A threat to jurors and judges. Names, addresses, even photos of Georgia Grand jurors are circulating on rightwing media after they voted to indict donald trump. This as he escalates his own rhetoric against the judges. Plus a Staggering Number of people still missing. More than 1,000 unaccounted for after the maui wildfires. Crews now combing through the ruins trying to find the remains of loved ones. At the same time new questions about what caused this disaster and what was done to warn the people in its path. Was it enough . And another fire system to tell you about, forcing people out of their homes. The evacuation of an entire city in canada. 230 fires threatening 20,000 people as the smoke now encroaches into the united states. Were following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. A judge facing death threats. Grand jury members doxed. A disturbing rise in political threats with donald trump now facing four criminal indictments
Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
trump s tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump s last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they re prepared for president trump to further his ends, specifically they propose the immediate mask seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. take a second to think about how that would ve gone over. the immediate massacre of u.s. voting machines by the military. what would that mean? what
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