move in the middle east this morning. he began a meeting with the prime minister of israel just a few moments ago. we re following that. a news conference is set to begin in about an hour. we ll be monitoring. of course, all of this happening ahead of tomorrow s unprecedented, direct flight to saudi arabia. good morning. a lot to cover this morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 14th. joe is off. later this hour, we ll speak with capitol police sergeant gonell, who was forced to retire after the injuries he sustained by the pro-trump mob on january 6th. he s testified before the committee. on tuesday, he embraced one of the rioters and accepted his apology. ahead this morning, former oath keeper spokesman jason van tatenhove, who testified before the committee on tuesday, will also be our guest. he broke from the group in 2017 and is now speaking out about why. willie. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with the latest on the january 6th investigat
new report this morning that accuses the secret service of deleting text messages related to the attack on the capitol after they were requested by oversight officials. and new reporting that all but confirms that donald trump will run for president again. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 15th. we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have you both on board this morning. joe, we re going to be looking at, obviously, what is going on abroad with president biden and his meeting with abbas, but let s begin with the secret service, accused of deleting text messages that could be critical to investigating the eve events of the insurrection. how could they be deleted? the dhs inspector general writes, after his office requested full electronic records for an evaluation of the capitol attack, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th
it s subway s biggest refresh yet. welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 in the morning in los angeles. 9:00 a.m. here on the east coast. as we begin our fourth hour of morning joe. i ll willie geist and let s dive right in with a new development surrounding the fbi search of president trump s mar-a-lago home in florida. they have until thursday to provide a rezakted copy of the affidavit and the former president is hinting at taking more legal action. senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has the latest. reporter: former president trump now teasing what he calls a major legal motion. he and his attorneys saying they plan to ask for a third party, a so-called special master to review what was taken by the fbi during their search of mar-a-lago. pointing to the fourth amendment which protects from unreasonable searches and seizures. one of the benefits of a special master, if the master agree with this, is we could stop the doj in their tracks when it comes
president, for example. how would trump know giuliani was drunk? i mean, does this seem like a drunk person to you? tony blinken or how is that guy a general? all the networks, wow. all the networks. whew. i know prince andrew is very questionable now. i never went out with him. ever. never had a drink with him. never was with a woman or a young girl with him. no, i m a functioning i m probably shut up. you are a [ bleep ]! all right, rudy, hold that thought. right? how do you know? what s the steering wheel? what is that? please let the story speak for itself. what was he doing? willie, i don t what was that? should have arrested him for a dui for that move, just all over the road. good lord. [ laughter ] it is one of those how did i miss these clips? the story will speak for itself, joe. yeah, but it s not like you can just sit there and go, bitcoin took a 15% i mean, willie, that s crazy, crazy stuff. when you see it all in one place,
january 6th, gas prices have doubled, drug o.d.es have reached their highest point ever come of the u.s. economy is careening toward the devastatind scariest and least noteworthy of all, this country has never in its history been closer to a nuclear war. if the other networks cannot be bothered to cover any of that tonight, instead they ve interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to bring you yet another extended prime time harangue from nancy pelosi and liz cheney about donald trump and qanon. the whole thing is insulting. in fact, it s deranged and we are not playing along. this is the only hour on an american news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. they are lying and we are not going to help them do it. what we will do instead is try to tell you the truth. we ve attempted to do that since the day this happened. we hated seeing vandalism at the u.s. capitol year and a half ago and we said so at the time, but we did not think it was an insurrec