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
finally the votes. you can find that in bookstores not line right now. that is all in on tuesday night, all in starts right. now the body doubles are happening before any of the trials actually begun, which is the staggering part about all of this it s the ice beneath the water line. in terms of what this means for all the people that interact with it. this is happening to all of them. it s what it means to be holding up democracy in this day and age. you have to be prepared for a late night cell phone calls, threatening your family. thank you my friend. and thank you for joining us this hour. the matchup of the years set. it s a rematch of 2020. it s the same teams. it s the red team, versus the other red team. that is right. kansas city chiefs are set it s super bowl 58. okay. all right. if you thought that was a wind up to the lightly battle between president biden and donald trump in 2024. it is also that to. and that is because, bear with me here, a segment of ri
of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
july champion of the world, joey chestnut! how is that for an introduction of the all-time greatest joey jaws chestnut getting it done again on coney island winning the nathan s hot dog eating contest by putting down, ready for this, 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes. he s gross and he s a champion, jonathan lemire. john, there was a rain delay yesterday. you always wonder how s the rain delay going to affect the pitcher. yep. how does the rain delay affect a team? boy, he seemed to ride it out. keep that game face on and just again achieve disgusting, disgusting heights again yesterday with 62 hot dogs in ten minutes. his 16th nathan s hot dog eating contest. he s the greatest. he s the goat. i refuse to watch the footage of joey chestnut eating these hot dog. my eyes are closed. that right there, that introduction, that joey chestnut just received, he would like the same introduction. that s mike barnicle. congrats to joey chestnut. my god, let s stop watching this now.
husky voice, which comes from being in the second week of the stupid cold. i promise next week i will be better. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, lawrence. we have andrew weissmann and faith gay joining us to go over the legal aspects of this case. and lisa birnbach is going to join us, who as you know, is the person who e. jean carroll called on the day donald trump did that to her here in manhattan. and we are going to get that dimension of the story told here. but i just want to thank you for that hour, that 40 minutes with e. jean and this amazing legal team. because roberta kaplan, sean crowley, when you get into reading the transcript of this case, as you know, they re even better than you think. it s like, this is going well, oh no, it s going much, much better, because they re so sharp in every twist and turn in those transcripts all the way through. and it s just an amazing legal team. so i m glad they r