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
that is all for yesterday. i am john berman. thank you so much for watching. the news continues now, so let s turn over to the source with kaitlan collins, which starts right now. tonight, straight from the source, an extraordinary moment at a contentious hearing on capitol hill. mark zuckerberg standing up to apologize after he and other tech execs were accused of having blood on their hands. apparent that he apologized to is here tonight. plus, the fate of ukraine s top general of the air this evening, good major military shake up the underway? we have brand new cnn reporting on what it means for the state of the war. also tonight, a stark warning from the fbi director on major threats that are facing the united states. christopher wray s says hackers and china are preparing to wreak havoc and we aren t paying enough attention. i am kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it is incredibly rare these days to see any kind or shred of unity on capitol hill, but even mor
bring it, donald. show me what you got. also, alabama set to make history tonight for the controversial way it is scheduling to execute a convicted murderer. across the south, more than 30 million people bracing for another round of heavy showers and flooding that could linger for days. and a family reunion, 14 years in the making. a mom finally back with her family after being separated by her nation s broken immigration system. and we begin this morning with breaking news from here in new york city, where testimony has resumed in former president donald trump s defamation damages trial after a three-day pause. the former president is in court today for proceedings, and could testify in his own defense later today. trump was originally expected to testify on monday in the case, brought against him by writer e. jean carroll, but the trial was postponed after a juror got sick and one of trump s attorneys told the judge she was exposed to covid and was feeling sick. l
campaign is going to be unlike any other. yes, the new hampshire primary was a decisive win for donald trump. the kind of win that squashes any momentum for his one remaining challenger nikki haley. but buried in the results are also some very hard truths about americans views of donald trump, trumpism and the state of our democracy. as the bull work put it today, nikki haley has beaten donald trump in iowa. two groups of voters would be deciding the presidential nomination. the first group is a republican primary and caucus voters who acknowledge that tmp legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election. the second group, which overlaps with the first, is republican primary and caucus voters who accept that if trump were to be convicted of a crime, it would be unfit to serve as president. exit polling from nbc news shows that while the republican base may have stuck with trump, just 13% of hah lee voters said they would be satisfied with trump s winning the gop nomination.
can i reach back into your segment where you reported donald trump saying tonight that if you ve contributed to nikki haley, you will be permanently barred from the maga camp. here is my contribution to that discussion, he is lying. he will never turned out money from anyone, he has never turned out money from anyone in his life. he will be begging people who are contributing to nikki haley to contribute to him for the rest of his life. he also has no way of finding out, right? of course. he s not gonna know, someone declaring that she s given her super back of millions. he s not gonna know. what is maga camp? or the drinks free there? what is there to recommend maga camp to anyone? it sounds miserable. big surprise, he is lying. thank you. you are invited anytime, lawrence. president joe biden won by the biggest margin in the new hampshire primary last night with 66% of the vote to his challengers 20%. joe biden s 46 point winning margin was achieved without th