we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
So many ways to look at this. Because you asked about sean, thats one way. Another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the United States, and how he has learned from the First Six Months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. People who know him, who are new yorkers. And are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. Were going to talk much more about that. Jen palmieri, white house comes director for President Obama and of course, you will know her from the Hillary Clinton campaign where she also served chief of communications there. Jen, thanks for joining us. Give us your reaction to this. All right. Can jen . Can you hear me . All right. Were going to try to work out the connection with jen palmieri, well bring her in soon as we have her. Going to scaramucci, and im sure sean believes that hes not the right guy for the job. And hed been we were seeing him sidelined
Evidence to support their allegations. Including naming over two dozen witnesses each. Unfortunately, the limited investigation that was conducted by the fbi failed to interview any one of the witnesses these two women identified who could support her account. Let me say that again. They refused to investigate, to talk with any of the 24 witnesses that could have supported their accounts. Mr. President , i think its important to remember why were here today. Were here to determine whether judge kavanaugh has demonstrated the impartiality, the temperament, the even handedness thats needed to serve on this Great High Court of our land. If confirmed, he will join eight
other individuals who are charged with deciding how the laws of our land are interpreted and applied. He would be a deciding vote on the most important issues affecting our country. And every american for generations to come. Mr. President , Madam President , based on all of the factors we have before us, i do not believe j
long time. it wouldn t matter who is in the position right now, he would be, or she would be suffering because of the mood of the nation. certainly would. again, i understand donny s point and hear it from a lot of democrats. mike talks about ptsd that the united states is going through. this has been we ve had a rough five, six, seven years. i will just say, though, asda as dana points out, mika, whether it is reagan, whether it is clinton, whether it is obama, you have, in all three, gifted communicators, people who knew how to connect with the american people. they all got crushed in their midterms. of course, the end of that story is, of course, barack obama easily won re-election two years later. bill clinton easily won re-election two years later. ronald reagan, who a lot of people were saying was too old for the job, won 49 states two
sphere. it also is this notion that the president really doesn t understand or care to understand that he did anything wrong in that ukraine phone call that he calls beautiful and perfect. well, it was so beautiful and perfect, he just did it again, as dana points out, on the white house lawn, only this time he was imploring somebody who was not a friend. ukraine, at least, is an ally. this is not a friend. and imploring them to effectively provide his opposition research for his political campaign. let s talk about the vice president, dana, because the washington post says president trump told vice president pence not to attend the ukranian president s inauguration, which he was going to do, and it was this crucial time when the newly elected leader was obviously looking for signs of support from the u.s., and then the president, as we know, would go on to hold up the aid to ukraine