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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 ....
we are standing by to review that affidavit as soon as it comes out, which could be this hour. let s begin this hour with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. jess, this affidavit could be released any moment, sometime between now and noon. walk us through this whole process, what we will see, what we probably won t see. yeah, in i minute now, guys. what s interesting about this is it s all been a relatively rapid process. you know, it was less than four hours after the doj submitted their proposed redactions that the judge ruled, yes, in fact, he would accept that proposal and it would be released to the public. like you said, in just two hours here. and what s notable is that the judge seems to be agreeing with what the doj has proposed, despite the fact that what we saw in court just about a week ago was doj pushing back substantially against the judge, saying even if they issued a redacted version of this affidavit, they said that there would be so many re ....
weeks ago. what we could learn when the document comes out. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 26th. i m willie geist. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former united states senator and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. we wake up to some news this morning. a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant executed at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate will be made available to the public by at least noon today, possibly this morning. federal magistrate judge rhinehart yesterday ordered it to be unsealed after the justice department submitted the redacted version for him to review. in the order, he outlined which sections of the affidavit the government redacted before public release, saying, i find the government has met its burden of finding a compelling reason, a good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit. because disclosure would reveal the ....
struggling to inspire his supporters and allies to action. meanwhile, politico quoted deeply frustrated democrats who referred to biden as a fool and hopelessly naive. they want biden to be more aggressive on abortion rights, gun control, packing the courts, but he can barely get through a simple speech without taking some pretty major detours. watch this. i m going to do it anyway, i ll tell a story. i don t know if we will see pope benedict. s pto, will spare you the details. amid the own struggles , the president invited this ofe smartest guy he knows to the white house, none other than hunter biden pictured and 1600 pennsylvania avenue all week. this has hunter continues to be the focus of major investigations including a criminal money laundering probe tied to the biden family business. growing calls from senators johnson and grassley. the department of justice to investigate joe biden s funding of his son s participation in a russian ring. also an ongoing inves ....
dana: in the meantime we re expecting a series of rapid fire decision in the final days of the term. among those still to come the case of a high school football coach fired for praying on the field and attempt to stop president biden from whether or not regulations should be decided by the white house or the job of congress. looming over all of this a potentially transformative decision on abortion. the court weighing the fate of a 15-week ban on to procedure from the state of mississippi. that decision has the potential to overturn roe v. wade which would end nearly 50 years of precedence. dana: reaction is pouring in after the court decided a new york law restricting guns in public was in violation of the second amendment. for more on that we go to chief legal correspondent shannon bream in washington a lot of takes, yesterday, a lot of hot takes. give us your reasons and informed takes this morning. listen, it was definitely an expansive second amendment-f ....