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
exceptional leaders, men like ronald reagan who wouldn t let america be pushed around. in the midst of simmering tensions with the soviet union, reagan went to the communist strong hold, berlin. and reminded them who ran the world. general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [cheers and applause] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [cheers and applause] history has always shown us strong leaders calm us down in times of fear like george w. bush after 9/11. i can hear you. [laughter] [applause] i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you. and the people. [cheers] and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [cheers and applause] jesse: joe biden is not that guy. we knew joe was a bad student but i guess he flunked history, too. biden is dragging us kicking and screaming back to the fo
merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president pieden s classified documents that were found. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. the special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department. earlier president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered in a second location at his wilmington, delaware, home. the president said the materials were in his locked garage. his lawyers said another document was found in a room in the house. just days ago the white house revealed the first case. the president s attorneys found classified d
will: growing number texas, fall basically meant football season, but i lived up here for a good 15 years and the northeast does fall right. i mean the weather, the leaves obviously but then what we just did, the apples and apple sigh darling stone i don t think i ever had an apple cider doughnut before moving up here. rachel: really? will: no, the cake doughnut not so popular. it s good. rachel: it s one of the benefits of i grew up in arizona where you just had two seasons, hot and not so hot. here you have four seasons and the fall is a real thing and unlike in wisconsin, you re right, up here in the northeast, it lingers. it s a long season and really beautiful and it s so great to see the leaves and as we had the food and colors, it s awesome. todd: at reason fall is great in new york city, autumn in new york, you mention the word linger. what doesn t linger in the fall is horrific smells that fill the entire city scape during the summer. they go away as temperature
distinction, actually goes to the heart of the difference between the u.s. and and israel on this. israel s fear is that by the time iran actually got to a nuclear weapon it would be too late to stop it so they have been conducting sabotage operations, assassination toss slow the enrichment of uranium. president biden has said and said again today a diplomatic solution is the best way to get this done. that s why he s trying to restart the 2015 agreement. the problem is he s been trying that for 18 months now and the iranians aren t playing and it s not clear at this point whether there s really any hope left that they would get into that agreement. very significant moment right now, the concern that the u.s. and israel and some of the other states in the region, the saudis, the united arab emirates have as far as iran is concerned hovering over these talks. very important. kaitlan collins is our chief white house correspondent. you were there in the room. what was your t