good to be with you. i m katy tur do not travel to russia. that is the message today from the state department and the white house reiterating that it is not safe right now for americans in that country. the white house says it is still trying to establish consular contact with evan gershkovich. he was arrested overnight. the 31-year-old reporter for the wall street journal said he was not spying, denying guilt in a court proceeding this morning. gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on claims of spying since the cold war. matt bodner who was recently based is here to explain who gershkovich says they caught him doing red handed, and a former member of the biden inner circle to walk us through what the white house is likely doing behind the scenes as this marks what is considered a new low in the already ice cold relationship between moscow and washington joining me now from london for the reporting, nbc news reporter, matt bodner and mike memoli joins us as
hearing. cassidy hutchinson testified that donald trump and chief of staff mark meadows ignored warnings about potential violence before the attack and did nothing to stop it once the attack was under way. according to hutchinson, trump knew there were weapons in the crowd but during his speech at the ellipse, still ordered his supporters to march to the capitol. and new details about efforts close to trump to intimidate witnesses who have cooperated in the congressional investigation. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, june 29th. it seems that history bends every day this week. mika, we, of course, had the supreme court decision last friday. and yesterday, had the most testimony on capitol hill since watergate, what was your takeaway? well from my perspective, it was revealed, exposed really that the men around trump are weak, feckless cowards who had this pathetic need to be close to a failed president. and they almost destroyed our democracy. and
is directly refuted by david pecker, assuming he s going to repeat what he said to the southern district of new york, and it is laid out directly. so those two things are really important pieces that the manhattan district attorney could be not just pursuing but really have in pocket to present a strong case to the grand jury and then of course ultimately if there s an indictment, to a trial jury. that s what s going on with the manhattan d.a., this is the wall street journal reporting. as we have been talking about, this could strengthen a case if they re actually pursuing it let s talk about jack smith and the special counsel investigation. getting drips and drabs of news out of that. donald trump is appealing the order from a federal judge to force a lot of his senior aides and staffers to testify about the lead up and the day of january 6th. right, this is the key information. let s look at mark meadows, specifically it was cassidy hutchinson who, of course, you ll recall, wa
of high ranking administration and senior white house staff including mr. meadows, with white house council lawyers and with mr. tony ornato who served as the chief of staff. also worked with on a daily basis with members of secret service posted in the white house. in short, miss hutchinson was in a position to know a great deal about happenings in the white house. committee also showed how physically close hutchinson was to all the actions in the west wing. her desk was right outside mark meadows office. just down the hall from the oval office. benefit rhodes, a former national security official to president obama gave insight to the kind of access someone in hutchinson s role would have had. i really want to underscore this for your viewers, the role that cassidy hutchinson had, that person would know everything. okay. right. the aides to the chief of
particular, that this has been a devastating presentation of facts, but prosecutors need to look at the other 99.5%. we don t have it the committee does. i assure you that the department of justice eithers that or will get it and will have more than the committee in toward make prosecutorial predictions about witness tampering or sedition or anything else we need to look at all of the evidence. so it s often tempting to know what we have with the stuff that we ve done. the committee has done a good job telling a linear and cogent story. complete a agree with that. before i make a prosecutorial decision, before i know my case can stand up in court i want to see everything, mika. understood. chuck rosenberg and john heilemann, thank you both for being with us early this morning. we have even more from the hearing just ahead, including a remarkable scene in the west wing that cassidy hutchinson