every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
mar-a-lago than it initially on. review trump records. highly political. never happened before. president biden is expected to announce $10,000 in student loan debt cancellation. forgiving federal college student loan debt will cost between 300 million and a trillion dollars. a blatant attempt to buy votes. cost savvy couples pitching nights out cheap rental trucks. one celebrating one year anniversary rented a u-haul. brian: ocean city, new jersey, up until 4:00 in the morning. someone left the lights on. bill is going to be through the roof. you are looking at what the world looks like right before the sun shows itself as the sun. you are looking at somewhat of a dark orange which leads to a lighter yellow. steve: why was everybody up until 4:00 in the morning? brian: because it was tuesday and it s the summer. and we are closing out a summer where no one seems to be working besides us, no one seems to be working this week. katie: curious about how many
he gets elected again? presidential tried to call a witness in our investigation. we will take any effort to and fluids witness testimony very seriously. good morning, it s saturday. july 16th, i am sam stein in from my friend ali velshi. bringing us pressure hour on another week of bombshell revelations from the january 6th elect committee. as the public hearing, the seventh so far focused on far-right extremist groups that participated in the insurrection. and also the direct and then direct correlation between those groups and several of the former presidents minions. they also give us the first look at video testimony given just days before from former white house counsel, pat cipollone. now patrick long was one of the most sought after and vital witnesses today. a person who is not only in the room but was a part of the conversation. offering a critical firsthand account of the final days of the former presidents desperate attempts to stay in power. included and pats
a legally aggressive and, frankly, publicly unpopular decision, drawing backlash around america and intense interest around the world, including people gathering at the high court where folks have been coming together and even though a version of this ruling did leak earlier, which was very unusual, today seeing the actual gutting of roe come down has been shattering for many. illegitimate. illegitimate. this is insane. going over to the other side, especially i wanted to yell at the people there. just how the young women who are on opposition who don t understand how at risk their lives may be. abolish abortion! now that the final ruling is out, we can report for you what it says and what it does. six justices voting to uphold mississippi s sweeping ban, a binding majority of five voting to ending roe entirely, stating abortion destroys potential life and what mississippi republicans called, quote, an unborn human being. bush appointee sam alito writing the opi
congress doesn t have plenary power to do whatever it wants, it is specific we have article 1, there is a long list of powers. the longest article in the constitution, very specific. can raise taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, establish uniform rule of naturalization and coin money, a long list. you could study it and study it, you will not find the power to conduct a criminal investigation, that violates separation of powers, congress is made up of politicians. some of whom are states men. but congress was never set up to conduct criminal investigations of and sort or criminal investigations as part of a justice department or u.s. attorney to targ effort to target an individual or group of individuals, the enterprise of the january 6 committee is unconstitutional, it is troubling there not a single judge in washington, d.c. not one, who has reached that conclusion. yet this goes to the heart of our constitutional construct. you can t have joe biden making legislation