never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
the first lady will travel to delaware after events today in michigan and georgia. this morning outside of an event in detroit, she gave reporters an update on her husband s condition. my husband tested positive for covid. i talked to him just a few minutes ago. he is doing fine. he is feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i m keeping masked. kamala harris landing in charlotte minutes ago. a white house official says she tested negative this morning and was last with the president on tuesday. today at 2:00 eastern, we expect to hear from dr. shaw and white house press secretary for a briefing on the president s condition. let s go to the host of this show, andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum in colorado, peter alexander and kristin welker, yamiche alcindor and dr. zeke emanuel, a member of the president s covid advisory board during the transition. thank you for being here. zeke, let s star
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white
that s what northern greenland is facing every day during this unprecedented global heatwave. the images are incredible, and we ll take you there live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we begin outfront tonight with garland s clearest signal yet, the attorney general going further than he s ever gone when ask if he will try donald trump for trying to overturn the election. no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us even a former president? let me say that again, no person is above the law in this country. i can t say it any more clearly than that. you can t say it any more clearly than that. it is a crucial statement, because garland is in charge of the big decision. it is his justice department that will ultimately decide whether to prosecute trump. and the case against the former president, so far laid out by the january 6th select committee, which is gearing up for tomorrow, highly anticipated primetime hearing, has focus
insurrection. then we learned in great detail how trump himself caused it, all of it. tomorrow we ll watch the season finale when we will get the inside story of the 187 minutes donald trump spent reveling in the violence that he caused while doing nothing to stop it. that is what we begin tonight. over the last six weeks of these public hearings the january 6th committee has put forth an exhaustive record of not just just what happened on the day of the insurrection but everything leading up to it, spelling out the former president s scheme to sell the big lie, summon the mob and light the match of violence. they have accomplished that using live testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and recorded depositions from people who would know, republican former white house officials and members of the president s inner circle. his own legal team both in the white house and on the fringe all of whom paint a damning portrait of what the twice-impeached disgraced former president