that is testimony from mike pence s former adviser regarding former president donald trump s repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterday s january 6th hearing, including the vice president s close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the president s election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk to conservative activist ginni thomas. she is, of course, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 17th. along with joe and me, we have white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way to too early, jonathan lemire. washington post s jackie alemany. host of politicians nation and host of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. and nbc legal analyst joyce vance. good morning to everybody. joe, anothe
Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D. C. All this is ken vogel of the New York Times and also the law firm of butler rocca and dershowitz, former federal prosecutor Georgetown Law 0 professor and legal analyst paul butler. Former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york also an msnbc legal analyst mimi rocca, and Professor Emeritus at harvard law school, Alan Dershowitz. He is the author of the book the case against Impeaching Trump. Thanks to all of you for being with us on this sunday night. Ken vogel, i want to start with you just in terms of what weve been seeing out of the white house from this president today. What prompted this flurry of tweets . Well, clearly hes fairly under a lot of pressure. Michael cohen is coming out publicly and releasing the tape of the conversation regarding a payoff to a woman who alleged he had an affair with her, has seemed to set him off in a way we havent seen him reall
Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. It is about something Rudy Giuliani has started to say. In the days after the president ial election Donald Trumps advisers had a message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. There was no collusion with russias effort to disrupt the election. On monday President Trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented a third line of defense, even if mr. Trump did collude with the russians he committed no crime. My client didnt do it. Even if he did it it is not a
crime. Hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. He didnt pay for the hacking he said on cnn. The article goes on. It is just a word choice, said a Criminal Law Professor at georgetown. Im s
No question about it. Talk to your doctor about chantix. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live in washington from 7 00 to 9 00 eastern. Tonight the president lashes out against Robert Mueller claiming Conflicts Of Interest. Plus russia gate travels to the Worst Airport gate in america. Don junior and Robert Mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at Reagan National airport. At the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. Later well talk to senator Chris Van Hollen about matters
foreign and domestic. He floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. But we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a Greatest Hits of grievances against special counsel Robert Mueller. Quote, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflicts Of Interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and
giuliani did not invent the practice of allowing the press to photograph interest, but, as a criminal law professor from loyola marymount university put it, mr. giuliani took that practice and made an art form out of it. and giuliani did not always make sure he had his facts right before doing so. wall street isn t used to the site of its best and brightest in handcuffs, being arrested or charged with insider trading. people like robert freeman, a partner at goldman sachs, timothy taber a former vice president at hubert peabody, richard freeman wicked in, also of that last guy, richard wegman reportedly crying because of how shaken he was by the arrest. mr. giuliani thought the humiliation of being perp walked would make these guys just come clean. the problem is that just a few months after arresting just two of the people he perp walked,