evening. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 9th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. we ll dive right into the house investigation into the january 6th capitol attack, which kicks off tonight in primetime. an aide tells nbc news the committee will present evidence never shown before which shows president donald trump at the center of a coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 election. the aide says tonight s testimony will serve as sort of an opening statement, and that the information we hear could go beyond the testimony we hear from live witnesses. as we ve reported, this evening s witnesses include a filmmaker who is embedded with the far right group, the proud boys, and a capitol police officer who was injured in the attack. the new york times reports the committee will also play video excerpts of the testimony from j
air travel. you had to take your shoes off. you had to go through four grader screenings. i mean, everybody remembers after 9/11. you would get checked going into the airport. you d get checked going through tsa. you would get checked at the gate. like, you had to get patted down. you re still getting patted down. liquids mika and i just traveled. liquids taken out. even, what, 21 years later, of our bags in one airport and thrown out, separated. they checked them. i mean, they have so hyperregulated air travel to stop another 9/11. guess what? it s worked. i guess what steve scalise is telling us is he is totally fine with the hyperregulation of guns. if his model is 9/11, progressives would say, bring it on. too much for me. hey, why don t we just do universal background checks that 90% of americans support?