plan to assert the will, usurp the will of the american people and remain in power. it was an explosive prime time event. the house select committee held its eighth public hearing, laying out what former president trump did and did not do while a mob of his supporters storm the capitol on january 6th. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, july 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. we have a lot to get to this morning. including president joe biden testing positive for covid. the president is said to be experiencing mild symptoms, we ll talk it a medical expert about this later in the show, and provide an update on the president s condition. but we begin with last night s dramatic january 6th hearing. we learned that as violence raged on capitol hill, former president trump sat cloistered in a private dining room watching as as the chaos unfolded. using never before seen evidence and testimony, the committee laid out the case that trump no
releasing damning new testimony from an attorney in trump s white house. in a tease of sorts for next week s hearing watch this in our next hearing on thursday, the select committee will examine president trump s relentless effort on january 6th and in the days beforehand to pressure vice president pence to refuse to count lawful electoral votes. as a federal judge has indicated, this likely violated to federal criminal statutes. to. and that s heating up the comment, the committee s newest bombshell, a portion of the deposition from former white house lawyer, eric herschmann, who describes a colorful conversation the day he had after the insurrection, with lawyer john eastman. the lawyer wrote memos arguing the vice president could in fact overturn the election. he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia, and preserving something, eventually, for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your effing mind? i said, i only want to hear two words coming ou
and later in a video message, biden reassured americans. i appreciate your inquiries and i m doing well, there is a lot of work to be done and i continue to get it done, and in the meantime thanks for your concern. keep the faith. it is going to be okay. the white house says biden will isolate for at least five days according to cdc guidelines and leave isolation only when he receives a negative test. and first lady jill biden tested negative yesterday for the virus. physician and fellow at brookings institution dr. patel, an msnbc medical corrector and a former obama white house medical policy director, doctor, thank you for joining us. certainly significant news. this is something that many felt was inevitable. that there were choices, with the public, the president has been traveling and the tenor
that argument. so, biden s numbers are terrible here. he s being blamed for a lot of this. and so republicans here are tying the governor and every other democrat to the problems in the nevada economy which, of course, as you alluded to stephanie they are worse than most places because we are still a one trick pony with being reliant on those few miles callous vegas boulevard south a las vegas strip border those republicans offering a different economic solution? i get it, things are really painful right now and biden is the guy in the white house. but come november, the issues that plague our economy supply chain issues in china, the war in ukraine they are not going away. so whatever republicans offering other than don t vote for biden, he is a [inaudible] ? oh, you want substance in a political campaign, stephanie? exactly. of course they have no answers.
president biden is planning to go to saudi arabia to address oil and gas next month. there are a lot of democrats angry with him. because it is saudi arabia that s committed all sorts of atrocities. is it the right, practical move for biden to go there? yes, we wish we were completely independent but it s not like we can turn the spigot on and produce, produce, produce. we need these prices to go down tomorrow. is he making the right move talking to saudi arabia next month? i don t think he s making the right move making it such a public discussion well, he s not going in secret. i hope, but remember when president trump, went hat and in hand to try to get the saudis to basically because oil prices had collapsed, and we are suffering as a result of it. we cannot ignore the huge impact that opec has on energy prices. but by the same token the message to american domestic producers needs to be more