has left a family of five children without their mother. police picked up an illegal border crosser with the rape and murder of 37-year-old rachel moren as their investigation continues. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. rachel was killed along the popular hiking trail in hartford county, maryland. it happened last summer and it has taken all of this time to get us to where we are now. that s 1800 miles away from the closest point of our southern border. the suspect is from el salvador. he has known gang ties. he illegally crossed the border in february of 2023. he allegedly killed a young woman in his home country and a month later he brutally attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion. police arrested him for rachel moren s murder over the weekend in tulsa, oklahoma. more than ten months after her body was found. the hartford county, maryland sheriff said this. he killed a woman in el salvador and why he fled here to come here thro
doc ronnie johnson. everybody know the congressman from texas? he was the white house doctor. no, actually, they don t know him. they don t know ronnie johnson. who is ronnie johnson? nothing like mocking your opponent there is a randy johnson. mental acuity when messing up the doctor who administered your test who is sitting in the audience. person, man, woman, horse, ronnie johnson. the name of trump s former white house position turned u.s. congressman is ronny jackson. wait, what? not johnson. what? good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s confusing. monday, june 17th. what else is new, right? with us, we have nbc news national affairs analyst and a partner and chief political analyst at puck, john heilemann. pulitzer prize winning writer and analyst eugene robinson. peter baker. symone sanders townsend. thanks to all of you being in early on monday morning. john heilemann. right. i m new at this politics thing, but i m guessing i
pointe du hoc on d-day as he urges americans here at home to defend democracy, stand up to aggression abroad, and be part of something bigger than ourselves. the biden campaign message of democracy and freedom as the election gets closer, but is it landing? the defense calls its first witness at hunter biden s federal gun trial. key members who could take the stand and the impact they might have on this case. and polling says the rfk jr. could have an impact on the election. will challenges keep him off the ballot in some major states. we ll explain what it could mean and who is behind the effort. begin with president biden s appeal to americans to protect democracy and freedom. the president delivering that message more than 4,000 miles away at pointe du hoc in france. the dramatic backdrop at the stop where 80 years ago u.s. army rangers scaled the cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches as allied forces helped turn the tide of world war ii. to believe, to require
greatest generation, with a tribute to the men who turned the tide and saved democracy. we have a special obligation. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honor it and live it. and we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day. it does not absolve us from what we have to do today. those remarks taking a deeper significance ahead of biden s meeting with zelenskyy later today, there for the d-day ceremonies as the war in ukraine wages on. the president s son in court, hearing testimony in his federal gun trial. on the stand today, his brother s widow, with whom hunter had a romantic relationship after beau died. hallie testifying about hunter s addiction to crack. donald trump returning to the campaign trail in arizona, almost a week after he gets critical pre-trial rulings, both florida classified documents and the georgia election interference cases. good day, everyone. i m andrea
trial and the prosecution s first witness, an f.b.i. agent returns to the stand today and now as we understand under cross examination by the defense. so we re watching for that to wrap up and should that happen in the next little while, then the decision would be made by the prosecutors again if they want to redirect based on anything they may have heard in that cross examination by the defense. again, this is the prosecution s first witness, the f.b.i. agent who worked on hunter biden s case. his ex-wife, by the way, kathleen buell, could be up next. his ex-girlfriend, hallie biden, is also expected to testify. hallie biden was married to hunter s brother, beau, who died years ago. a live report from the courthouse and former federal prosecutor andrew cherkasky will be with me to break down the very latest from that courthouse. president biden repeatedly said he could not do anything about the chaos that he has caused on his watch at our southern border. now five months bef