They marched with torches chanting jews will not replace us as they paraded through the campus of the university of virginia. It was eerily reminiscent of the torch light rallies held at nuremberg during the third reich. The following day they carried confederate flags and symbols of nazi genocide as they vowed to protect the statue of a treasonous confederate general and openly embraced donald trump as one of their own. In fact just months earlier, an organizer of the unite the right shouted hail trump, hail our people, and was greeted with nazi salutes and applause add a pro trump campaign rally. Another organizer was a member of the proud boys which would later lead the siege of the u. S. Capitol on january 6th. In other words, charlottesville, four years ago tonight, was a tinder box just waiting to ignite. Inevitably, it did. In fact we witnessed some of the violence live on this very network when one of our guests, reverend tracy blackman, was whisked away for her own safety. I w
Reid. We begin with the shocking new examples of how this country narrowly escaped a coup at the hands of its former president. Last week we learned that trump pressured its acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and rosen s deputy, to simply declare with no evidence that the entire 2020 election was, quote, corrupt. Thankfully they refused, even though trump had threatened their jobs. Now politico is reporting that rosen s deputy and another doj official were prepared to resign effective immediately if trump had in fact fired rosen as was feared. Most stunning, however, is that the resignation letter that they prepared accuses trump of trying to, quote, utilize the department of justice s law enforcement powers for improper ends. But wait, there s more. Another damning story reveals that acting attorney general rosen also faced pressure from inside the department of justice. Abc news reports that in late december trump loyalist jeffrey clark, who then served as the acting head of the
Domestic violence extremism threat here in the u. S. Right now. Perhaps nothing encapsulates the emergence of threats as much as the sham audit of ballots in maricopa county. When the gop is akin to a locomotive barreling down the tracks with no brakes, the audit has become such a farce even some arizona republicans now want to stop that runaway train. From the wash be wash post, elected leaders in arizona s largest county responded defiantly to a new subpoena issued by the state senate that sought routers to bolster a review of the 2020 election results. Senate president, a republican, said the items needed to conclude the controversial audit of the election in maricopa county which has been conducted on behalf of the senate since april. County officials sent the senate a scathing letter saying enough is enough, that they refuse to indulge in any conspiracy theories. That letter reads, quote, it is now august of 2021. The election of november 2020 is over. If you haven t figured out t
We will tell you about that new reporting just ahead. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, june 23rd, along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle in new york and here in washington columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, new york times washington bureau chief elizabeth buh miller, national political reporter for axios jonathan swann and white house correspondent for politico and coauthor of the playbook eugene daniels. Willie, you all had a mayor s race in gotham. There was a mayor s race, no talk of suing snl or yanked off the air for mean impersonations they may have done. Yes, the vote was in, ballots have been cast and the primary race for new york city mayor but we are not going to know for a couple weeks who won. The ranked choice voting system prevents us from telling you who won exactly but for now we know that new york city police officer eric adams is the early leader with 32% of the first voice vo
Minority. What do you say to democrats opposed to your filibuster thinking they can still change your mind? and primary voters are heading to the polls across the five boroughs in new york city, navigating the new voting system. A mix of absentee ballots and rounds of rank choice eliminations and vote redistributions could either result in doubt for weeks. Let s begin with nbc capitol hill correspondent garrett haake who you just saw in action ahead of today s vote. You caught up with senator manchin and senator sinema. Senator manchin in the last hour. Senator manchin told me he is still undecided on how he will vote on this procedural vote and to be clear, this is not a final vote on the s1 bill which he does not support and it s not to get to his compromised list of priorities. It s merely a vote to start debate and on that vote he says he is still undecided. Democrats very much understand that this vote will fail and they would like to fail 5050 and not 49 to 51 and be the oppositi