>> democratic congressman jamie raskin and eric swalwell going after republicans for their efforts to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress. we'll have more from that partisan vote in the house in just a moment. it comes as donald trump will be on capitol hill today to meet republican lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face meeting with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. and also ahead we'll bring you the latest from the g7 summit in italy where support for ukraine is a top priority for president biden and other world leaders. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this thursday, june 13th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we'll begin this morning overseas where president biden is in italy for the first day of the g7 summit. he arrived last night around 11 p.m. local time and will now attend multiple working sessions throughout today. afterwards, he'll meet with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and sign a ten-year security agreement between the u.s. and ukraine. "the washington post" reports the deal will serve as the framework for a long-term effort to help ukraine develop its armed forces. according to the paper's reporting the agreement aims to commit future u.s. administrations to supporting ukraine even if former president donald trump wins this fall's election. now, this is the third g7 summit to be held since vladimir putin launched a full-scale invasion of ukraine back in february of 2022. yesterday russian missiles slammed an apartment bloc in the central part of ukraine killing at least nine people and injuring almost 30 years. president zelenskyy said his nation must work with its partners to strengthen its air defenses. joining us now white house bureau chief for "the washington post,". so good to see you this morning. so we went through some of the details set to be signed later today, but tell us more about what we've learned, what this says about the united states' commitment to ukraine and what else should we be looking for from italy in the g7 today? >> you mentioned the goal of the ten year security agreement is to show ukraine the united states will continue to stand with that country despite what might happen in the u.s. domestic political sphere. and so donald trump is looming over this agreement. he's looming over the g7 meeting. there's a question as to whether or not this will be president biden's last g7. he's up for re-election in five months, and there's a major fear in europe that donald trump could upend and undo a lot of the things president biden wants to do and wants to accomplish on the global stage. and so biden has to reassure his political allies and reassure ukraine specifically that all the things he's saying, all the commitments he's making will withstand the future, which could be uncertain given the polling we see here in our domestic politics and the fact that donald trump has a good chance of being the next president. and so he's trying to secure as much as he can while in office and trying to reassure his partners that domestic politics in the u.s. will not make it difficult for him to fulfill the promises that he's making while he's in europe. >> one more beat on the g7. it comes days after elections in europe showed real advance by far-right parties in a number of nations. what's the mood in the summit in terms of where democracies stand globally? >> president biden tells a story about the first g7 where he met with leaders and said america is back after four years of trump, and a lot of leaders looked at him skeptical. president trump said how long is america back. and so these european nations are now dealing the far-right trumpian march we saw in the u.s., and they're worried that democracy, the things they stand for, the things they're going to put out in a communique from the g7, those things could be hard to uphold if we have a margin of the far right not only in europe but also with trump coming back into power. so there's a lot of fear. there's a lot of uncertainty. there's a sense that the trump-like forces existing on the global stage in places like italy, france, those places will move more to the right, move further away from democracy, move more in an authoritarian kind of impulse, if that happens it'll be difficult for any of the things they're talking about and discussing to stand for the long-term. >> let's switch to domestic politics now. we covered this week on "morning joe" your reporting how republicans have been using misleading videos from a number of events including last week in france to attack biden or depict him as old or unable to do the job. talk about reporting you've gotten from both sides of the aisle. >> we looked at videos that started today go viral while president biden was in france last week, and a lot of them were deceptively edited, manipulated in a way to make it look like biden was old. i mean he is old, but make it look he was out of his depth, that he was addled infirm. we looked at the full context of videos edited and it's clear this is a stake hold on attacks on biden. disseminating it online in a video clip shortened and taken out of context in a way to make biden look bad. that is something we saw even as president biden was representing the united states in france but it's also a part of a staple of how republicans are attacking biden. they want people to see him as old. they want people to see him ozout of his depth and weak. we're going to see these videos over and over again. they're not necessarily the a.i. generated deep fakes, but what people are calling cheap fake, just manipulated videos, edited videos that make it look like something happened that didn't happen and don't require a lot of technological prowess. all you have to do is start a video at a certain moment, or stop it at a certain moment and take it out of context, and that is way republicans are attacking joe biden. both sides are dealing with this and trying to figure out how to navigate a world where these videos go wide across the internet before anyone can fact check them and they start to spread and people start to come up with their own conclusions about what happened. in most cases these are these innocuous moments that are in most cases conspiracy theories. >> really important to shine a spotlight on that. white house bureau chief for "the washington post." thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. meanwhile, former president trump will be in washington today where he's set to meet with republican lawmakers from both sides of the hill. the meetings will be allegedly focused on policy zooming in on border security and an american first policy. while trump's visit is being presented as a positive development by some in the senate leadership senator susan collins, lisa