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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 tr...

Joining us now, former aide to the george w bush white house and state departments, our friend elise jordan. she is also an msnbc political analyst. great to see you. let's talk about congress woman cheney and her defeat. first, let's talk about what that moment says about the party writ large. >> i mean, look at the numbers. it was basically a 70/30 loss in wyoming, one of the reddest state, but also a red where, in nearby casper, the football stadium, the high school football stadium, is named for her parents. the cheneys are legends in wyoming. even that last name and that legacy couldn't p...

Has a guaranteed pathway to meeting the -- i think it's going to maintain that priority for democrats going forward. f. >> if you get to the midterms in 2022, this is something they'll want to see progress on. this is maybe one of the strangest endorsements i've ever seen, but alaska's incumbent governor is running for a second term. he just accepted former president trump's endorsement with one condition. he said alaska needs mike dunleavy as governor now more than ever. he has my complete and total endorsement but this endorsement is subject to his nonendorsement of senator lisa murkowski wh...

Leader mcconnell said just before the holiday recess, in terms of republicans fighting to keep control of the senate, that's a new type of phenomenon. how they're able to sell this tax plan, that's when this is really going to matter. >> there's a tax plan, and then there are the demographics, rick. as the reporting in the lead-up here, women, how they are polling at the moment. we certainly saw that in voting in alabama because of the very dynamics on the ground there. how might that be remembered in 2018 or forgotten? >> well, it won't be forgotten. the democrats are going to take every oppo...

Know on the president's contrition. >> let's turn to alabama, because it's a big day and morning and polls are open across alabama for the hotly contested senate race. you say as a republican and republican strategist, in many ways the republican party already lost on this one. is there any winning for your party coming out of today no matter which way it goes? >> no, there's no winning. we have already lost this race. either doug jones will go to the senate from the reddest state in america, or we will have roy moore, who is a brand on the republican party, and if he wins, people will say he ...