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
struck. and so this enters, you know, the silly season. this is a mccarthy story. and what is going on? yeah, i mean, this is a report out of out of politico today. i talked to a mccarthy ally about it who said that what mccarthy promised was a consideration of moving to expunge the two impeachments against donald trump, but that mccarthy does support these expungements. what remains to be seen here is what actual significance this has. it seems largely symbolic. there s no erases of history or rewriting of history. it s not like a criminal record it s some form in a court that can be deleted. it would largely be a symbolic
protected by people around him. the mccarthy story is fascinating. there are nobody shoes i would want to be in less than mccarthy s in washington. having to field from his members who want to show they re loyal to trump and having to tamp down all of those revolts in his own party at the moment. but i was struck like john about the it s almost like he s thinking in real time, maybe they were building plans, that doesn t sound right, let s go with golf plans. there s a question mark after the building plans. he hasn t decided. he s thinking real time what s my latest defense going to be. you watch the fox news interview, we only have the transcript of the abc one, it s low energy. to coin a phrase from trump, he s not fighting there, he s not the bombastic i m right. if you were to read the body
especially, the mccarthy story right now breaking, is any of this news actually penetrating voters right now in that rally? you know, i think a good point here from this, maria teresa, is in fact the trump is continuing to travel around this country, galvanizing 10,000-plus people at these rallies here. if the january six committee does its thing, the audio recordings of kevin mccarthy come here, there is the reality that donald trump continues to exist as the power structure. this republican party here today. i talked to several dozen individuals, and asked them, does anybody here trust kevin mccarthy? and there was a resounding no. not a single individual was willing to defend kevin mccarthy. they didn t want him to be speaker of the house, if republicans take the house here. and i think that this is also where his rally is endorsement of jamie, who took this stage just a bit ago, i think there s that important connection point that you guys were talking about here. i was talking w
nbc s vaughn hillyard is there for us. bond, can you give us a little bit about what you re seeing right now, because especially, the mccarthy story right now breaking, is any of this news actually penetrating voters right now in that rally? you know, i think a good point here from this, teresa, is in fact the trump is continuing to travel around this country, galvanizing 10,000-plus people at these rallies here. the general six committee does its thing, the audio recordings of kevin mccarthy come here, there is the reality that donald trump continues to exist as the power structure. this republican party here today. i talked to several dozen individuals, and asked them, does anybody here trust kevin mccarthy? and there was a resounding no. not a single individual was willing to defend kevin mccarthy. they didn t want him to be speaker of the house, if republicans take the house here. and i think that this is also where his rally is endorsement of jamie, who took this stage just a bi