white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
ted williams is standing by. we begin with david spunt here in washington. hi, david. very scary story. nobody injured here. police though are advertising a 20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect or possibly multiple suspects behind this. the businesses were close and still an incredibly dangerous situation. it happened 4:30 a.m. on sunday. three properties in northeast d.c., each location is a business. the first a truist bank atm. somebody embedded an explosive outside the bank causing damage. the second was a nike store. the third a few minutes later was a safeway grocery store. it happened in a 15 minute span. a suspect through a molotov cocktail object in to the store. police put out this photo yesterday and a vehicle likely possibly several suspects they re looking per law enforcement. a champagne colored acura tl with a clear and rare to see a license plate picture, 179-71 ck. it s unfortunate that this is happening in the area and so much
find enough votes for him to win the state in 2020. turns out, trump may have tried to pressure the governor of arizona, as well. plus, florida governor and 2024 candidate ron desantis facing new pushback after his campaign released a video mocking donald trump s past support for lgbtq issues. what transportation secretary pete buttigieg had to say about that. also this morning, what we re learning about a mass shooting in baltimore yesterday that left two people dead and more than two dozen injured. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. alongside the bbc s katty kay. joe, mika and willie all have the morning off. we are glad you re starting your way with us. with us, we have former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmieri. the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politics nation, the reverend al sharpton. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. good morn
our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept in box
are not going to be going anywhere. he says putin thinks he can wait us out. he said that is not possible. they spoke about that. they spoke about artificial intelligence, at the end of the news conference, i did pose a question to him rating now about the situation as it relates to former president trump. i asked him specifically how he s able to convince americans that they should trust the independence and fairness of the department of justice given his predecessor. former president trump has attacked his credibility, his integrity. he has never once as we have witnessed, he said, told the department of justice to do in any form or fashion, and he said, because i am honest. in fact, that s why you can trust me. the biggest take aways in the news conference. pride month is celebrated around the country. the president did speak in support, in backing of the gay and lesbian and transgender community, calling on congress to pass the equality act, which would incorporate protec