clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
officers that murdered my son, you also disgraced your own families when you did this. but you know what? i m going to pray for you and your families, because at the end of the day, this shouldn t have happened. that s right. this just shouldn t have happened. rowvaughn wells, the mother of tyre nichols, showing her grief while showing grace for the families of the men accused of killing her son. the video showing some of nichols final moments was released on friday. nichols crying out for his mother, just down the block from her house. it has sparked outrage and protests around the country. more action from the memphis police department, as well. we also got our first look at what happened the night paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, was attacked. it comes as the man accused in the attack makes some bizarre and disturbing comments in a phone call about that night. and what more he wanted to do. the brutal beating pelosi sustained was often mocked and question
already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
analyst. and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. white house bureau chief of my politico. and host of the circus, john heilemann. good to have you all. polls open in less than an hour in georgia, where one of the most consequential primaries of the midterms is taking place. there are several state and congressional races on the ballot, but the ones we re closely watching are the republican primaries for governor, secretary of state, and senate. the new york times describes the background of today s races like this. quote, georgia s got everything. disputed elections, rapid demographic change, celebrity democrats, a restrictive new voting law, an open criminal investigation into donald trump s meddling in the 2020 election, a deep rural-urban divide and unending drama between the trump wing of the republican party and the local gop establishment. that s a lot. former senator david perdue, whose loss in the state two years ago helped give democrats control of