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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 ...

warrant of mar-a-lago will hear arguments over whether to release the affidavit behind it. it's arguably the most important part of that warrant. the doj is fighting its release, citing highly sensitive information tied to a national security investigation. the former president wants it unsealed. we'll explore the implications of today's decision by the judge. we're going to go ahead and start with today's hearing over the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit. msnbc's cal perry is outside the courthouse, ken dilanian also with us, and also with us, phil rucker, and chuck rosenberg, ...

trump has been calling for it to be released on social media. his lawyers have yet to take legal action on this. lawyers for news organizations, including nbc news, are petitions in court today for the affidavit to be made public. dr. fauci will be with me as cdc director dr. walensky announces a major overall at the cdc, acknowledging the agency failed to respond quickly enough to the pandemic over the last three years and did not serve the public. all this as the agency is scrambling to deal with monkeypox, a polio scare in new york and rolling out booster shots in the next coupl...

himes, a member of the house intelligence committee, says that's not the only potential risk here. >> the affidavit contains all sorts of information, including testimony by informants, witnesses, and others that, now that we know that not just donald trump, but the republican party generally, will make threats, include threats on the lives of people, including fbi agents that are involved here, there's an awful lot of risk. >> so it would be unsealed or could be kept seal, but there is a third option for the judge. that would be releasing it with redactions. the doj says if they red...

releasing it would do grave damage to their investigation. but here's the thing, there really isn't a lot of specific precedent here. a former president of the united states has never had their home searched by the fbi. a former president of the united states has never taken classified materials home and then not given them back. a former president of the united states has then never gone on to publicly attack the fbi and the d.o.j., putting the departments and the individual law enforcement officers and officials who work there in grave personal danger. that is to say the public int...