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.
construction here manufacture and you go back and ask all the people who grew up in this beautiful place what they d rather have. do they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have? i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying, i would rather have a coal plant. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad was a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer. but my dad was in sales. and there was no work, so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home, when you take the trolly in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenues, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town, where the scrantons and other good decent people live there was a you would go buy a wall that my recollection
headquarters here in. new york welcome everybody to alex witt reports. this, our new insights today into the future of the january six committee s investigations into the attack on the capitol. committee members discussing how new evidence and witnesses keep pouring in as they push ahead two more hearings in september. earlier today, multiple committee members also discussed was missing secret service tax. and the prospect of talking to abc officials mention in cassidy hutchinson s testimony. the committee is more than welcome, if they will testify under oath to put the door is wide open for them. it is not a decision that they have so far. we have already heard testimony from them. i expect that we will again. mr. ornado has retained private criminal defense counsel. and we have seen that, also, with respect to one other secret service agent. i think that is significant. meanwhile, concern is growing today of a new report detailing a radical plan for trump s second ter
No other president has been indicted like this. Trumps lawyers arguing he should be immune, basically totally immune because he was president during those efforts. That is a new relatively made up claim which they lost unanimously before the respected d. C. Court of appeals. Keep that in mind. That is the recent precedent and context for today, and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the trump lawyer openly claimed that as President Trump could have a license to kill american opponents. That was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then. That kind of talk was back today with grave questions about murder and coups and trumps lawyer saying its okay or it all depends. Lets say this president , who ordered the military to stage a coup. Orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts. I think it would depend on the circumstances. It would depend on the hypothetical. It raises questions. O
look, he is. i mean, he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that s based on a form of government totally different than ours. president biden s last answer there might have been a bit awkward but true after what was otherwise a productive meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping. we ll have more from their first face-to-face talks in a year. i will say, mika. yeah? i know i don t interrupt, but i will in this case. that clip is burying the lead. what do we got? oh, well yeah. we had a meeting that i thought went extraordinarily well. fortunately, we have the wise man here who can tell us and the wise woman who can tell us what they think. oh, good. i, for one, loved hearing what was said there, and i love the fact that they understand that the united states and china, whether either side likes it or not, is we re going to be, in effect, running a large part of the planet over the next half century, as far as the economy, the