clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
the same time he was working for the romanians. i will look at my phone for a moment and read some. the reporting we had a year ago, july 29, 2015, there was a 12:00 p.m. call with former f.b.i. chief working for the romanian businessman the same day hunter biden met with bide. he returns from a trip to romania and breakfast with dad. these are two instances all covered on his calendar in the hard drive that we did an extensive review over a year ago. bill: what comer said earlier today. the exact quote. i think this is important. it is very difficult to track the money in the accounts, john. and i think this is what they were trying to show. that this is the work they ve been doing right now and it s needle in the hay stack kind of stuff. i would. why would you llc trance erg to llc and transferring to the biden. it makes no sense. if it is above board legitimate business why not transfer directly. he did business in china, romania, ukraine. not countries with good busin
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de
the restrictions claiming rescue teams have been using twitter to communicate. our reporter is in turkey, as the golden period for finding survivors rapidly comes to a close. reporter: a 5-year-old emerges from underneath the rubble in turkey s hard hit city. one of hundreds of young lives saved. but for too many, it was too late. in this town, they mourned one of the many who did not make it out alive with. the death toll rising by the hour, this is a race against time. how many are buried in this massive quake zone, nobody really knows. estimates in the tens of thousands. here, search and rescue crews work tirelessly around the clock, digging through a 14-story residential building where families lay asleeve when the earthquake hit. survivors have gathered at the site of the rescue mission, and in the bitter cold, they huddle around these fires. everyone with the story of the horror they survived. the shock, the trauma, the pain visible on every face. parents doing what t
coming out of the ground. could we show it? let me show this to people. watch this. just see that chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. that s what the senator is saying. also this morning we are seeing new surveillance video that shows sparks flying from the train less than an hour before it crashed. this is important because it could give investigators key clues about what happened, what led this. this is in alliance, ohio. the train on the right hand of your screen 57 minutes before it crashed. the train keeps going down the tracks. by 8:12 p.m. it s in salem. you can see the sparks from an apparent wheel bearing overheating. and another surveillance camera here, same time, same town, the train keeps going for 20 miles after that headed for east palestine. that is where it derailed at 8:55 p.m. a full 43 minutes after we first saw though sparks? salem. jason carroll is live on the ground in east palestine. jason, this is going to be a cause for concern. i