still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
lifted from his tune haters going to hate writing quote at present the court is not saying that brayham can never, ever, ever get his case back in court, but for now we have got problems, and the court is not sure brayham can solve them. the judge concludes at least for the moment defendants have shaken off this lawsuit. now you know that old joke that says news anchors sitting behind a desk are not even wearing pants. well last night, that turned out to be true. the nba on tnt posted a clip of their twitter page of shaq walking to the anchor desk before the start of the show, in just his briefs. it s safe to say that the former nba star dressed in shoes and just the top half of his suit. he gave his co-hosts a bit more than they bargained for. i hope donny doesn t do that today on morning joe. that does it for me and way too early. coming up on morning joe, breaking news, a u.s. drone strike targets the isis militant known as jihadi john. now we re trying to confirm if, in fac
in seven, three-hour debates barack obama will not have a leg to stand on. it s president obama we got to be talking about. he has unveiled himself as a president that s not the right person to lead this country. our only opponent is barack obama and we need to come out of this process remembering beating him is what we collectively have to do. in the only veiled reference to their feud this week gingrich poked fun at himself for a now familiar word first used in the new york times interview of mitt romney. i sometimes get accused of using language that s too strong so i ve been standing here editing. i m very concerned about not appearing to be zany. but last night even the wedge issue that has dominated romney s attacks on gingrich over the last week, paul ryan s medicare plan and his deal with
reorganizes companies, there are layoffs. and the issue of the freddie mac money, gingrich says, well, i ll give that money back if you, you know, restore the jobs that you had as part of bain capital. a lot of conservatives say laying people off of companies to make them stronger is the core of capitalism so gingrich allowed himself a nice retort instead of thinking through what damage that could do. like you said he later regretded it. today i feel like the mitt romney campaign is acting like they are the front-runner. they got a huge endorsement, nikki haley, south carolina governor. she is already on this morning on fox explaining why she did it. today is the day that i am throwing all of my support behind mitt romney for president. why? you know, this was something that when i look at the focus of what every family cares about it s jobs, the economy, and spending. what it comes down to is how do we get every person a job? how do we make sure our economy gets back ontrack?
now, you got a taste of ron paul s when ron paul has a view that is sort of out of the conservative mainstream on foreign policy, think of the best of ron paul from last night. take a listen. why were we flying a drone over iran? why do we have to bomb so many countries? we need to only go to war with a declaration of war and carelessly flouting it and starting these wars so often. everybody wants to be a powerful executive and run things. i, as a president, wouldn t want to run the world. the executive branch spends the money and tough gravel to the executive branch. favorite supreme court justice? from my point, they are all good and they are all bad, because my country ron paul was very animated. i get the sense that the romney i get the sense that the romney strategy is the better ron paul does, the happier they are in iowa. is that fair? i think there is well, i think there are a lot of voters that may have problems with newt