hearing. cassidy hutchinson testified that donald trump and chief of staff mark meadows ignored warnings about potential violence before the attack and did nothing to stop it once the attack was under way. according to hutchinson, trump knew there were weapons in the crowd but during his speech at the ellipse, still ordered his supporters to march to the capitol. and new details about efforts close to trump to intimidate witnesses who have cooperated in the congressional investigation. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, june 29th. it seems that history bends every day this week. mika, we, of course, had the supreme court decision last friday. and yesterday, had the most testimony on capitol hill since watergate, what was your takeaway? well from my perspective, it was revealed, exposed really that the men around trump are weak, feckless cowards who had this pathetic need to be close to a failed president. and they almost destroyed our democracy. and
join us coming up. john: first fox news alert to an economy in crisis. americans crushed on high prices from gas to food while their retirement accounts evaporate. growing concerns a dramatic move by the fed on interest rates could send the economy spiralling into recession. john roberts in washington. sandra. great to have you back. sandra: i am sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. we are watching all of this, brand-new numbers today from may painting a bleak picture of the american economy. consumer and producer prices still skyrocketing, and hitting record highs. all has major implications for your wallet as those producers that are facing higher costs plan to pass those higher numbers down to the consumer in the form of higher and higher prices. john: national price of gasoline up 63% from a year ago and the highest ever. sandra: it is almost hard to believe, every day a new record. the white house has announced a middle east trip to saudi arabia n
what i thought was interesting too is you ll often hear a lot of people supporting nikki haley saying they want to see decency in the white house and haley also says she believes chaos follows trump everywhere. the media research center did release a study this week. trace: very quickly. showed 91% of the news coverage on trump from the maimer networks was negative. trace: well we know that. i don t know if it s a trump issue or a media issue. trace: we have to go, stephanie hamill, larry elder, thank you both we appreciate it. meantime new polling shows the biggest issue for voters in the iowa caucuses is the border and illegal immigration and on that note the standoff between texas and the biden administration is now escalating. today the texas national guard seized control of a park in eagle pass to stop the surge of illegal immigration even blocking the border patrol from entering. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is
effect him. i guess everybody just looks at him as dotterring father and they don t have any problem with it. so, i m not surprised at all. laura: well, let s move to this trump issue with jack smith, the prosecutor, releasing a superseding indictment yesterday. there were three new charges against trump. attempting to destroy, alter, mutilate or conceal evidence. also inducing someone else to do so and a new count under the espionage act related to classified national document security. david, let s go to you. help us break these down because it looks like they have either on tape or a witness recounting conversations about trump employees and perhaps a notation that the president spoke with one of those employees about going in and allegedly asking for servers to be deleted after the government requested them.
my own sense is it s not a smart strategy for desantis to try to outtrump trump among trump voters on a trump issue. the far better strategy is what chris christie doing, saying trump wasn t for you. trump neglected you. he s in it for himself. you re suffering. he betrayed you. it s a far better argument to make it about the voters. governor desantis seems hellbent on outtrumping mr. trump. maybe his wife will change her name to melania or something. i don t know. i don t think it s going to work. sarah, on truth social trump finally weighed in on the failed uprising and mutiny in russia. here is what he said. a big mess in russia. be careful for what you wish for. next in may be far worse. maybe he meant to say it may be a far worse. w