Now, according to the trump campaign s assis claims, dominion voting election company worked with a an election firm smartmatic, george soros and the government to steal the election from donald trump. Of course, none that is even true. Days before the infamous press conference, probably airing the baseless claims and there are internal records that prove it. There s the details from the new york times reporting, quote, according to emails contained in the court documents, zack parkinson, then the campaign director s director of communications reached out to subordinates in november 13th asking them to debunk several matters concerning dominion. The next day, it shows mr. Parkinson got a copy of a memo, cobbled together by his staff which largely appeared to be news articles. And the times has a list of rebutted allegations, photo, that dominion did not use voting technology that dominion had no ties to venezuela or mr. Soros. And there s no evidence that dominion leadership had connec
Speaker nancy pelosi and minority leader kevin mccarthy escalates. Mccarthy is now facing criticism for joking about hitting pelosi with the gavel if he becomes house speaker. The question is did he really think that comment was funny? and after much delay, senators have introduced the long awasted text of their bipartisan infrastructure bill. The question is when will we see a vote? it s way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that at this point would settle for the bronze. We ve got some breaking news in olympics just ahead. I eenl jonathan lemire on this monday, august 2nd. Let s start with news. We begin with a grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. According to an nbc tally, late last notice total cases surpassed 635 million. Florida is quickly becoming the epicenter of this fourth wave of infections, accounting for all, about a fifth of all new cases in the u. S. Yesterday the state broke a previous record for current hospitalizations
Speaker. We begin in what was an overall difficult weekend for the united states in the ongoing coronavirus, the new wave is taxing hospital emergency rooms again. With health officials warning things can get a lot worse. Nbc political correspondent vaughn hillyard has more. Reporter: the united states topping 100,000 new coronavirus cases just friday. A stunning fourth wave with the number of infections and seriousness of the moment rising each day. Things are going to get worse. If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven day afternoon has gone up substantially. The virus surging in states from the west to the east. Cases doubling in more than 40 of them over the last two weeks. This is a class five hurricane. Reporter: more florida residents tested positive for covid over the weekend than any other point in the pandemic. Hospitals in jacksonville and orlando are already breaking previous hospitalization records. In neighboring alabama more than 1,200 people are
Ahead of the tropical storm. What it means for families still looking for answers. And former president trump appears to acknowledge some of the tax schemes alleged by new york prosecutors in the case against the trump organization. Good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is monday july 5th, we hope everybody had a great fourth of july. We ll start with president biden marking the celebration on the lawn at the white house. Part of what he called the summer of freedom, giving new meaning to the independence day holiday as he spoke about the nation s progress against covid19. This year, the fourth of july is a day of special celebration for we are emerging from the darkness of years a year of pandemic and isolation, a year of pain, fear and heartbreaking loss, just think back to where this nation was a year ago. Think back to where you were a year ago. And think about how far we ve come from silent streets [ cheers and applause ] from silent streets to crowded streets. From empty ar
It would be funny, but it s all true. Along with willie and me, we have cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman, an msnbc political contributor. White house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, and author of how the right lost its mind, which is a question we need to answer today. Charlie sykes. Joe will be back tomorrow. But we ll dive right in. After being ousted from republican leadership, congresswoman liz cheney is vowing to keep up the fight to break former president trump s grip on the gop. House republicans voted behind closed doors yesterday to remove cheney as conference chair for telling the truth in a meeting that lasted less than 20 minutes. According to a source in the room, cheney spoke to her colleagues before the vote saying in part, we must be true to our principles and to the constitution. We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our demo