. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in the battleground state of georgia live in atlanta. the clock is ticking and the stakes are climbing. the mid-term elections are just two days away. control of congress, of course, hangs in the balance. the senate could be decided by three key toss up races right here in georgia. and in nevada and pennsylvania, other crucial states are also in play and are very tight. the importance of pennsylvania, though, came into sharp focus this weekend big time as three presidents past and present stumped for their parties nominees in that state. you re looking live right now where donald trump has been sharing the stage with florida senator marco rubio. and on the other side of your screen you can see right there, there s president biden getting off of air force one. of course he s going to be in yonkers just a short time from now. but former president of the united states donald trump, and joe biden, the current president of the
in the hour. but we start with the first public hearing of the january 6th committee. which is set to be a primetime hearing, next thursday. the bipartisan panelists interviewed about 1000 people, and received tens of thousands of pages of documents. they have the attempts by the president and his allies to overturn the election, and the attack on our democracy that culminated in the deadly insurrection. we have talked a lot on the show about how close we actually came to you losing our democracy that day. how the threat to our democracy is not over. but is in fact growing with republican efforts to subvert future elections. the key question is whether this committee, and in their hearings, will be able to breakthrough the noise and get the americans attention. in the watergate scandal, 70% of america reported watching the harry. the january six committee is unlikely to get that many viewers in today s polarizing environment. but can they get americans to pay attention for wh
doc ronnie johnson. everybody know the congressman from texas? he was the white house doctor. no, actually, they don t know him. they don t know ronnie johnson. who is ronnie johnson? nothing like mocking your opponent there is a randy johnson. mental acuity when messing up the doctor who administered your test who is sitting in the audience. person, man, woman, horse, ronnie johnson. the name of trump s former white house position turned u.s. congressman is ronny jackson. wait, what? not johnson. what? good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s confusing. monday, june 17th. what else is new, right? with us, we have nbc news national affairs analyst and a partner and chief political analyst at puck, john heilemann. pulitzer prize winning writer and analyst eugene robinson. peter baker. symone sanders townsend. thanks to all of you being in early on monday morning. john heilemann. right. i m new at this politics thing, but i m guessing i
and there s also other issues that the democrats are trying to focus americans on as well that are extremely important like the fact as you said before democracy is on the ballot or as joe biden recorded him saying that. democracy is on the ballot, we have all these election deitooers running for office and people who may not even accept the results of the election once we know the results on tuesday or wednesday. that s a disturbing trend that could lead to potentially the disillusion of the way we do our politics in this country, and that s a very dangerous place to be. francis, let me ask you about that. do you think american democracy is on the ballot like other surrogates like barack obama have framed the issue. what s your level of concern when we see republican candidates in states across the country not committed to accepting election results, still clinging to lies from the 2020 election and so on? how do you talk some sense into
oil prices that have nothing to do with president biden. they re out of his control. he appointed or reappointed the fed chair who s tackling inflation right now with interest rates. so i don t know what the republican plan is other than tax cuts. and that policy did not work in the u.k. that cannot be the solution for everything. anyway, the real issue that americans have to be concerned about, though, is regardless of who wins, jim, i think we re in a really difficult situation because if republicans win we ll be electing potentially hundreds of election deniers to the ballot and to positions of power. and if they lose there s no guarantee they re going to accept the results of the election. either way republicans have put this country in a very difficult position. i agree with you about the election deniers, okay? i m not for those guys. that s not the party i ve been in for my whole life, president