state party convention. the line in those negotiations that he says he will not cross. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this monday, june 20th. we ll start with the news. a new poll finds a majority of americans, nearly six in ten, believe donald trump should be charged for his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. the abc news ipsos poll conducted this last friday and saturday after the first three hears in the attack, it found 58% of those surveyed believe the former president should be charged. that includes 91% of democrats and 19% of republicans. 60% of americans believe the january 6th investigation has been fair. and then on friday, former president trump spoke at length about the public hearings for the first time since they began. addressing a crowd at a faith and freedom coalition rally in nashville, trump continued to parrot many of his lies regarding the events on january 6th including his claim that the rioters were
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
confronted at the texas republican convention by angry constituents and he said he would support some form of gun legislation in the wake of the shooting in uvalde. the group called him eye patch mccain. a name coined by a fox news commentator. and senator john cornyn of texas, involved in the gun legislation, was booed at the same texas convention. let s take our country back starting with congress in november. thank you, god bless you. and may god continue to bless our great state of texas. those are a lot of boos. during cornyn s speech some audience members could be chanting quote, no red flag. and an apparent reference to state laws that allow guns to be confiscated from people considered to be a danger to
foreign relations. joe, before the break, we showed these idiots running after crenshaw, congressman crenshaw, calling him eye-patch mccain. it is so where we are right now, with what s happening to the republican party. people watch some joker on television and see him saying it, no context, no understanding of what it means. if they did think about what it means, they d go, huh, this doesn t stand for what we believe in. we believe in law and order. we believe in navy s.e.a.l.s. we believe for those who suffer and take injuries for this country to protect. we d never be cruel to someone injured in the line of duty. just like a cult, a member of a cult, like a robot, they just start repeating what some joker said because that joker is somehow connected to trump and they follow trump.