still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
anybody else. neil: former president trump canceling three out of four events in iowa moving them virtual as the first in the nation caucus state gets slammed with frigid weather with the campaign s final days. welcome to fox news live, hey, jacqui, i m kind of glad we re indoors. jacqui: good to be with you and not in iowa. i m jacqui heinrich. u.s. military struck another houthi area overnight. after they fired ballistic missiles into shipping lanes on friday. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with what they re saying there, hey, lucas. this is a mop-up duty by the u.s. navy. apparently one houthi area was not there, and this is the third country where president biden has authorized in the proxies and the president spoke about it yesterday in pennsylvania. i ve delivered the message to iran. they already know not to do anything. (inaudible) we ll make sure we respond to the houthis if they continue with the outrageous behavior, along with our allies. and
nancy, nancy! donald trump last night in his cnn town hall, calling january 6th a beautiful day. the event, of course, last night full of lies, misleading statements. we ll go through the biggest ones, and also his comments about writer e. jean carroll that drew laughs and cheers from the crowd. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 11th. we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief jonathan lemire. jen palmieri. jon meacham. and reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany. we watched a rerun from 2016 and what we saw throughout donald trump s presidency. he committed again last night the claim that the election was rigged in 2020. it was not, of course. he called january 6th a beautiful day. he said he was going to pardon the people who attacked police officers on that day. the list goes on and on and on. would not commit to supporting ukraine in its war with russia. we ll get into some of it but, frankly, no surprises in w
control. what they ve done to these people, they ve persecuted these people. and yeah, my answer is i am most likely if i get in i ll most likely i ll say it would be a large portion of them. donald trump s town hall went exactly how most expected and feared it would. he repeated lies about january 6th, the 2020 election, and he inflated his own record. we ll have much more coverage on all of that in just a moment. plus, we ve got new polling on president joe biden s approval rating and a potential rematch with his predecessor. and also ahead the latest from the border as a pandemic restriction on immigration is set to expire at midnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 11th. i m johnlen lemere, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with former president donald trump continuing to cling to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, an election he lost. within the first few minutes of his cnn town hall las
this is not who you thought it was, was it, because she was already so deeply ingrained that the fact he was latino was supposed to be a big deal. he had an ss tattoo on his arm and a swastika on his chest. this guy was not stopped for impersonating in fact he found a bigger community online. that s ben collins describing the online presence for the man who shot and killed eight people saturday in allen, texas. we ll have more on what else we re learning about him and the victims in just a moment. meanwhile in washington president biden will meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy today to discuss the debt ceiling, their first sit down on the issue since february. we ll go through what is expected today come out of this afternoon s talks. and also ahead an update on donald trump s civil rape trial as the case goes to the jury for deliberations later this morning. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 9th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for sta