we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
the stars and the black holes that appeared in our universe 13 billion years ago. tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. hello, welcome to the programme. donald trump knew there was no evidence to support his wild conspiracy theories that the election was stolen. his attorney general told him, his chief of staff told him, his white house council pat cippilone told him. but trump refused to believe the reality. today, the jan 6 committee honed in on an extraordinary series of meetings in dec 2020, in which white house staff got into a screaming match with trump loyalists, who somehow had gained access to the president office. rudi giulliani, general michael flynn and the lawyer sydney powell were feeding donald trump theories, without any evidence, that the election had been stolen. he said every video the judg
links between extremist groups like the oathkeepers and the proud boys and members of former president trump s inner circle. marshall cohen is live in washington this morning with a preview for us. how does the committee plan to connect those dots, marshall? reporter: good morning, it is all about the right wing extremist groups and donald trump and the committee has been making the case that this was so much more than a wing k and a n, this was a real affiliation to create a violent attempted overthrow. so as you mentioned, we re expecting in-person testimony from two witnesses today. i ll break them down for you. the first is a guy by the name of jason tatenhove, former national spokesman of the oathkeepers. their members breached the capitol on capital 6 and some charged with sedition. this guy tatenhove was not part of the group on that day, he hadn t been affiliated but he h critic these days of their right wing violent ideology and their anti-government views. so he w
i think you can expect some fairly big bombshells. let s bring you in here ron, you are not meant to be coy, i know you are not. a straight shooter. cipollone defended trump in the first impeachment hearing, the fact that he is from trump s inner circle, he was not like chomping at the bit to testify. he was not witness number one he is just coming in. how important is it that this is the first, this is the guy that is coming to testify now? how important is this to the overall committee s ability to make the case to the american electorite. i am not a lawyer but as a journalist you go to the sources on the outside, you get information and you go closer and closer to the central. given the accounts that we heard in cipollone s presence at so many critical moments, the attempt to replace the leadership of the justice department, he is there. the conversation with mark meadows on jan 6 where mark meadows through hutchinson s testimony says he does not think he is doing anyt
governors against former president trump who says it s a matter of when, not if he runs. what will the gop look like in 2024? i ll speak exclusively to the republican governor in arizona, doug ducey, next. the january 6 committee will lay out what former president trump did during the insurrection. is it a crime? i ll speak with congresswoman elaine loria in moments. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is really feeling the price hikes. president biden is back in washington this morning, and brushing back criticism of his meeting and fist bump with saudi s brutal crown prince this week. why don t you guys talk about something that matters? the face-to-face oil enriched saudi arabia comes as they try to take on gas priceses and inflation. inflation rose 9.1% in june compared to last year without any easy solutions. president biden returns to a domestic agenda that once again has been stymied by democratic senator joe manchin. the west virgin