hello and welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing your day with us. polling out of pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. an important read of your midterm move 15 days before we count your votes plus a disturbing reality check what democracy looks like in 2022. armed vigilantes dawning tactical gear patrolling a ballot drop box in arizona and a vow and warning from liz cheney. the promise, that if donald trump testifies the january 6th committee won t let him turn it into a circus. the warning in her view nominating trump would equal the death of the gop as we know it. i think that the party has either got to come back from where we are right now which is a dangerous and toxic place or the party will sprsplinter and there will be a new conservative party that rises and if donald trump is the nominee of the republican party, the party will shatter and there will be a conservative party that rises in its place. up first, just releasing right now cnn battle groun
a to do list including sop of the most precedent setting decisions as they prepare to present closing arguments. add to that list what to do with the mountain of evidence they have accumulated specifically about donald trump s role, hands-on role as the driving force behind the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. one that would ultimately endanger his own vice president and members of congress. here s what committee chairman bennie thompson said about this when speaking to reporters on tuesday. i think now that the department of justice is being proactive, i think it s time for the committee to determine whether or not the information can be beneficial to that investigation. so thompson added in that press avail that the committee will issue an interim report in october followed by a final report by the committee at the end of the year. all the vital work by the the select committee happens as the existential threat to democracy posed by trump and his big lie, a threa
pressure to turn on the former guy. mitch mcconnell s moment of truth. he admits the republicans may not win the senate, do you too can do this quality. in other words, folks like this. i ve never really felt a wise societies responsibility to take care of other people s children. one time science of the man came from apes. if that s true, why are there still layups? yes, and it, you should be worried. i am michael steele in for my friend jonathan capehart. and this is a sunday show. the sunday. donald trump is still trying to play the victim after the fbi searched his home in mar-a-lago. he is threatening to file a major motion pertaining to the fourth amendment, which prohibits unusual search and seizure. meanwhile, a federal judge has given the doj until thursday to submit proposed redactions for the affidavit used to authorize the fbi search. the trump team is also considering releasing surveillance video of the search. but the doj is concerned about the safety of a
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
the bureau seized his passports. cbs anchor norah o donnell tweeting according to a doj official, the fbi is not in possession of former president trump s passports, trumpet accuse the fbi of stealing it, three passports during the search of his mar-a-lago home. the orangemen is forced to correct the record with his spokesman posting the email that backs him up, proving the agency removed his travel documents from mar-a-lago and would be returning them. media is also ramping up their good versus evil game. and i would say to our friends who are watching us today, vote as if your life depends on it, if kevin mccarthy threatened the possible next speaker of the house, threatened an attorney general, and says, you d better lay off trump or else are we going to survive this? i don t know. the hopeful part of this is that america does have resilience and we do get over moments like this. and remember how this raid was urgently needed to protect national security? turns