yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they don t have to be as productive as we are to become the world s largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very i think our openness, our openness to different people, to different ideas, our creativity that comes out of that has been our underlying strength. and i mean, if you think about how did america do so well in high-tech. there are a lot of reasons. a lot of that is in silicon valley, the claim is, the anecdote is that venture capitalists won t back a company unless it has a few east asians involved because we need the diversity of ideas and diversity and our openness, our openness to new ideas has been our huge strength. i do worry given everyth
never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
thanks so much. nice to see you. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. it is something that has never happened before. at least not like this. the fbi searches the home of a former president. so, why? why would a federal judge agree there was probable cause a crime had been committed? what exactly were agents looking for? what is so urgent that merrick garland would sign off on this, assuming he did? i m john berman here with brianna keilar. these are some of the questions we will try to answer this morning. admittedly, some of these questions don t yet have answers. this is what we know so far, early monday morning, federal agents executing a warrant searched donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. we are told this is part of the investigation into the handling of classified documents, taking them from the white house to mar-a-lago. mishandling classified documents, hiding or destroying them, if that is what happened, could absolutely be ag
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
has to be more. if not, this doesn t make any sense. the biden administration is also under pressure amid calls to address why the federal raid was necessary. we have fox team coverage tonight. peter doocy with what biden officials knew about the events. jonathan serrie is at the scene of the raid outside of mar-a-lago. we begin with correspondent david spunt at the justice department with what top law enforcement officials are saying or not saying and some new breakdown of the news. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. i m at the epicenter at the of the investigation into the former president and as you pointed out not saying things are quiet from attorney general merrick garland and fbi director christopher wray across the street at the j. edgar hoover fbi building. both were briefed on this before it happened. they knew well in advance this was going to happen. let s give you a little bit of a timeline how things have played out. had here is what we know. the