we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
Down an american movie, Censor An American picture it doesnt like, wrong in not calling him first before buckling before a north korean dictator. This is obama laying it on the line in a Press Conference that signalled all the audacity hes packed into a week since the november election, the deal on climate change, the protective order for people who came here illegally, and including the post of an American Ambassador with the communist government in cube a taking questions from all Women Reporters in todays Press Conference, where will this Obama Audacity take us . Im joined by david corn, and by actor, writer and director sean penn who joins me now by phone. First of all, heres the president speaking about sonys decision to pull the interview, the movie that inspired the hacking. Lets watch. Sony is a corporation. I would agree with the president. I think that, you know, im not speaking as an advocate for the Motion Picture industry or as a critic. But we have to realize this is a ge
he just wanted to be at the sin center of things. aren t there moments in his career he stood up for people? ah no? i know meadows absolutely goes where the wind goes. well, so does lindsey. i mean, in i guess it was 96/ 97, we had a coup attempt against newt gingrich, and 12 of us, sort of the red hots, the true believers as we were called, extremists as a lot of republicans called us, would have secret meetings. lindsey would it d always be in lindsey s office. i never understood because he wasn t a true believer. he really didn t care. for us, it was about the deficit. it was about the debt. it was about smaller government. lindsey didn t really care about it. somehow, the meetings were always at lindsey s place. we d have secret meetings, and we just started noticing that every time we showed up at the secret meetings, we had to walk through members of press on both