appreciate it. and thanks at-home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. you are getting more of me than you bargained for this week, i m sorry. if everything goes as planned which honestly is basically never, in the news business, but you can t break your plans unless you make them in the first place, if all goes as planned, i will be here tonight hosting the rachel maddow show and tomorrow night as well, and my usual time of 90 am eastern, hosting the rachel maddow show tuesday night tonight, winds and a tomorrow. and then thursday night, i will be here as well, with an all-star team of all of my msnbc colleagues. because thursday night we expect to be doing another primetime recap of the january 6th hearing that is going to be happening during the workday on thursday this week. so, we will see. right? hi tonight, hi tomorrow night as well, my usual 9 pm eastern time. and then big special coverage starting at 8 pm eastern thursday night, after the next january
i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. we begin with major news just in, president biden will officially be making a controversial trip to saudi arabia. what was really an open secret is now being confirmed by the white house. the middle east trip next month will include visits to israel as well as the west bank. the controversy surrounds what biden said as a candidate, he vowed it punish the kingdom and make the saudi crown prince a pariah for the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi. arlette saenz live at the white house with this official announcement, arlette. what are they saying? reporter: well, john, those comments from president biden appear to be in the rear view mirror as he is now preparing to travel to saudi arabia next month. the white house saying this will be part of a broader trip to the middle east, spanning from july 13th to july 16th, starting with those stops in israel and the palestinian west bank. the president will then travel on t
this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. president biden last week addressing thursday s primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we re hours away from the committee s second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we ll tell you what s in the deal and how soon it could get to the president s desk. one of the leading negotiators, senator chris murphy, will join us live right here on morning joe. we re also keeping an eye on wall street, as the markets are tanking ahead of the opening bell. looks like a bad day ahead. good day to go to the track. we ll get some insight on what is fueling this latest sell-off. plus, the average price of gas hi
necessary. great, great. i know where you are, so i know where to find you. i ll see you soon. thank you as always. our top story the damning testimony at today s second january 6th hearing. much of it led with highlights by trump attorney general bill barr. i was somewhat demoralized, because i thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with with he s become detached from reality. and when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were there was never there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations. i told him it was it was crazy stuff. completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation. they were idiotic claims. they obviously were influencing a lot of people, member of the public. complete nonsense. wow. and remember, everything you just heard is from a source that was not only very loyal to trump
bright stars through the perilous fight over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: beautiful rendition from the air force singing sergeants commute deliver fantastic photos on fox and friends saturday morning at 6:00 a.m. new york city. carley: happy to be here. will: this is becoming one of the best traditions in morning television. in the middle of those photos was a photo from my cousin in california, longhorn, she said if that is not america i don t know what is. carley: that stood out to me. pete: one of the two homes of the navy seals. if you are in california and up, good morning, glad your dvring this show. let s grow the west coast rdo. carley: coming up later in the show something exciting that i wasn t