you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with the biden campaign linking former president donald trump to the most reviled man in history, saying the former president channeled his role models and, quote, parroted adolf hitler at a new hampshire campaign rally. that s in response to trump once again accusing immigrants of, quote, poisoning the blood of the country, an echo of the vile rhetoric used by nazi germany to justify the holocaust. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in south america, not just in three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. they re coming into our country from africa, from asia, all over the world. they re pouring into our country. and republican presidential candidate chris christie once again warning today that the gop needs to pay attention to the reality of what those co
summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve rattn
this is how it works. as frustrating as it is. it s a process. you have to make sure you have the votes to get it done and the president will weigh in and push and talk and do all the necessary work along with the vice president to make sure that we get this done. we ll be watching to see what those holdouts on capitol hill say. thank you so much for joining us this morning. i know it s cold out there on the lawn. thank you. coming up, a texas sheriff is under investigation this morning. what he s accused of ordering his deputies to do when it comes to undocumented immigrants. and donald trump learning there are limits to his power over senate republicans. we have new cnn reporting. tions as low as zero dollars? so you won t have a medicare in the world. plus, 90-day refills and same day delivery.
republicans for blocking extension of the measure. our washington correspondent is at the white house today. joe, the democrats, the white house democrats didn t have the votes for this on friday. does the white house have a strategy on this? you know, they say they have a strategy. they say they ve been working on this all along, but it certainly has to be coming off as slow in the execution for millions of americans who are behind on their rent. and one thing that has not slowed down is the blame game that kicked off when the white house was slow to act. and wait until the last minute to send a request to capitol hill to enact a moratorium, and, of course, that became a problem because they couldn t get the votes. now, the white house says and also democrats on capitol hill say, in fact, it was the republicans who caused this, but
pass a bill on voting rights. poppy? keeping us grounded in reality as always, lauren fox, thank you. let s talk about all of this with our political analyst rachael bade co-author of politico s playbook. you have so many highlights of news, nuggets out. can you just weigh in on what we just heard? how big of a deal is it that stacey abrams is behind manchin s changes here, including voter i.d.? i d say it s significant. i m curious what other democrats on capitol hill say, particularly progressives who are really concerned about voter i.d. requirements nationwide. i mean, the interesting thing about manchin s bill is, yes, it would this compromise. a much narrower bill than what democrats and president biden initially wanted to pass. it would expand early voting. but when it comes to voter i.d.s, and there are democrats who are concerned that is hindrance from some minorities who might not have them to show them at, you know, voter rolls, it seems to be giving