the freedom that matters is the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom of speech. that s the most basic and essential of all the freedoms. and that s why it s enshrined in the very first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not simply to freedom, but to humanity. it s not opposable thumbs that separate us from the animalsk. that s our power. words in the beginning was the word, declares john . at the opening of the fourth gospel, the word the word is the most important thing that we have. take away our ability to choose our own words, and we are no longer fully human. we are subjects. we re chattel. authoritarians understand this. above all, that s why they hate freedom of speech. in fact, if you gave them a choice, they d let you have a fully automatic 50 caliber machine gun before they allowed you to say exactly what you want with a gun, you might be able to kill people, but with words you can expose them . with words you can change the world. in fact, there has n
gun safety legislation in the senate tonight. it is minimal legislation by anyone s score. but it is the only legislation that has moved through there they are in the last 30 years. 14 republican senators voting for it, including senator mcconnell, and john cornyn, after he got booed in texas this weekend, for exactly this, either publican state convention in texas. so, something is definitely gonna happen and everyone who was advocating for this cause we ll go back to work advocating for more. as soon as this passes. but it is a very big moment in the history of the subject, and the senate tonight. literally, it s been decades of nothing. and this may be a small something that it is not nothing. and that is big news when it comes to that issue. thank you, lawrence. rachel, you ve worked too hard. get out of here. i ll take it for the rest of the day. thank you, rachel. tonight s other breaking news is that the january 6th committee has secured the cooperation of a docu
campaign propaganda. by the democratic party. every challenge same. nothing like this ever happened in this country. now news anchor disslowing for half. other side can speak. evidence is presented, and evidence not censored or edited. so what we saw last night was not hearing it was a show trial. there with a no pretense ever fairness or cac rat see. the whole thing was convinced by what they saw last night? right around 0. they are not going to win single vote so why did they do it? there had to be a reason. well reason they did every minute news anchors are winding but some imaginery from every minute they are doing they they are not covering collapse of american economy. something that everybody actually cares about. fox i would today, inflation hit 8.6 apifr that s official numbers. those are numbers arrived at using god s own metrics but still increase inflation in more than 40 years not surprising consumer confidence did he lowest level ever reported. why? really comes
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
yeah, appreciate the many points you made. maya, you re hear with me. you look at this situation, it started as an allegedly legal process. it ended as international diplomacy. russia s not even claiming that some judge rethought this. it s a swap. it s a swap, and i think as the reverend said, i would say this is a basketball player, but she became a political football for putin in what was really a war against the u.s. why can t she be a political basketball. she can be a political basketball. do we update our terms? we can update our terms. what s critical here is it was never a legitimate criminal proceeding. it didn t begin as a legitimate political proceeding, and it didn t end as a legitimate political proceeding, including the sentence. it was always political. we have to acknowledge that putin is not a democratic leader in the sense that he behaves as an authoritarian leader.