that is testimony from mike pence s former adviser regarding former president donald trump s repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterday s january 6th hearing, including the vice president s close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the president s election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk to conservative activist ginni thomas. she is, of course, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 17th. along with joe and me, we have white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way to too early, jonathan lemire. washington post s jackie alemany. host of politicians nation and host of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. and nbc legal analyst joyce vance. good morning to everybody. joe, anothe
the conversation was pretty heated. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the president s tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the mob, a mob that had come within 40 feet of the vice president when he was making his escape. markets are mixed today after thursday s disastrous day on wall street and president biden gets defensive about economists predicting a recession. two american veterans fighting in ukraine have gone missing, along with a possible third who volunteered to fight the russians. we will have the latest from kyiv. follow the money, nbc justice correspondent pete williams retracing the steps of the watergate bre
she accepted it bill barr s conclusion that the 2020 election was not stolen. according to nelson, 20 million tuned in to watch the first public hearing. the next one will begin this monday. msnbc news we ll have the latest on monday. joining me now is former congressman, carlos cobbles of florida. the host of the digital show ryan unfiltered. and jason johnson with a word with a jason johnson podcast and he is a political contributor. because your onset with me, jason, i will kick it off with you. i know that we are saying over 1 million watched. this is a lot of people. let s put this in contrast. 120 million watch the super bowl. this is a big contrast. what did you learn that you did not already know? i did know a lot of this reminded me of the impeachment hearings. there is still an appetite and a level of curiosity that the american people had. i tweeted this. this was amazing to me. before the hearings, i got a text from my barber who said get your popcorn ready. i
district attorney. voters blaming boudin for a rise in crime. the mayor will appoint his replacement. bill: san francisco, one of the many democrat-run cities where crime is running rampant up 35% this year. in chicago 40%. in new york and voters are taking notice. dana: the recall is sending a message to soft on crime prosecutors across the country including los angeles d.a. george gascon. he is facing his second recall attempt in two years. bill: easy to see why. the city has been plagued by smash and grab robberies. staffers looked on helplessly. dana: people are around to ride the subway in new york. a man threw a woman onto the tracks. the suspect has a long rap sheet, the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks against passenger. bill: philly trendy district. gunfire sent people running for their lives. an argument escalated into a shoot-out. three people killed and a dozen more wounded. dana: for more on the recall vote let s go to claudia cowen in san fra
good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m john berman with brianna keilar. a deadly weekend in the united states with ten mass shootings since friday. ten. that is according to the gun violence archive. in philadelphia one of the busiest nightlife spots in the city that s where it took place there. in chattanooga at a nightclub. in arizona at a bar. in south carolina, virginia, and texas it was graduation parties. in phoenix a strip mall. omaha near an apartment complex. in macon georgia at an abandoned house. all told 12 people were killed, more than 60 hurt, the victims all ages including teenagers and senior citizens. so far in 2022 the u.s. has seen 246 mass shootings, 33 of those since the elementary school attack in uvalde, texas, just about two weeks ago. now, this morning there is cautious optimism on both sides as key senators say that a bipartisan deal on gun reform is within reach. negotiators will continue to talk this week