still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
the island where earhart was supposed to stop and refuel. thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. tonight on 360, as the president waives retaliation, a closer look at the steps he could take against whom and the risks he could run of deepening what is already a regional conflict. also tonight, he calls it an invasion. so why does the former president say explicitly the congress should not do anything about the boarder? convicted killer alex murdaugh in court asking for a retrial. what the judge medal of his evidence. good evening. we begin tonight with the biden administration promising a serious response to this weekend s drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers and wounded more than 40 others. this afternoon, the pentagon identified the fallen soldiers as william rivers, 46 years old, 24-year-old specialist kennedy sanders, and specialist breonna moffet, who was 23. u.s. officials say the drone that killed them may have come in
to the country today, this as johnson has been rocked by a new wave of resignations. joining us now from london, nada bashir. good morning, we ve been following these developments the past few hours. what do we know so far about the reports that johnson will step down? reporter: good morning, christine. just gone 10:00 a.m. here in london and clearly a lot has happened. boris johnson now expected to stand down from his post as prime minister. we are expecting him according to downing street to make a statement in the coming hours. we re also waiting for that lectern to come out here to address the press, give that statement announcing his resignation. we understand that he spoke with the chairman of the 1922 committee, that is the committee of back bench members of parliament here in the conservative party who would oversee the process of both the prime minister resigning and of course that potential vote of confidence. but it hasn t reached that stage. the prime minister n
good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, july 7th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. what a moment. moments ago, boris johnson announced he s resigning as britain s prime minister. them s the breaks, he says, a defiant boris johnson, bragging about his accomplishments, his electoral mandate, but certainly not apologizing and failing or refusing to answer the biggest question, when will he actually leave? johnson says he will announce a timetable next week, but there are indications he may want to hang on for months. this only exacerbates the turmoil at the top of this key u.s. ally. his resignation is coming after just a raft, a litany of scandals and a flood of resignations in the last 48 hours, 60 officials quitting johnson s conservative party government, johnson and his speech not dressing those self-inflicted wounds that brought his government down in the end, leaving it as berman mentioned there, them s the breaks
states because of a little known exception the government has been making. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump s response. trump s legal team up against the clock to respond to that bombshell 54-page filing by the justice department. we should be getting that response at any moment now. it is due in less than an hour and the filing, which is expected to be no more than ten pages or less, could give us the first look at the strategy from trump s new legal counsel. that is florida s former solicitor general. for the first time, we re getting crucial insight into trump s defense against damning new evidence from the doj, which, according to the agency s new filing, investigators have evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed in the storage room and efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj detailing in this filing the depth and the breadth