much we ll talk to you again a little later on morning joe. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now another community is grieving this morning following another deadly mass shooting this time, it was at a birthday party in small town alabama. we ll have the latest in the investigation and the reaction to more gun violence in america. a daily occurrence almost. it comes as the nra held its annual convention this weekend in indianapolis, with donald trump as one of its top speakers we ll show you the mixed reception the crowd gave to a possible challenger to trump in the 2024 republican presidential race also ahead, new reporting on the wealthy donors who are now backing away from ron desantis why they are ditching the florida governor before he even launches a presidential came p campaign plus, the legal fight over abortion medication will go before the supreme court this week we ll break down
version. the reidout starts now. tonight on the reidout under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for he s going crazy. except for day one. meaning? i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. that s not no, no. that s not retribution. i m going to be i m going to you know, he keeps we love this guy. he says you re not going to be a dictator, are you? i say, no, no, no, other than day one. the day one american dictator whose plans for a second presidency are right out of the play book of venezuelan dictator nicolas maduro. seek vengeance against your opponents, muzzle the press, call off elections. former trump lawyer michael cohen joins me. plus, new reporting on the almost 200 person witness list in trump s georgia election interference case. including pence, barr and bannon. but we begin tonight with a unique
potentially another covid search. as more states open up, as air travel numbers open up and hit records since the start of the pandemic, the cdc is warning new variants could wipe out all the progress we ve made recently if we let our guard down. but first, we begin with our colleague natasha chen. she joins us in georgia. good morning. there is new surveillance video from close to one of the scenes of those murders. what can you tell us this morning? yeah, poppy, it was actually those surveillance images that authorities released on tuesday evening that actually prompted the suspect s parents to call police. they were able to help identify him. and because of that, police then tracked his cell phone and stopped him as he was going south. investigators believe he was headed to florida to perhaps commit similar attacks. so the reason this was not worse, the reason he s in custody here in cherokee county is because his parents called in durks to those surveillance images. her
Police came. My other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. You can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. We heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. Steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. Senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. I could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar15, and we could not see
i kept yelling back are you friendly . We didnt know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. And the Capital Policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. It was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. Some estimated over 50 shots. I stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. He walked around first base outside of the fence. And he got into the dugout. And we realized we were not safe there. Could you se
freedoms, that s sort of the way this debate is and it reminds me of, to come back to ireland, when we started talking about this, we were asking people to go to meetings who had lost family members in this violence. we were asking people to go to meetings with people they knew had set off bombs. that s the way you begin again you have to do it. i think well, the gun thing at home, the only thing i ll say is i think that the people like me, who think we ought to limit ammunition clips to ten bullets, for example, we just need to tart asking these people for help ask them to come to meetings ask them to talk to us because you don t have to win em all. you just have to get people who will believe that you re not going to take their guns away,