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
i m a legitimate person. that s donald trump addressing leaked audio recordings in which he appears to show-off classified u.s. defense plans to people at his new jersey golf club. we ll have all the new developments in that case as well as the evolving defense from trump and his legal team. also ahead we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court, a ruling that could prevent the big lie from playing a role in future elections. plus house speaker kevin mccarthy walks back comments about trump s presidential campaign after a candid moment about the federally indicted candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we re learning new and previously unreported details about special counsel jack smith s investigation into former president donald trump s handling of classified documents after he left the white house the new york times is now reporting the prose
And we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, dont want to get ahead of this. The Department Of Justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the Department Of Justice and now as you all know there is a Special Counsel. Thank you, korine. Another one on garagegate. What is the white house trying to hide . Nothing. Someone gave the President A Statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. Who . So i have read out the president s statement. I have read it out yesterday and what he said. He said that he respects or he takes Classified Information and documents very seriously. Thats what he said. He said he did not know that the records were there. He does not know whats in them. He said that. You heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, ill say this, the Attorney General said this himself, that he heard from the
George santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. Were tracking Severe Weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with this Special Counsel investigation thats about to get under way. Amid new revelations about classified documents found at President Bidens home and office. Lets go right to our chief White House Correspondent phil mattingly. The white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. Thats right, wolf. The white House Counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new Special Counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will be clear this was an inadver
dozen tornadoes hit the south. the keng s daughter gone. lisa marie presley has died suddenly. what might be the biggest political crisis to the biden administration, a special counsel appointed in the document crisis scandal. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good morning, everyone. i m christine romans. we begin with dangerous and deadly storms tearing across the south. 35 tornadoes reported in alabama, kentucky and georgia. at least seven people have been killed. six of the deaths in alabama. the in georgia, a 5-year-old child died when a tree fell on top of a car. selma, alabama, one of the hardest hit areas, a confirmed ef-1 leaving a trail of destruction causing widespread damages to homes and businesses in the historic city. we at the tax office. lord, look at our vehicles. lord, we ain t worried about them. y all, we just thank god for this structure and the lord for blessing us. lord, we could have been gone, y all. we had