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
a brand new poll releasing right about now reveals what voters now think of joe biden and america s economy. plus the trump organization s former financial base is in talks to potentially plead guilty again this time to perjury. and i ve told this to anybody who will hear it. i am not going anywhere. nikki haley is holding out even with calls for her to quit the race. but for how long. what s going on, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is friday, february 2, 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. coming up, a new cnn poll, numbers just in, they show america s deep pessimism about the economy might be easing up even if only a little. 26% say the economy is starting to recover versus 48% say it is still in a downturn. which doesn t sound great until you compare it to the poll last summer when only 20% said the economy is recovering. like practically everything else now, views of the economy are sharply split
it s time. listen, i unburden myself last night and almost took another pass at it today because it s so absolutely bonkers. the whole thing. it just keeps getting more insane, but there are, i hope, to make serious points within that story about the dangerous spread of this kind of insanity and what it can reach two and what insanity does reach two on the republican side or politics. most republicans have none of these crazy thoughts, but the ones who do can end up being extremely dangerous. yes, insanity coupled with desperation is never a good thing. we will get to it later in this hour. i ll be watching. donald trump finds himself tonight in agreement with william shakespeare. donald trump doesn t know that, of course, because donald trump is the most ignorant least educated man in the history of the american presidency, including all of those presidents who didn t go to college and were self educated. every american president except donald trump knew or knows
and so he got upset and so he said he d take one and he d challenge me to one and he d beat me. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t. but what i said is, okay, well, if that s the case, then get on a debate stage and let s go. bring it, donald. show me what you got. nikki haley going after donald trump at the very start of her speech in her home state of south carolina. a real shift from previous rallies. we ll have more from the campaign trail and the new polling from the gop front-runner. plus we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill where there are now serious doubts about the possibility of passing a border bill, which includes urgent funding for ukraine. and also ahead, we ll explain the new action by israeli forces inside gaza that could create even more tension with the biden administration. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin this morning with the race
think is a mistake. i believe in it so that we are going to get there but we are going to get there in decades and not overnight. between now and then we are still going to need oil and gas and if we had got supplies in the uk it seems to me absurd not to use those because it will create jobs and also nick improves our energy security and reduces inflation. we have seen what happens when energy dictators hold us to ransom, so cutting off our own supplies of energy seems short sighted policy and it would the situation worse. on public sector pay, low value public sector workers, they do an incredible job, the nhs or the teachers, for example, and of course everyone would like to be paid more, but i have got to be cognisant of what we can afford and what is responsible and it would be dishonest to say, i m going to borrow money so i can give you a generous pay rise and make my life easier for a give you a generous pay rise and make my life easierfor a bit but knowing full well