals and civ
including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trump s ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the premise which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in florida. the list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, an abbreviation that refers to top secret sensitive compartmented information. it also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. the list didn t provide any more details about the substance of the documents. to the extent that anybody is back to
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a