trump s inner circle seemed to understand was completely illegal. also tonight, it s right out in the open now. new evidence of the violence and menace at theeart of today s maga driven republican party. but first i want to show you a bizarre moment from the 2020 news worm hole you probably don t remember. here? here. the electors are here. they ve been checked in. they re also electors, not all all 16 electors are going to be vote in the electoral college but these are the rest of the electors. the official sealed document and certificate of the electors are here trying to do their constitutional duty. i understand. the constitutional duty requires them to be at the senate chamber today at 2:00 p.m. now, what you just watched was a group of people claiming to be official electors from the swingy swing state of michigan on december 14, 2020 demanding to be allowed in to participate in the electoral college process despite the fact that joe biden won mi
we ll have more in a moment. the revelation comes the same day that the january 6th committee said it may delay further hearings after the one scheduled tomorrow. the reason, according to one of its members, a deluge of new evidence, in his words. he didn t elaborate, saying that only the new information goes beyond what we learned about yesterday, the existence of a documentary crew s interview with the former president and his family recorded before and after january 6th. those recordings have been turned over to the committee. the report of federal subpoenas comes a day after we learned two vital pieces of evidence. first was testimony that directly linked the former president to the plot. what did the president say when he called you? essentially, he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the resul
new report this morning that accuses the secret service of deleting text messages related to the attack on the capitol after they were requested by oversight officials. and new reporting that all but confirms that donald trump will run for president again. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 15th. we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have you both on board this morning. joe, we re going to be looking at, obviously, what is going on abroad with president biden and his meeting with abbas, but let s begin with the secret service, accused of deleting text messages that could be critical to investigating the eve events of the insurrection. how could they be deleted? the dhs inspector general writes, after his office requested full electronic records for an evaluation of the capitol attack, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th
ballot. that s true. but he is casting a pretty big shadow as he continues to endorse some, it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, more on that in just a moment. and the timing will be pretty interesting here. it isn t just post january 6th. it s post the first series of january 6th hearings. we ll see whether it impacted voters and which way it did. it hasn t seemed to impact the platforms, though, of candidates in several swing states. some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims and there is a whole slate of them in arizona who are running for top positions like governor and attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential office holders for those who run elections. also closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed an eric. okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt both claim trump meant them and trump for his part has yet to clarify, now, on election night. it s
backed by the former president in his state senate race. some of those very same candidates are alsobeing supported controversially by democrats hoping to run against more extreme opponents in the fall. all of this, with inflation and fears of recession as a backdrop. president biden s recent legislative actions and foreign policy decisions on the table, and the midterm elections now just 90 days away. cnn s john king is over tracking all the important races and trends. let s check in with you first. so john, missouri polls are just closing. as we know, the former president caused a lot of confusion in his senate endorsement of two people named eric, both running for the same office. how is that race shaping up? yeah, anderson, the fact that we are talking about missouri is actually the story. in the sense that this is a retirement republic in government, roy blunt, with the wind at the republicans back, they should be a safe seat pull for republicans. but as you noted, t