still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
time. the windchills coming 20 to 65 degrees below zero. alex perez live in chicago. rob marciano timing this out tonight and tomorrow. also tonight, the new video just in. the u.s.-led air strikes against iranian-backed militants. the houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. now firing more than 80 tomahawk cruise missiles, dozens of targets hit. and what the white house is saying tonight about concerns over a wider war. mary bruce with late reporting. new images not seen before from inside the cabin of that alaska airlines flight just moments after the door plug tore off at 16,000 feet, leaving that huge hole in the cabin. the haunting images of what it was like in the rows near that hole in the plane. just three days to go until the iowa caucuses, and this is what they re dealing with. tonight, ron desantis still campaigning. nikki haley had to call off in-person events. donald trump isn t there, but trump does lead in the polls by 30 points there. a win by that margin would
today. bone chilling cold and some seeing temperatures well below 0 and the chill extending to places not used to it. texans hoping to avoid another power crisis as frigid conditions are there. is sunshine state, florida, could see its coldest christmas in more than 30 years. blizzard warnings in effect for more than 10 million people in the upper midwest and great lakes region. those conditions basically snowstorm on steroids. across the country widespread power outages. more than 1 million reported from texas to the east coast. all of this is also causing some chaos for travelers. we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning. we got a text last night saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. no, no, no. this is a mess. the kind of cold that hurts your face. it looks a little chaotic. i m wondering how everyone will make their flight. the wind is pretty brutal. i felt like i got frostbite instantly. at the hotel they had the screen of f