people for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president s body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but offered me money. offer me power. i don t care. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. mike pence is in the very first presidential contest state of iowa tonight in the midst of the three-day campaign spectacle. although there s nothing more predictable than a former vice president iran for the white house, mike pence is in a unique position. not only was he number
we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
fgo ,i ve got to go because i m very upset. you know what? adu sound a like adam schiff. that s how things like, oh, gosh, getting out of this now i m mad at you. okay. love you. hannithannity all right. ingram this is the ingraham angle from washington tonightham betweeniq a rock and a hard place. that s the focus o hf tonight s now, they re calling him a stand in a biden in 2020 forla a political star waiting in the wings who. sure has been acting like a candidate lately. going on the road to take the fight to states where fim is under attack. her some here in montgomery, alabama, have a lot of wor alabr to do to build a movement to counter what s happening in red states across this countryy. . i m here in sarasota, florida, new college. ota, flohere just to remin ds ha everybody of what s happening in florida and other states likg e it, of course, as he seeks to raise his national profile, he s been playing very coy with the presss because it s not my ambition, it
justice caught accepting lavish gifts from a from the billionaire. my view is, he broke the law. you have to be held accountable. tonight, the incredible story of sam alito, the giant salmon, the private plane, the billionaire with business before the court. and toledo scrambling attempt to knock down the story. that, mueller investigation revealed that russia interfered in the 2016 when trump s special counsel goes under oath again you can hold yourself out as an objective justice official, or as a partisan hat. the more that you chart try to spin the facts and not answer my questions, you sound like the letter. kevin mccarthy loses the like the letafter republicans ce former chair of the intelligence committee. and how pennsylvania managed to finish a collapse interstate in less than two weeks. this is what it looks like when the ingenuity of delco meets the grit of philly and we work together to get it done. but all in, starts right. now. good eve
all of the political fallout to come. also this hour, florida federal judge aileen cannon sets a file date for the president s documents case as mr. trump gives his most detailed answer yet since last week s indictment about his handling of america s secrets in response to tough questions from fox news anchor bret baier. why not just hand them over then? because i had the boxes. i wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. i didn t want to hand it over yet, and i was very busy as you ve sort of seen. yeah, you tell the aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers you had fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn t? but i had to take all of my thing out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things. and john durham to the house intelligence committee on the 206-page report that s highly critical of the fbi s investigation into the russian interference in 2016, to the republican intelligence committee chairman,