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
supreme court being now felt across the country. this weekend, the conservative leaning high court, dealing a blow to lgbtq rights, while also striking down affirmative action at colleges, as well as killing president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. so, as a result, young americans telling msnbc, their faith in the court is shaken. i don t have a lot of confidence in the supreme court right now. i felt that for quite some time. it s just, all of it is infuriating in that the supreme court will just decide, well, yeah, this does not work and, you know, just no regard for the actual lived experience of people and what this is going to do to people. i am livid. meanwhile, a trump supporter who stormed the capitol on january 6th had two guns and 400 rounds of ammo in his van when he was arrested near former president barack obama s home. nbc news reports, taylor toronto showed up at obama s residence thursday, after former president trump posted screenshots on his tr
contin good afternoon, i m lindsey reiser, in for yasmin vossoughian. president biden says he s not giving up. i believe the court s decision to strike down my student debt relief program was a mistake, was wrong. i m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale. so, we need to find a new way. we re moving as fast as we can. we ll use every tool of our disposal to get you the student debt relief you need and reach your dreams. it s good for the economy it s good for the country, it s going to be good for you. not president unveiling a new plan to help ease student loan debt after the supreme court knocks down one of his signature policies it s just one of a trio of rulings from the conservative court facing backlash today. we are going to be looking into the major decisions of affirmative action lgbtq rights, plus, donald trump on the campaign trail, right now, amid his growing legal woes
who refuses to sell to gay marriage come in a blow to lgbtq rights. here are tonight s headlines. a restriction to the power of the biden administration as the president condemns today s ruling. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. today s decision has closed one path. now we are going to pursue another. a new record for the july 4th holiday. aaa is predicting that nearly 51 million of us in this country will be on the move. tsa and airline safety expect next week. storms will continue into our holiday weekend. john: actors poised to strike. the current contract for the screen actors guild nears expiration, while the writers guild it s day 60 of their strike. we are here is actors today, standing in solidarity with writers. [applause] riots erupted across france, for a third straight night, following the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. and the oscar goes to. alan arkin, little miss sunshine.
investigators. the death toll rising overnight after a russian missile strike on kramatorsk. and another hot and hazy day ahead, millions of people under heat or air quality alerts. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin with new developments in the donald trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. later today jack smith s team will speak to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger as part of their january 6 investigation. you may remember then president trump called raffensperger in january of 2021 to press him to, quote, find the votes needed to win georgia which joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. here is part of that now infamous call. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11 sk1,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and we re also learning that the former attorney rudy giuliani has been interviewed as part of the probe. the meeting between giuliani, his attorney and invest