murkowski, and mitt romney will not be attending this meeting mchlg all three claim they have conflicting plans. they've been frequent trump critics. senator mitch mcconnell will attend giving his first face-to-face with trump since 2020. take a listen to what the minority leader said yesterday when asked if he would confront the former president. >> i said three years ago right after the capitol was attacked that i would support our nominee regardless of who it was including him. i've said earlier this year i support him. he's earned the nomination by the voters all across the country. and of course i'll be at the meeting tomorrow. >> so there you go. meanwhile, the republican controlled house narrowly voted to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress yesterday for refusing to turn over audio of president joe biden's closed door interview about his handling of classified documents. by a 216-207 vote with all but two republicans voting in favor of charging garland the house advanced to what largely amounts to a political exercise. you'll recall that in a february report department of justice special counsel robert hur shared the findings of his investigation into biden's handling of classified documents and declined to prosecute the president. the probe included a lengthy interview with biden where hur claimed the president demonstrated some memory lapses. in march garland complied would a republican issued subpoena to turn over transcripts of that interview only for those same gop lawmakers to then claim that the transcripts alone were insufficient. in defending his decision to not also turn over the audio, garland has argued that it could have a chilling effect on future doj cases if witnesses fear that their interviews could be broadcasted to congress and then onto the public. the white house has also asserted executive privilege over the audio, meaning garland is unlikely to be prosecuted for ignoring recent subpoenas for the tapes. in a statement following yesterday's vote, garland called the move deeply disappointing that this house of representatives has turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan 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to the beginning of the summit, which will kick off as it always does with the classic family picture of the seven world leaders and couple others will pose for photographs and then they'll move behind closed doors for series of meetings. the highlight of course today president biden meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the two will take some questions from the press and will announce further security guarantees for ukraine. we will certainly keep an eye on that and keep you posted as our show continues. but turning home now, today senate democrats are expected to force a vote to enshrine protections for access to invitro fertilization. the procedural vote would need 60 votes in favor to pass. it is not expected to meet that threshold. democrats are pushing what they call a comprehensive package of fertility bills that includes protecting ivf access and making the procedure more affordable. republicans called the vote politically motivated and unnecessary. instead, the gop yesterday tried to pass their own ivf legislation. their bill was much narrower in scope and does not address potential legal consequences surrounding the disposal of nonvinyl nonviable embryos. republicans blocked that bill and called out their republican colleagues. >> this bill is very simple. it establishes a nationwide right to ivf and eliminates barriers for millions of families looking to ivf to start a family -- to start and grow a family. protecting ivf like protecting contraception is not a no-show vote -- sorry. protecting ivf like protecting contraception is not a show vote. it's a show us who you are vote, and the republicans are afraid to show us who they are on this issue. >> now, this is the second set of votes democrats have orchestrated ahead of the election to get republicans on the record about this issue. last week they forced a vote on a bill that would have ensured nationwide access to oncontraception. meanwhile, southern baptist the country's largest southern protestant denomination forced to a vote to oppose ivf. the resolution proposed call on congregants to, quote, reaffirm the unconditional value to right to life for every human being including those in embryonic stage and only utilize reproductive technologies tint consistent with the affirmation. it does criticize the destruction of embryos condemning the ivf process as commonly practiced. earlier this week donald trump addressed the southern baptist convention and vowed to stand side by side with a group that wants abortion to be eradicated entirely. last night the biden campaign reacted to the vote saying if trump returns to power they'll, quote, put women and their family's most personal health care decisions in the hands of right-wing extremists. next up, we'll turn to sports and pay tribute to the passing of an nba legend. plus, highlights from an electric game three between the dallas mavericks and the boston celtics in the nba finals. those stories plus a check on the 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hamas has taken in the past. the terror group denies that claim. during a news conference in doha yesterday secretary of state antony blinken expressed his frustration over the negotiations calling some of hamas' proposed changes unworkable. >> hamas waited nearly two weeks and then proposed more changes, a number of which go beyond positions that it previously had taken and accepted. as a result, you heard the prime minister say this, the war that hamas started on october 7th of this barbaric attack on israel and on israeli civilians will go on. more people will suffer. palestinians will suffer, more israelis will suffer. it's time for the haggling to stop and a cease-fire to start. it's as simple as that. >> joining us now, former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the united nations, hagar chemali. she also worked at the treasury department and the nsc. let's talk about the cease-fire deal. blinken showing some frustration there. give us your analysis of that, and from what you know of the region, do you think hamas even has an incentive to ever get to yes for a cease-fire? >> so you're asking such a good question because ultimately what we're seeing play out in the public here is what happens when you negotiate with a terrorist group. and the united states knows that and israel knows that. at the end of the day you're not talking about a rational state actor. terrorist groups are group of thugs and criminals who have literally have nothing to lose and we've already seen hamas' leader come out and say multiple times. there's been multiple references the latest leaked