and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
and i also asked about those two americans, these are two american veterans who came here as volunteers, actually responding to president zelenskyy s personal appeal for foreigners to come to this country and fight against russian troops to defend ukraine democracy. they were captured by russian forces. tloez two americans. and the kremlin can t guarantee that they won t receive the death penalty. and he was optimistic and is optimistic that negotiations that are underway that he said are a priority, will help bring them and other forners and ukrainians back from russian custody. what can i say. er that heroes. for me they are the same like ukrainians because think give and they gave the main things they had.
and speaking of the supreme court, at 10:00 a.m. the court will release more decisions. with nine major cases still to be decided. including their possible game changing ruling on roe v. wade. we have a look at what the future could hold, women in states where new laws have severely restricted abortions, traveling to mexico to get the procedure. and moments ago, nbc s richard epgle got an exclusive interview with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. what that country s leader said about the ongoing fight against russian aggression. we ll bring you that when morning joe returns. returns. that s the value of ownership. right now, we re all feelin a little strapped. but weekends are still all about grilling. and walmart always keeps prices low
this is allegedly, he said, no, i don t need a ride, i need ammunition. i ask him did you really say that and he said it happened and that united states and other countries put out extensive offers including offers of planes and helicopters to evacuate him and his family. but that he declined. wow, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engle, thank you very much. and we ll note that nbc universal news group is the media partner for the aspen ideas festival. and still ahead on morning joe, the surfside condo collapse one year later. today the first lady will lead a service to remember the victims of that disaster. as survivors are still struggling over what happened. we ll get a live report from florida straight ahead. plus, with women across country bracing for a supreme court decision on roe v. wade,
of great interest inside of the white house. starting with guns, yesterday for a lot of people was the perfectin capsulation of the gun culture in this country. you talked about passage in the senate of this bill that going to the house that possibly is getting passed in the house and going to the president to sign at some point. and then you have in the supreme court going the opposite of what we know that americans want in this country. we ve seen it for a long time and there is more restrictions on guns. and the supreme court use be a place that an institution that was concerned with how the institution was perceived by the american people. and they didn t want to be too out of touch. the american people were moving one way, they typically try to move in that same direction. we re seeing that not be the case any more. with guns and also with the likelihood abortion case that is coming out. potentially today and probably next week. and so in the white house, on that issue, i talk