reporting, but overnight they reported a stunning update claiming the woman behind the allegations is also the mother of one of walker s children. the daily beast explains why they held details about her, the woman, who is a registered democrat and years-long relationship with walker continued after the abortion told the daily beast the chief concern with revealing her name is because she wanted to protect her family s privacy address best she could. walker says he doesn t even know who the woman could be. the anonymous woman has now also alleged she had a child by you. your response? i say the same thing i said, that, you know, i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me that and it s totally untrue. i m not sure why that would be told. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion and so they can keep coming at me like that. they are doing it because they want to distract people. for national republicans the response has not been to run away fr
ayman al zawahri, al qaeda s leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the president s re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection with the assassination of egyptian president anwar sadat and was indicted in 1999 for the 1997 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania. joining me now is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what do we know about what the president is going to announce, and any details about that operation? reporter: the details are still coming in. what we do know is that the president is going to announce that ayman al zawahri was killed over the weekend in a counterterrorism operation. the pres
trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that he s losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i don t see that changing any time soon. we ll certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. right now millions of americans are getting blasted by a heat wave. when you show the weather app it shows the middle finger emoji. so hat in maine the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. [ applause ] it s so hot in new york this week the rats are wearing crop tops. [ laughter ] it is so hot in south dakota, kristi noem s dog good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very going to be a very hot wednesday, june 19th. jooernt. we ll bring in the former communications
Very close. there is that thin sliver of independents of undecided who might break one way or the other and those are the ones we need to be watching. as much as we follow this day in and day out and minute to minute there are others who are out there doing other things and might watch the debate to figure out how to vote the way they do in a race that could make all of the difference. jonathan, thanks for sticking around for the however. we appreciate you. that will do it for this hour. make sure to join us every weekday at 1:00 p.m. on chris jansing reports. another live vane we re waiting for, in just minutes, president biden is expected to speak in poughkeepsie, new york about creating jobs at a time when we learn in a poll that it is on top of voters mines. katy tur is next. voters mines. katy tur is next business. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarter.
That the republican water was in disarray, and i think it is a direct quote, paraphrasing it, the only reason he is a republican nominee because he scored a lot of touchdowns. who did you say said that? jeff duncan. what is he doing now? lieutenant governor. what is he doing now? working for who? going on tv and talk a lot. no, no, going on tv and talk a lot. right now, people like that, people talking about football, so do you know me basically out there, i will win a seat for the georgia people. the georgia people need a winner, they don t need no one that we see going on right now. appreciate it. herschel walker, repeatedly denying accusations that he paid for a woman to have an abortion. jonathan le mire is back with me, we talked about this earlier, the play book of donald trump, deny, deny, and deny, and