senator lindsey graham plans to fight the subpoena. o figh good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we have a lot to get to this morning. but we begin with breaking news from overseas. we re following reports that british prime minister boris johnson may resign today. this news comes amid a wave of resignations in his government and calls for him to step down. and taking a look at the famed front door there at 10 downing street in london. downing street spokesperson told nbc news that the prime minister will make a statement to the country later today. joining us now live from downing street, we have nbc news senior reporter alexander smith. thanks for hustling to be there for us this morning. what s the latest, what can you tell us about the situation there? this is really an extraordinary and unprecedented situation now. we have widespread reports that prime minister boris johnson will be
pat cipollone will sit down for a deposition with the january 6th committee tomorrow. will he help connect the dots? and the georgia prosecutor makes it clear if her investigation uncovers crimes committed by former president trump, he will be held accountable. we ll have her exclusive interview with nbc news. plus, two former fbi directors spurned by trump get swept up in highly invasive and rare tax audits that are supposed to be random. targeted? the odds on that daily double pretty extraordinary, really, for that s a coincidence. yeah, it was a special audit that very few americans got. but somehow, somehow, right after donald trump was upset with james comey and mccabe, both of them hit the daily double, the odds, pretty extraordinary. we ll be talking to michael schmidt who broke that story, willie. that s a tough exacta, even for the two of us. i think the odds are something like 1 in 20,000, to be audited that way. purely by coincidence, the two of the
few hours. alexander smith, with extraordinarily breaking news from london, we will check in with you later in the show. stay right there. and back to news at home. prosecutors in illinois say the highland park suspect has confessed to the july 4th massacre. the 21-year-old appeared in court and ordered held without bail. officials say he acknowledged climbing a fire escape staircase to the rooftop of a downton building before shooting into the parade crowd killing seven and injuring dozens more. we re told the suspect emptied at least one 30-round magazine and re-loaded twice. as he ran from the scene, officials say he dropped the and left behind the ar-style semi-automatic rifle that he used in the attack. it was later recovered by investigators, and traced back to the defendant. after escaping from highland park, officials now say the suspect then drove 140 miles to madison, wisconsin, where he considered attacking a second
to the july 4th massacre. the 21-year-old was in court, ordered held without bail. he acknowledged climbing a fire escape staircase to the rooftop of a downtown building before shooting into the crowd, killing seven and injuring dozens more. we re told he emptied at least one 30-round magazine and reloaded twice. as he ran from the scene, officials say he dropped and left the ar the ar-style semiautomatic rifle used in the attack. it was later recovered by investigators and traced back to the defendant. after escaping from highland park, officials say, he then drove 140 miles to madison, wisconsin, where he considered attacking a second july 4th event. this is the gun officials say he carried with him to madison, along with about 60 rounds of