never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
. following word that president biden tested positive for covid this morning. the news is so far is good. less than an hour ago we got the street showing the president at his desk. he said he is doing great and keeping busy. he just got off the phone with lawmakers in pennsylvania. the president had been scheduled to go to philadelphia for a fundraiser, but that had to be canceled. despite the president s tweet the white house says he is experiencing mild symptoms, which according to the white house covid-19 response coordinator, includes some tiredness, a runny nose, and dry cough. we are expecting to hear more from dr. shaw and the white house press secretary when they speak to the media. we know biden is 79 years old and age is a cause for concern with covid. biden is fully vaccinated and boosted twice. he is also been treated with the antiviral paxlovid, which data shows makes people far less likely to develop severe illness. as we saw that picture the president is workin
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white
investigation as the testimony, of course, of them, themselves, as well, giving evidence about the coordination of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, about who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the when things were happening and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside of the white house over those nearly 187 minutes. well over three hours. filling in the gaps. gaps between when donald trump told his supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. now, we know that s the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing and we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then-president trump during those three hours and he knows them quite well. trump s former active chief of staff nick mulvaney, he knows matthew pottinger, one of trump s deputy national security advisors scheduled to t
doug jones who said the problem is that everyone during the 2016 election in the green room would say one thing about the former president before the cameras were rolling and the commercial break, and all the sudden, the lights came on and they said a completely different thing, because it is beneficial to them to say it. was it doug jones who said it? he s absolutely right. doug jones, doug heye, the two dougs, they call themselves douggy fresh, who are sitting behind the cameras right now. it is interesting to me, as somebody who would like to think that if you are asking for the opportunity to lead, then you at least have the wherewithal and confidence and integrity to say, i will tell it like it is. i would hope and, again, i recognize what i am saying, you re probably trickling and going that is not how washington, d. c. works, baby girl. i am saying, that s how it should work and don t call me, baby girl. you call yourself that. that s how this works. i can call m