many are still missing good morning, welcome to way too early, speculation is swirling after the abrupt announcement from the january 6th committee that it plans to hold its sixth public hearing today. the only thing the committee has revealed is the hearing will quote present senior committee staff have been kept out of the loop. three people tell the post that the secrecy is due in part to a credible threat against the witness. the committee announced last week that it was taking a break until the middle of july and yesterday gave just 24 hours notice about the hearing that is scheduled for 1:00 this afternoon. and to add to the fact that congress is in the midst of a two-week recess. key water gls gate figure john dean tweeted, quote, better be a big deal. there was only one surprise witness during the senate watergate committee hearings on july 16, 1973, an announced witness appeared, alex butterfield, who testified to nixon s secret taping system, forever changing hi
mika, the feds took his phone. that s never good, honestly. he s the architect of the attempted coup and the feds have his phone. you know, we were asking, how could this guy not be in legal trouble? apparently he seems he may be. the battle over abortion hits the states, many are wondering if there s anything the federal government can do to protect services for women and what is the state of women s rights? we ll be talking about all of that. willie is with us. good morning. willie, joe and mika, together again. the team is back. welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, june 28th. along with joe, willie and me, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and pulitzer-prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post eugene robinson. willie, yesterday, i m here working, we re doing a show on i think the most one of the most significant other than bush v. gore, perhaps the most significant case of this supreme court in half a century,
of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young
Tonight, republicans talk about Upholding A Second Vote on new speaker. As late as in the 4 00, 4 30 p. M. Hour. Now i can tell you the republican Officials Say the plan is off, but there are reports that republican fire brand jim jordan will get another shot at another floor vote. Here he was walking out after he lost the first vote today. He failed to get enough votes. So we have more on this later in the broadcast where were going to break down what happened in the very important race for speaker and someone whos tied to all sorts of january 6th efforts potentially becoming your new speaker of the house and what we think could come down the pike tomorrow. Thats a fluid governing situation. We begin, though, with the war in the middle east. President biden you see here, this is just moments ago, getting ready to head off to israel tonight, where he will meet with Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow local time. Bidens visit comes amidst one of the deadliest strikes in this early war to date.
All that, plus lady lady. Tributes pouring in for comedy icon jerry lewis. Big ben goes silent but the outrage is loud. And epic grab. Unreal wow a kid makes the catch of the year, today, monday august 21, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. Todays total eclipse with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Guys in graphics taking this very seriously. Were been talking about it since 1979. We want to start on this monday morning. Its a frantic search for navy sailors off the coast of sing poor. After the collision of an oil tanker and the uss john mccain. We have more from bill neely. Reporter good morning, matt. The seas off singapore are in darkness now but the search for the ten missing sailors is now intense by air and on the water. So, too, the search for answers. How on earth did this happen to one of the worlds most sophisticated warships . Especially since its not the first time. A gaping hole in its water line, a