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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 ....
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 ....
cnn s chief white house correspondent caikate lynn coll with us. the daughter of alexander dugina was killed. they believe someone planted explosives and ordered the attack. darya dugina died at the scene, she was a russian tv commentator and outspoken supporter of russia s actions in ukraine. dugina s father alexander owned the vehicle and might have been the intended target. he is an influential writer in russia, he advocates for an aggressive imperialist russia and many believe that his ideas have a lot of sway inside the kremlin. some russian officials are already blaming ukraine for the deadly bombing, but a top adviser to ukraine s president says that his country had nothing to do with it. fred pleitgen has the latest from the moscow. reporter: hi there, kaitlan. the read of russia today, kremlin controlled media, has come out and demanded that kyiv be hit in response to the death of darya dugina. you already just mentioned the fact that there are some in russ ....
person was supposed to be there. they are trying to make sure which part of the mar-a-lago affidavit is significant. it could cause significant damage to their criminal investigation. the federal magistrate who is considering the issue did put out an order just a few minutes ago saying he agrees the doj has a substantial reason to protect details of this ongoing investigation. we ll get into that ahead. also very disturbing images from a violent arrest in arkansas. this is so hard to even watch. this video shows two deputies and an officer appearing to punch and knee a suspect during an arrest. all three of those officers have been taken off duty. they are under investigation. multiple kicks to the head there. let s again there. omar jimenez has more on that. we do want to warn you once again, a lot of these images are disturbing. three arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty after this video showing them hitting a man outside a store in mulb ....
of their vehicles, break the windows and then just swim to safety in the dark. you can also see here police, first responders helping them get to higher ground. dallas fire rescue has responded to more than 180 water related emergencies. consider this, an entire summer s worth of rain fell on dallas in just hours, as much as 10 inches since sunday. one driver said her car got stuck in just minutes, and then the threat was not just on the roads. a woman woke up to knee-deep water flooding her apartment. she had just moved in. a lot of her stuff ruined. cnn s senior national correspondent, ed lavandera joins me from dallas. what are you seeing? reporter: victor, as you ve laid out, it s been a brutal morning/overnight here. this is a neighborhood in southeast dallas county. this has been some of the hardest hit areas where in some places i ve seen local weather reports say some people have received 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. that is the kind of rainfall th ....