Party. Vice president harris reacting to getting the baking from former congresswoman Liz Cheney and also cheneys father, Dick Cheney. The former Vice President following the warning he heard from his daughter, that its not enough just to not vote for Donald Trump. He will take the next Step And Vote for Kamala Harris. In his statement released On Friday, he called trump a threat to our republic and pointed to his repeated 2020 election lies. Quote, he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again. Trump responded in a social Media Post calling Dick Cheney irrelevant. He also did a lot of other things on Social Media that well be talking about this morning. Good morning. Welcome. Monday morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is september 9th. Good to have you with us. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. The president
Series on elections, covering election operations, election integrity, and election security, which will be the focus of our conversation today with our guest, a former department of Homeland Security secretary, mr. Michael chertoff. Im going to read a little bit about mr. Chertoffs bio before i turned it over to our host, elliot burke. As secretary of the u. S. Department of Homeless Committee from 2005 to 2009, Michael Chertoff led the cutHomeland Security from 2005 2009, Michael Chertoff transformed fema into an Effective Organization following hurricane katrina. His greatest successes have earned if headlines because the Important News is what didnt happen. At the chertoff group, mr. Chertoff provides highlevel Strategic Counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of Security Issues, from Risk Identification and prevention to preparedness, response, and recovery. For heading the department of Homeland Security, mr. Chertoff served as a header will judge on the u. S
Were going to ask the members of the press to please part the center aisle so members can have access to the witnesses. The committees meeting today to receive testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland part two. Good morning, the committee, as i indicated, is meeting to hear from four expert witnesses on where we are as of this date with threats to the homeland. This committee was created in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. Since the establishment of the department of Homeland Security, the committee has focused on insuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this responsibility seriously, as has every chairman of this committee. This is why its been the committees practice to hold a hearing to assess Global Threats to the homeland and evaluate the federal governments efforts to confront them. Congress and the American People deserve to hear about the threats we face directly from the official charge with ou
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
President elect win in tcounty helped him to win michigan. We start with the firing of chris krebs, President Trump fired him by tweets, too. The first is baseless and the second tweet the president writes in part, votes from trump to biden, late voting and many more, therefore, effective immediately, krebs is fired. This is someone who most americans are not aware of in terms of name recognition. It is someone whos more important to this election than anybody else. This country does not have an elections krebs called himself the risk adviser. It was his job sto make sure tht the u. S. Election in 2020 went smoothly and safely and securely. He did that. Now we live in a country where the president fired by tweets on tuesday night one of the most senior officials involved with keeping our democracy and keeping our elections safe. We have seen krebs in the days in the election pushing back baseless allegations and unfounded claims and straight up lies about what they believe was a fraudu