good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, the long awaited deal from negotiators is here. i know it s not seeming like that with all that s swirling around but this is a historic moment and i feel it. reporter: house speaker mike johnson says it is dead on arrival. life-threatening weather, has crews rescuing people amid flooding, and power outages. a deadly drone attack on a base housing u.s. troops in syria. it s the first since the u.s. launched a wave of strikes over the weekend. and in the race for president, new nbc news polling showing president biden s approval rating sinking to a new low, trailing behind former president donald trump in a general election matchup. we begin this morning on capitol hill where senate negotiators have finally released a text of a bill that would provide aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan in exchange for overhauling the nation s immigration system. after weeks of closed door meetings,
but now people aren t so sure. . we re being told that a womantym is pretty much anyone who feels like they re a womanuch . it puts a hand up and goes,i i m a woman. it s an increasingly weirdu and hysterical campaign to make us believe the sky is greesky in and the grass is blue, and that anyone who disagrees is instantly who a bigot. and ironically, it s being led by women who, before all this nonsense, were the leading feminists. people like us women s soccer superstasts.r megan rapinoe. she says excluding trans athletes from women s sports is taking away people s full humanity, really. rapinoe adds that she d welcome a transgender woman replacing a biological female on the u.s. national team. female jusly and conveniently, she said that just as she s retired herself so it wouldn tas she be her plae that would be taken. and of course, we already know what the resuleady knot of repeg those demands would look like. a few years ago, the u.s. women a few s team played fc das
tonight on the reidout the whole thing is ludicrous. to be honest, i don t think they re really into each other. i think it s a publicity stunt. and she is going to use all of this popularity potentially against maga and for democrats. she s got a record of this stuff. oh, no, the right is in full meltdown over it couple taylor swift and travis kelce and when young white wim under 30 trending leftward, the maga right has a reason to be concerned. also, a new investigation revealed prison labor is behind some of the most popular food products that make their way to your dinner table. plus, president biden says he has decided on a response to the deaths of three u.s. soldiers in jordan. the mother of one of those soldiers, specialist breonna moffett, joins me tonight. but we begin tonight with donald trump. the republican front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. the party has put all of their chips behind this man who was found liable for violating
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
to be executed using nitrogen gas a method which the united nations has called cruel and inhumane . smith s adviser said he is absolutely terrified. it will be the state 5 second attempt to execute smith, who was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preachers wife, in a hired killing. for more on this story, i spoke a little earlier to ralph chapoco he s a reporter with it s been just described it s beenjust described his method. that will involve kenneth smith being led into the execution chamber having an airtight mask strapped to his face and a pure nitrogen pumped from a pressurised tank. find from a pressurised tank. and him of effectively from a pressurised tank. fific him of effectively being forced or asked to breathe it in. there have of course been many experts suggesting that one of the problems is this is never been done before. it s interesting, we ve heard from some of your contributors there that the state of alabama is waiting to find out whether or not i