correspondence where they were saying, sinwar is saying they have them right where they want them. the problem when you deal with and negotiate with terrorist groups and this is the problem for any situation is they might agree to something but then they turn their back on it, and that's because they will stomp their feet and do whatever they need to do in order to achieve their ideological and political goals. the thing is you have now an increasing number of gaza civilians and palestinians who are angry at hamas for the danger hamas has put them in. they saw that ever so clearly with the fire that ignited in rafah and also the death that took place during the israeli rescue operation that rescued four hostages. you have an increasing number of israeli hostage families increasing pressure on the israeli government. you have the g7 backing the israeli cease-fire proposal. you have the u.n. backing it now, which really reflects a global consensus. and you have things moving towards the israeli saudi mobilization deal which as well reflects a desire to move forward. and at the end of the day even when it comes to terrorists or dictators, by the way, they do at the end of the day have to respond somewhat to their own people in particular, so i have some hope it will move forward even with all this happening. >> let's look at the other side of it now, the israeli side. there's been open speculation including at times from president biden president netanyahu might think it's in his own interest to keep the war going. they have agreed at least in part to this deal, at least they're saying they do. do you believe them? if hamas comes to the table and says we'll take it will israel will, too? >> i do think if hamas comes to the table and says they'll take it israel will too because the u.s. has accepted this deal and israel has made sure to repeat this is an israeli proposal. those talks in the negotiations are very unique. and one of the things you notice in the israeli government in general their leaders are not exactly disciplined on sharing the same message, on being on the same talking point. and netanyahu absolutely has political goals here in mind, but even president biden himself said that netanyahu is making decisions based on his own political survival. and so while i would expect that netanyahu himself is also between a rock and a hard place politically. benny gantz, part of his israeli war cabinet has resigned. now you've got netanyahu on shaky ground and benny gantz ha best way to release a large group of hostages. so he's between a rock and a hard place. he has to agree to something. >> lastly, briefly, let's turn to the g7. we've been taking live footage all morning. president biden's meetings have started in earnest. what needs to be accomplished there? >> to be honest, even though we're focused on israel and gaza, the number one thing needs to be ukraine. that is a major affront to global democracy. after china, it is our number one national security concern. that is because we've seen, given the stalling you had in ukraine aid and how long it took for us to be able to send them more, you've seen things really -- ukraine was in a position of strength last year, and things have evened out between ukraine and russia. you want ukraine to be in the strongest position of power for eventual negotiations. when the u.s. leads on that, europe follows. it is going to be very important they stress this, especially after so many leaders have been threatened with far-right populist threats in many of these countries after the eu parliament elections. >> we're seeing footage taken a few moments ago, president biden arriving at the summit in italy. former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n., hagar, thank you, as always. votes to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress. we'll break down that what means and what happens next. coming up on "morning joe," donald trump will head to capitol hill to meet with republican lawmakers in hopes of uniting a divided house and senate behind his policy and agenda, one of retribution. plus, senator brian schatz will be a guest over protections for ivf. plus, academy award winner questlove will join us in studio. you won't want to miss that. 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>> i believe donald trump will go and give his marching orders. there will be those who absolutely sign on and do whatever he asks, and there will be others who will nod and give him lip service and say it was a very productive meeting and leave it there. this is all about what donald trump believes the republican in the house and senate to do for him. what can they do to give him an advantage in the 2024 election? let's talk about the 2024 election. we are two weeks from what will be a significant moment, the debate, when advisors from both campaigns said to me they think that is the moment americans will start paying attention, at least somewhat. what would your counsel be to both men as they prepare? >> huh. i think what both men have to do is realize what their trigger points are and know to keep them in check. that's much easier for president biden who has shown an ability to control himself, unlike the former president. but they each have points where they really know how to -- they get prickly, if you will. it will be donald trump going after president biden's son, most likely, and the president has to have that response there. donald trump, i do believe that president biden will go after donald trump as a convicted felon, as well he should. but i think this is definitely working to biden's benefit because he knows how to hold his tongue a lot better. >> the biden campaign has made it clear that the president will still use the phrase "convicted felon," and some in the camp thinks if he flashed his temper at trump, trump attacking hunter, wouldn't be a bad thing. >> temper is one thing. with biden, sometimes he stumbles along too much when he does it. he has to have one, clear, sharp response. it could be anger. >> who do you think has more to gain or lose from the debate in two weeks? >> i think that this is joe biden's to win. he should win it. if he does, it really discounts a lot of the arguments about him being fit. whereas, donald trump, i think, is just going to be a train wreck. if he is not a train wreck, though, then he's done himself some good, which i -- it will put things in a different perspective, i think, going toward the next debate in july. >> trump finally hitting the campaign trail the next couple of days. president biden returns from europe and largely will shift to debate prep at camp david. it is a big moment indeed. political analyst susan del percio, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this thursday morning. 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