emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look right b
behind bars. that sham trial starting today. plus, the ceo of my pillow still propping up fox with his ads. so how much money has mike lindell poured into the fox empire? it s a you ll see first outfront. and a chilling discovery. the fbi arresting a man for trying to bring an explosive onto a plane. the explosives were said to be lining or hidden in the lining of his suitcase. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, taking it directly to putin. russian soldiers whose comrades are dying en masse are tonight appealing directly to the russian president for help. translator: our command has replenished our unit with new mobilized six times now. this is evidence of the incompetence of our superiors and of the whole unit. please help. there is nowhere else to turn. just to break that down, these mobilized men are saying that their unit has been replenished six times. think about all that death. it is horrific. and what is most signifi
what is the white house trying to hide? nothing. someone gave the president a statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. who? so i ve read out the president s statement. i ve read it out yesterday, what he said. he said that he respects or he takes classified information and documents very seriously. that s what he said. he said that he did not know that the records were there. he does not know what s in them. he said that. you heard from him directly on this. and his team has been cooperating fully, fully, and not only that, again, i ll say this, the attorney general said this himself, that he heard from the team shortly after. so we have laid out, laid out, what has occurred here. you ve heard from the white house counsel. i just read the statement from his lawyer. the and, again, you know, we take this very seriously. the president does as well. when will the white house release a log of visitors to the wilmington house? you
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.
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