president biden last night. the president hoped to overcome the poor debate performance a couple weeks ago and concerns about his mental acuity with a news conference last night at the close of the nato summit. he did have some gaffes but also showed strong command of key issues, particularly on foreign policy. behind the scenes, though, advisors and close allies are said to be making the case for why he should step aside. we ll go through our new reporting from nbc news. also, on capitol hill, more democratic lawmakers calling on the president to withdraw from the race over concerns he cannot defeat donald trump in november. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 12th. i m willie geist. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the counci
and in the end of course, he does die. it s crushing that way. millions of americans reacted in that way, they were horrified. many who watch that up officer chauvin must have committed an act of criminal brutality so it s not surprising the jury concluded the same thing. the images and that tape seemed to tell the whole story. and in fact it s possible that even if no one outside of the courtroom in minneapolis had ever seen that in at just the jury, it s possible that derek chauvin could have been convicted, the tape is just that powerful. unfortunately we just don t know that, we can only speculate about it because that s not at all what happened. the george floyd video went around the world and became the centerpiece of a new political movement. political actors harness the emotion over that video and over floyd s death to control the country and change it forever. then, and this is the key and the thing that we should think about, and that last month some of these same p
with her defense of the senate filibuster. however, democratic leaders, like south carolina congressman jim clyburn, not giving up hope. he sent this message to senators this afternoon on msnbc. we re going to be steadfast here in this. this is worth doing. not just for african-american voting rights but hispanic american voting rights. i don t understand how any senators can look at what s going on in georgia and florida and texas and 16 other states, and not know that this fragile democracy of ours is teetering on collapse if we do not stop this foolishness. meantime, in a column for the washington post, former-vice president mike pence accuses democrats of attempting a, quote, federal power grab over state elections. the truth is the real power grab is coming from republicans at the state level, and it s not just ballot access. gop-led states have passed new laws to control the process of counting and certifying votes. republicans are also proving unfair district map
that. tonight secretaries tells us with the biden agenda meets for climate. when all, in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes today the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection handed down subpoenas to six more top trump officials in campaign heats. this comes after the chair of the committee congressman benny thompson in mississippi, said they were issued to issue up to 20 new subpoenas. we have six of the massive today. one of them, went to a guy whose name a ring a bell. he spent some time covering him on this program back in the day. his name is bill stepien. he was involved in the new jersey bridge gates scandal, remember that? it was one governor chief of staff was fired and he went on to work for trump. in fact he was the campaign manager for trump s 2020 reelection. when the committee puts it, in the letter said today, to step, and he quote, he supervised the conversion of the campaign to an effort focused on stop
to some of the biggest names in trump world. including the campaign manager, bill stepien, and campaign spokesman jason miller as well as john eastman, the infamous lawyer who wrote the memo described as a quote blue point for a coup. michael flynn, one of the biggest and most prolific peddlers of the big lie. also subpoenaed, bernie karrick. the washington post reports he acted as an investigator of sorts of election fraud conspiracies inside the so-called war room at the willard hotel in washington, d.c. there is also today news on the criminal investigation into election interference taking place in georgia. it has been mostly under the radar for most of the past year. but the new york times is reporting on signs that the georgia probe is entering a new stage, quote, an atlantic district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in the investigation into the enter veerns by the former president and his allies. the prosecutor fanny willis opened her inqui