one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month s elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we re gonna tell you her remarkable story and we will meet her in the next hour. velshi begins right now. good morning, feel it is an effort in the ninth. i am a label. she just must election. they were officially in of the 2020 midterms. is the first major election since the 2020 presidential election, and the insurrection of the. capital as well into these last weeks of the election cycle, the former president s grip on t
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
a dog trainer, a tech worker and a farmer when they re at home, but now these three british volunteers are in ukraine helping to rescue the helpless. tens of thousands of rail workers will stage three days of national rail strikes later this month, the rmt union has announced. it ll be the largest outbreak of industrial action in the industry in a generation and will shut down the entire rail network in england. with all the details i m joined by our correspondent, jon donnison. talk to us first of all about when this is going to happen. we know there are three days. this is going to happen. we know there are three days. promises to be hu:el there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. 50,000 there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. 50,000 workers l there are three days. promises to be| hugely disruptive. 50,000 workers in total across 13 different train operating countries and the london u
A handful of mega-rich donors have emerged as key backers of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, collectively donating more than $50 million to support his candidacy.