name. what i can share with you is that the president has seen a neurologist for his physical three times. is he taking medication for parkinson s? no. i m not going to confirm a specialist, any specialist that comes to the white house. that was white house press secretary karine jean-pierre sparring with the press over whether the administration has been forthcoming about president biden s health. i ll play more from that exchange and hear more from the white house doctor and why a parkinson s doctor visited in the first place. plus, the republican party lays out its 2024 platform and softens its language on key policy issues. we ll go over why this matters as donald trump continues to cement his grip over the gop. also ahead we ll bring you the latest out of kyiv where rescue operations are underway following a russian strike that destroyed ukraine s largest children s hospital. all right, all right, all right. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, july 9th. good to have you with us. along with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. washington post s eugene robinson. managing editor at the bulwark and also way too early duties this morning, sam stein is with us. you know, it is incredible, what has been happening. oh, by the way, i found out this morning, wall street journal editorial page, you and i were relieved the president didn t say they were elites. turnip truck, i m a man of the people. katty can confirm. oh, also, i just oh, now, okay. let s vent at the top of the show. let s get some organization here. i hope you and mika are okay. apparently, some right-wing something said that we were fighting each other over joe biden. no. you got really testy. we had a semi-vigorous debate. you should see at home when she tells me to take out the trash at 10:00 at n
fantastic access to a supreme court justice. we tip our hats to you. he says he hasn t made a decision yet. he says the two factors are his health and the court. i wonder what he means by the court exactly. sure. and, you know, jim and poppy, there was just so much speculation around a possible supreme court vacancy and whether president biden might get his first opportunity to name someone to a lifetime seat. so that s why i went up there to just get a sense of his thinking. and he did list those priorities right in that order. his health. he s turning 83 next month. he is a very vigorous 82-year-old now, you know. he jogs. he s he hasn t had any of the kinds of health problems that plagued justice ginsburg through four different cancer ordeals. he s relatively healthy. but to the point of his second consideration, the court, this is a man who is very much of an institutionalist, who thinks he can bring consensus to the court, you know, across the ideological factions. h
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, july 15th and we begin with the explosive revelations about how close american democracy came to the edge. jaw-d jaw-dropping excerpts about the aftermath of the 2020 election. these are from the upcoming book i alone can fix it by two pulitzer prize winning reporters. they feared then president trump would attempt a coup after the election and planned ways to stop him from doing it. this is the first time in mod earn u.s. history where there was a potential showdown dpen between the commander in chief and his military. general mark milley and the other joint chiefs plotted mass resignations, one by one, rather than carry out orders from trump that they considered to be illegal, something of a reverse saturday night massacre. according to the book, general m milley also viewed trump as an authoritarian leader. and as for the big lie on the election, milley told his aides, quo
thank you for coming today amelia pang can you tell us about your book and what motivated you to write it? absolutely thank you for having me. starting in 2012 with an american woman opens a brand-new package of halloween decorations from kmart a sos letter is written by a political prisoner who has made a package the very product. so the book follows the story and how he ended up in the labor camp is also to examine the issues in the supply chain and the flawed ways a lot of corporations are auditing their chinese factories and the different factors that contributed to making it easy for something that was made in our labor camp to be ended up so that i bar in portland oregon. why are people locked up in china and how they end up in the forced labor prisons? a lot of these people are political prisoners. pro-democracy activists, religious activists tibetans and a lot of ethnic minorities. and also petty criminals as well a lot of these people haven t necessarily comm