clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
storm clouds for donald trump. a new report says the manhattan da may file criminal charges against the former president. what prosecutors are offering before making their move. . then bracing for the jobs report. new numbers coming just hours from now. that could sway the fed s fight on inflation. a rampage in germany. a gunman opening fire inside of a church that leaves seven killed. we have the latest on the on going investigation. also, heading to iowa. governor ron desantis is making his first trip to the state today in what could be a major step towards a possible white house run. we re live in des moines. are you ready? folks in hollywood are. red carpet ready for the oscars. who will take home holy wlywood biggest prize? cnn this morning starts right now. everything we just said doesn t feel like a friday, right? very busy friday. we ve been talking about what is going to happen with the former president. but there are a lot of people throwing their hats i
who built those brings in record time, i m send them to the southern border to do the wall. come on, joe, let us get it done. martha: that s a taste of it there. the former president trump heads to iowa monday. iowans like to see the candidates and they re getting a good look in the early going. he s virtually tied with desantis in iowa in terms of favor ability among republicans. more and more we ll see these two on the debate stage in five months, folks. it s far away until it s not. let me tell you, it s not really far away anymore. let s bring in jason chaffetz, joe concha and robert wolf, former economic adviser to president obama. all are fox news contributors. great to have you on set, gentlemen. this does feel like the kickoff. this thing is in motion. i m sure. it s a coincidence that he s going to iowa and nevada. just happened to be in the first four that they get to vote. he s formidable. he had the best election in 2022 with tim scott. i think it shows republ
of russia and he s a unitary decision maker as you know, it has to shake him a little bit. and secondly, the circle around him is shaken by this. and i think that all of that might lead to a bit more of a propensity to come to the negotiating table. let s go all the way out in the circle to beijing. this is important for us to understand how all this is received by president xi. he has watched this buffoonery on the part russia for almost a year and a half. he is losing patience with that situation, knows this could end badly, is concerned about an escalation that cracks the global economy. he will put pressure on putin, i hope. on the other side it s a different burn rate. here it s our patience. how long are we willing to fund and support ukraine? i would argue we ought to make
what happened, but we ve got to go forward on this stuff. we cannot be looking backwards and be mired in the past. president trump was almost singularly focused on our trade relationship with china. he was right about our trade abuses. it was and still is a critical issue. but trump did too little about the rest of the chinese threat. he did not effectively rally our allies against the chinese threat. even the trade deal he signed came up short when china predictably failed to live up to its commitments. he also showed moral weakness in his zeal to befriend president xi, trump congratulated the communist party on its 70th anniversary of conquering china. that sent a wrong message to the world. chinese communism must be