Georgia, he met Misty Hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. And that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the Voting Software and Coffee County. When meadows went on to georgia, the Misty Hampton Coffee County story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. Which cnn broke yesterday. And caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. But it seems as though Coffee County Election Officials invited Trump Campaign officials to basically have access to their Voting Machines. Which according to prosecutors who is not illegal, is that right . Yes, it is not illegal. And she is somebody who basically had written this statement in and all of our colleagues are people who broke this fascinating story. But she had basically written the invitation to come and view the software, which they are not allowed to do. Those are messages that were then transmitted to Trump Campaign
election. we ll walking through this potentially major development in just a moment. putin attempts to impose marshal law in parts of the country he annexed. on capitol hill, the top republican in the house is warning that financial support for ukraine could take a hit if the gop wins control of that chamber. good morning and welcome to way too early. thanks for starting your day with us. we re going to begin with new evidence connected to donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. according to a federal judge, trump signed legal documents claiming voter fraud in georgia. knowing that information was false. it involves one of the architects to overturn the case. he ordered him to turn over 33 new documents including e-mail that s the judge says demonstrate an effort by trump and lawyers to press false claims in federal court. according to the ruling, one of the documents includes an e-mail exchange in which eastman tells or members of trump s legal team that th
that is testimony from mike pence s former adviser regarding former president donald trump s repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterday s january 6th hearing, including the vice president s close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the president s election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk to conservative activist ginni thomas. she is, of course, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 17th. along with joe and me, we have white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way to too early, jonathan lemire. washington post s jackie alemany. host of politicians nation and host of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. and nbc legal analyst joyce vance. good morning to everybody. joe, anothe
it wasn t just that he wanted to send some of the trump wanted pence to send some of the electoral votes back to the states, trump wanted pence to basically throw the whole thing away so that the election would then go to the house of representatives where there was and 24 that had democratic authorities and the theory was that the house would have elected trump president. that was the actual conspiracy that was documented in the indictment the as well, the idea that trump wanted pence to basically throw out half of the electoral college votes. and there is a part in here, also, in which eastman, i believe, basically says look, the point is really just to get it to the judiciary and the chaos of that, they are just not going to want to rule on it because it s a political matter. that alone would delay the certification of the election
knowing that information was false. it involves one of the architects to overturn the case. he ordered him to turn over 33 new documents including e-mail that s the judge says demonstrate an effort by trump and lawyers to press false claims in federal court. according to the ruling, one of the documents includes an e-mail exchange in which eastman tells or members of trump s legal team that the states they were about to cite were false. in a december 31st e-mail, eastman writes, although the president signed a verification for the state court filing back on december 1st, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations has been inaccurate. for him to sign a new verification with that knowledge would not be accurate.