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
devoutly comes as a government watchdog reveals the secret service erased messages from the day of the insurrection, after investigators asked for them. a 10-year-old girl raped and forced to go across state lines to get an abortion. a former federal judge appointed by george w. bush is now standing up to trump, debunking his election lies point by point. he is my guest. let s go out front. good evening. breaking news. a source telling cnn that a washington police officer has corroborated details regarding the heated exchange the former president had with secret service detail when he was told he could not go to the u.s. capitol in march with the rioters after the rally. according to a source, the officer who was there, in the motorcade, not second hand, he was there, has recounted what he saw to the january 6 committee. you may remember we first heard this was a heated exchange. trump wanted to go, and his detail said that he couldn t. we heard about that from cassidy
cnn hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison camp morata in for fredricka whitfield today okay. the countdown is underway for a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential election. we are four days away from the cnn presidential debate. the first between president biden and former prime president trump of the 2024 race. and the two candidates are preparing for this high-stakes event in very different ways. we re told president biden hunkering down at camp david all weekend reportedly holding intensive prep work and mock debates with a team of advisors. donald trump has spent the weekend on the campaign trail and says he has decided on his vp pick. and that person will join him at thursday s debate. he says, today, trump s supporters hit the sunday political talk shows to give their advice on what you should focus on it, it ll be a great opportunity for president trump to talk about his policies and how his policies when he served as president of this country, we re
A somali man a male in his 20s. We dont know his name or status here in the United States. Wasnt student at ohio state in we do not know. These are coming from Law Enforcement sources. Well have to wait as the investigation goes on but you can be sure, trish, that the investigators, probably led by the fbi, are going through his phone. They will find his home. They will look, go through his computer to get any clue what the motive may have been. Now, at one point in the press conference at Ohio State University, a little over 45 minutes ago, one of the Police Leaders there was asked whether this was an act of terrorism. The answer was, i think we have to consider that it is terrorism. Lets not forget, using a vehicle and a knife is something isis has been promoting for some two years now on its web site, if you dont have a bomb and dont have a gun, use a vehicle, use a knife. Of course the specter of terrorism certainly looms large. But we do not know for sure what the reasoning was. T
Rudy giuliani and in the other corner you have governor mitt romney, outspoken opponent during the campaign called the president elect a phony and a con. Top trump loyalists are not happy about the idea of mitt romney as potential secretary of state. People feel betrayed to think that governor romney who went out of his way to question the character and intellect and the integrity of donald trump now our president elect would be given the most significant cabinet post of all, secretary of state. That is decision only one man can make, president elect donald trump. We dont even know if he voted for donald trump. He and his consultants were awful to donald trump for a year. Bill that is one thing to follow. Mr. Trump sounding off on the recount efforts underway in wisconsin, calling it sad and ridiculous. Martha what a weekend, right . Peter doocy live outside of trump to youer in new york city. So, peter, do we expect we might get a decision on secretary of state or any other post as ea