Reid. We begin with the shocking new examples of how this country narrowly escaped a coup at the hands of its former president. Last week we learned that trump pressured its acting Attorney General, jeffrey rosen, and Rosens Deputy, to simply declare with no evidence that the entire 2020 election was, quote, corrupt. Thankfully they refused, even though trump had threatened their jobs. Now politico is reporting that Rosens Deputy and another Doj Official were prepared to resign effective immediately if trump had in fact fired rosen as was feared. Most stunning, however, is that the Resignation Letter that they prepared accuses trump of trying to, quote, utilize the department of Justices Law Enforcement powers for improper ends. But wait, theres more. Another damning story reveals that acting Attorney General rosen also faced pressure from inside the department of justice. Abc news reports that in late December Trump loyalist Jeffrey Clark, who then served as the Acting Head of the doj
Night chat with you, but as i understand it, correct me if im wrong, i believe your weekend officially begins when i say good night rachel. 47, 48, 49, 50. Good night, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Good night. Bye bye. Well the Biden Harris Administration completed six full months in office this Week And Tonight the biden Harris Agenda faces challenges, its biggest challenges in the united States Senate. Now, no president in history served in the senate longer than Joe Biden and no president in history has understood the senate that he is dealing with better than Joe Biden understands his current senate. Joe biden said this week that in effect the senate is broken. He said that the rule on the 60 Vote Threshold is no longer working the way it was supposed to. And he said he supports a change in that rule, but some people think they heard him say there should be no change in the Senate Rules. But what i heard Joe Biden say indicates that he will support a change in the Senate Rules probably
Desantis and local leaders as well as local and federal leaders put politics aside in the aftermath of last week s deadly condo collapse. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it s friday, july 2nd. Along with willie and me we have msnbc political analyst claire mckasskill, eugene robinson, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Mika has the morning off. That was a nice moment. We ve seen a few moments. We never want to overread into these moments and if we do, we certainly will hear about it, people suggesting that we re somehow hopelessly naive. But it is important for americans, it is important for the world to see the president and the governor of florida sitting down, being polite with each other, agreeing with each other that they re on the same team, that they re working together to alleviate the terrible pain, the terrible suffering that these families are going through in florida. We also saw it earlier this week when we saw mitch mcconnell, yes,
Congressman tim ryan. So, of course, tim ryan will be joining us later in the hour to respond to the trump attacks. And it s pretty impressive because tim ryan just recently announced, actually announced on this program that he s running for senate in ohio. You would think tim ryan had some he lead already that had to be stopped. The way donald trump went after him really shows you how strong a candidate i think tim ryan can be there. It also just like, you know, in political combat it s one thing to, like, kind of size up the relative political size of each of the contenders, and trump taking the shots at congressman ryan, obviously, as you say, says something about his chances at winning that senate seat. But you look at trump right now, and it s like, yeah, so did you still want to go to ohio once you learned that your business is probably going to get indicted the tuesday afterwards? what he s worried about, what he s got on his plate right now is so pitiful and scummy that for him
we ll see you again on monday provided i still have a job. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and who needs commercials? come on. the audience is very grateful for that move. rachel, i listened to your interview with attorney general keith ellison who managed the prosecution of derek chauvin, so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. he of course, among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. he brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case, the lead prosecutors. they ll join us in this hour. they wouldn t have been there, they wouldn t have been in that courtroom without keith ellison calling the plays and putting them in that courtroom. and to have had not only the conviction but to have had this landmark sentence today, i mean, that number is going to mean something different to everybody who is looking at it, but to have the judg