mika, the feds took his phone. that s never good, honestly. he s the architect of the attempted coup and the feds have his phone. you know, we were asking, how could this guy not be in legal trouble? apparently he seems he may be. the battle over abortion hits the states, many are wondering if there s anything the federal government can do to protect services for women and what is the state of women s rights? we ll be talking about all of that. willie is with us. good morning. willie, joe and mika, together again. the team is back. welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, june 28th. along with joe, willie and me, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and pulitzer-prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post eugene robinson. willie, yesterday, i m here working, we re doing a show on i think the most one of the most significant other than bush v. gore, perhaps the most significant case of this supreme court in half a century,
major victory. we expect one of our first vote on later on this afternoon will get it started. and then it is really in the hands of the republicans. they can offer as many events as they want, and they can talk pretty much over the next 20 hours or they want to. so if they can keep the clock moving, at the end of the day, if we keep our 15 votes together we can be able to pass this bill. also, breaking at this hour, president biden has tested negative for covid today. the president s physician announcing those results moments ago. and just ahead, we will go live to the white house on how this affects the presidents plans moving forward. meanwhile, indiana s past the state of the first state to pass abortions after roe v. wade is overturned. governor erin hoeven signing a total ban on the procedure after lawmakers approved. it senators on both sides of the aisle are getting reaction as the laws set to take effect september 15th. these kinds of decisions are never made i
and the supreme court on guns and with the supreme court going one way and congress going the other and we will tell you what it means for gun safety in america. and breaking news overnight from ukraine, after weeks of fighting, the ukraine officials say the forces have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. we ll have the latest. all right. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 24th. i m sam, in for jonathan lemire. hearing number five into the january 6th, focussed on donald trump s efforts to get the justice department to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud, that includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general who would go along with his election conspiracies. the pressure top leaders faced when they refused to do so and how those leaders band together and then prevailed. and pardons for the roles in the election scheme. first, trump s nonstop efforts to get the department of justice to sign off on the big lie. here
trump side, not the doj side. the doj has had conversations, again, very tentative with white house office of legal counsel preemptively because there will be these questions of executive privilege that need to be worked out. it s less from the doj side, and more from the trump side. trump is trying to figure out with the doj has on him. the justice department is just proceeding with their criminal investigation. they have several grand jury s open, they have criminal investigations open that are examining on january six, and whether there is any role by the former president. similarly, business insider is reporting that trump is brushing off concerns about the doj s capitol attack investigation while his lawyers warn that an indictment may be coming. do you see this as an early sign that the doj is preparing to criminally charge the former president? i would look less at what the former president is saying to his aides and advisers and look at what the doj has been doing, properly
it means that eastman is definitely a target of investigation by the justice department, although the actual affidavit connected with the subpoena was drawn up by other than the justice department. it was the inspector general. it s all coming into focus. eastman, clark, a number of people immediately around the president, advising him that he basically didn t need to worry about having whether he really did or didn t believe he won the election, we have it covered from every angle as his son once said. yeah. so professor tribe, you wrote a book on abortion one time talking about how it balances, too, the most critical issues of our time, and that is, liberty versus life. there s always been that balance when it comes to roe, when its come to abortion.