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
tampering. cnn s ryan nobles starts off our coverage this morning. reporter: new information about the january 6 committee s star witness cassidy hutchinson. sources tell cnn that hutchinson was one of the two examples that liz cheney used to show trump s allies were putting pressure on former staffers to stay loyal to the former president . our committee commonly asks witnesses whether they have been contacted by any of their former colleagues or anyone else who attempted to influence or impact their testimony. reporter: witness intimidation among the growing list of potential crimes the committee believes trump and his top advisers could be at the center of. it is a very serious issue and i would imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and would take that very seriously as well. reporter: but trump and his allies are pushing back, attacking hutchinson and questioning clerd redibility. meanwhile the committee issuing a subpoena to pat cipollon
move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the country s biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of high gas prices, high airfare, and mass cancellations across the country. the july fourth getaway is under way it is unclear how far people will get. nearly 50 million navigating clogged airports and roads gas prices down slightly, still painfully high for so many americans tracking it all for us tonight, tom costello who starts us off. reporter: friday night and america s july 4th getaway looks dicey. critical airports up and down the east coast in ground stops with severe thunderstorms from or
world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news our sunday the supreme court is asking maryland officials to stop a protest outside of justices houses. in a letter to gary governor larry hogan, the court-martial says maryland law prohibits assembly quote, with another in a manner that perception a person s right to tranquility in a person s home. demonstrators have been ongoing since the decision to end roe was leaked in may. it comes as the battle for abortion rights intensifies. president biden is facing pressure from his fellow gov devin democrats to act. the president meeting with a group of governors yesterday promising to protect a woman s right to choose. also, new today in the january 6th investigation, nbc news confirming reports a catch cassidy hutchison, former aide to mark meadows, was the recipient of a message the committee revealed this week, as evidence of possible witness tampering. of which urging her to quote,
Welcome to Sunday Morning futures. Im maria bartiromo. Saboteurs in america piling on, Indiana Semitism rages in america, in some cases why outside agitator ors inside the country. But joe biden waits ten days to speak out against it, then claims islamophobia is just as big a problem right now. There should be no place on any campus, no if place in america for antisemitism or threats of violence against jewish students. This is no place for hate speech or violation of any we kind whether its Indiana Semitism, islamophobia or discrimination against arabamericans or palestinianamericans. Its simply wrong. Maria coming up, the woman who first exposed the antisemitism on College Campuses, new york congresswoman Elise Stefanik on federal funding of colleges in the future and who the real agitators are today. Then, as america declines, prosecutors target one man, president donald trump, on trial. Efforts to muddy up 45 with Salacious Headlines and insider testimony, yet critics say still no