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
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. . test. given republicans a lot of momentum. then a couple of months ago, donald trump came back on to the scene. of course, we had the roe v. wade ruling, as well. but that s given democrats a lot of momentum. republicans can see what democrats are trying to do. joe biden is trying to build a coalition of democrats, independents, and disaffected republicans. that s why he s elevating donald trump, because joe biden believes, and a lot of the polling indicates he s right, the more prominent donald trump is closer to the election, the better it will be for democrats. a lot of republicans are aware of that, and are looking to change the subject from donald trump. but the former president loves attention, plans to campaign all over the country, and that could be a big problem for republicans in swing states and swing districts. so adrian to you now, do you agree with that strategy that democrats are pleased the more donald trump is a part of the conversation? yeah, i d
and out of control, a wildfire in new york to more than 100 million people under heat alerts in the u.s.. where was donald trump, and what was he doing before 187 minutes as rioters stormed the u.s. capitol, forced the 2020 election certification to stop, and hunted for vice president mike pence? well, that was the question the january six committee took great pains to answer in thursday night s primetime hearing, according to sworn testimony by numerous insiders, trump had become irate when the secret service refused to and go to the capital. he then spent most of the next three hours as a private dining room watching the chaotic scenes on tv, and refusing pleas from everyone around him to end the violence. his closest advisers testified they never saw or heard trump summon help from any federal agency, listen to this. are you aware of any phone call by the president of united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any
for their own lives. guess you heard this morning i tested positive for covid. but i ve been double vaccinated, double boosted, symptoms are mild. it is friday, july 22, 9:00 a.m. in the morning here in london, 4:00 a.m. this washington where the january 6 committee has just provided its most revealing look yet into the trump white house as the capitol riot took place. former aides testified that trump watched the riot on tv but ignored all pleas from his family and top advisers to intervene. and while vice president mike pence was whisked to a secure location inside the capitol, the committee presented chilling testimony that pence s security detail feared they might not make it out alive. members were starting to fear for their own lives. there were a lot of there was a lot of yelling, a lot of a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like talking about it. but there were calls to say good-bye to family members. for whatever the reas