it is friday, and there has been a significant development in the last 12 hours. we ll get to all of it. let s get started with five things to know this friday, july 28th. former president donald trump charged with new crimes in the classified documents case and he has a new co-defendant who allegedly said the boss wanted security camera footage erased after boxes with secret material were moved in and out of a storage room. the new indictment the new superseding indictment offering new information about how the former president allegedly handled a classified at the warford. it was called election interference and harassment and the new charges are, quote, ridiculous. that s not the only case we are watching this morning. his attorneys met with the special prosecutor s office in the january 6 investigation as another potential indictment against the former president looms. all of this falling against, of course, the backdrop of 2024.
joyce vance describing the legal predicament for a mar-a-lago maintenance worker now co-defendant in donald trump s classified documents case. we will go through a big new development there. also ahead, the white house responds to question about whether president joe biden would consider a pardon for his son after hunter biden s plea deal fell apart earlier this week. plus, another unsettling moment in the senate with an aging lawmaker. we ll show you what happened with senator dianne feinstein yesterday. meanwhile the republican-controlled house takes an early recess leaving a big slate of unfinished business and not a whole will the of time to get it done when they come back in six weeks. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 28th. i m willie geist. with us, we have jonathan lemere, michael steele, former white house director of communications to president obama, jennifer palmieri, former
predicament for a mar-a-lago maintenance worker, now a co-defendant in trump s classified documents case. we will go through a big, new development there in just a moment. also ahead, the white house responds to questions about whether president joe biden would consider a pardon for his son after hunter biden s plea deal fell apart earlier this week. plus, another unsettling moment in the senate with an aging lawmaker. we ll show you what happened with senator dianne feinstein yesterday. meanwhile, the republican controlled house takes an early recess, leaving a big slate of unfinished business and not a whole lot of time to get it done when they come back in six weeks. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 28th. i m willie geist. with us, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. former white house director of communications to preside
to it, what would happen to them? thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early morning hours of friday, july 28th, as senators gathered for the vote, mccain was being lobbied and wooed in plain sight by republican leadership. but he was quietly sending signals to friends on the other side of the aisle, like democratic senator, chris coons. he just sort of had a twinkle in his eye and he said, still weighing some things, but, i think we ought to find a way to work together. and then walks away. and we all sort of look at each other, did that mean what you thought it meant, you know? he came up to me in the well of the senate, where all the press gallery is hanging over, looking, and whispers to me, i m voting no. and i said, well, that s great. and then he says, do you think they can read my lips? and i said, no, i don t think so, no. it sounds like the way he delivered it, it was almost like kind of in his typical devilish
best care. there was nothing that would be beyond his reach, if he needed it, for his own treatment. and i think he did, you know, really consider all of the people that he represents in arizona and people across the country and worried that, because it was rushed through and there was so little thought to it, what would happen to them? thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early morning hours of friday, july 28th, as senators gathered for the vote, mccain was being lobbied and wooed in plain sight by republican leadership. but he was quietly sending signals to friends on the other side of the aisle, like democratic senator, chris coons. he just sort of had a twinkle in his eye and he said, still weighing some things, but, i think we ought to find a way to work together. and then walks away. and we all sort of look at each other, did that mean what you thought it meant, you know? he came up to me in the well