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 identi
describe himself in other terms and in other races as essentially pro-choice in some circumstances. i thought, huh, let me go to his website. i saw the personhood stuff. i was like, wow, this is different. my colleague, alan smith, and i teamed up and made some calls. right after alan called the campaign for blake masters, suddenly, the website changed. but we figured that would happen, so we screen-capped it ahead of time. it is a good example, as we pointed out in our story and you pointed out here, abortion is problematic currently for republicans. chuck coughlin, a republican pollster in arizona, says his polling shows masters down by ten points to mark kelly. he attributes a good amount of that movement to abortion, not just because of the policy in and of itself, but it is a gateway issue for democrats to frame republicans as being too extreme. according to coughlin s polling, you not only have women who disproportionately don t like masters, but you also have