never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
you know what s surprising about the law? first of all that s an incredible memory that i m eager to hear more and more detail of that walking of the mahogany box. but what s interesting about the bill as that it has 15 republicans have signed on to sponsor the bill. there are some names on there that will be familiar because they re the names of retiring senators. also signing on, lindsey graham, chuck grassley, mitch mcconnell, john corman, john thune, republicans in leadership have been some love to say anything contrary to the concert of line about january 6th. they have been loathe to hold accountable and in the insurrectionists or any the plotters of this coup. do you see this as an indication that republicans like those might have more of an appetite to actually have a check on people like donald trump in the coming years? should be read anything into the the report for this? first of all, there was a bit of a checklist for those midterm elections in the u.s. senate races sh
and it did and two weeks later there we were and that beautiful blue sky with the inauguration of joe biden and kamala harris. i was naive, i thought that was it. the towards has been passed. but what we have since learned is that voter suppression efforts were again made all over the country on election day just in the last midterms in arizona, people in camel showing up at election spots. this continues and this is why it is so important that this electoral count act which was worked on by senator manchin and senator collins and so many others, zoloft greene and liz cheney over in the house of representatives, that we pass it. it basically says, no you cannot use this archaic law from the 1800s to stop the will of the people. you know what s surprising about the law? first of all that s an incredible memory that i m eager to hear more and more detail of that walking of the mahogany box.
were, again, made all over the country on election day, just in the last midterms in arizona, people showing up at election spots. this continues. and that is why it is so important that this electoral count act, which was worked on by senator manchin and collins, and so many others. zoe lofgren and liz cheney. it says you cannot use this archaic law from the 1800, rutherford b. hayes days to stop the will of the people. what s surprising about the law, first of all, that s an incredible memory, and i m eager to hear more and more detail about the walking of that mahogany box. what s interesting is it has 15 republicans who have signed on or cosponsored the bill. there are names that will be familiar, retiring senators that have less skin in the game. also signing on, lindsey graham,
clarify the role of the vice president, you make it. because i was the one with, you know, senator blunt at 3:30 in the morning walking through the broken glass with the two young women with the mahogany box. i know very well this proceeding has to be changed. senator, it s great news. i m glad that republicans and democrats are working together on it. and one of the things i like so much about the bill is that it is going the require, i guess, a fifth of members in each chamber to raise an objection and start the process. in the past, of course, january 6th, 2021, is standalone. there s no moral equivalency here. that said, it seems every four years, there will be a democrat objecting when a republican wins, a republican objecting when a democrat wins, and it s really disgraceful. it s nonsense.