Welcome back to the weekend, we began with Breaking News out of The Middle East. Hezbollah has now confirmed israel killed its longtime leader. Just last hour the spokesperson for the israeli military confirmed that. His killing under the command of, Choice Chuck chose to join the war that hamas started. There are consequences for that decision. Aaron mcglocklin is live in tel aviv. Bring us up to speed on the latest list our. Symone, around 6 00 yesterday evening, a massive explosion rocked the city of beirut and minutes later, israeli officials were Briefing Members of the press that he was the target of an israeli airstrike on a residential building. They were saying that the Command And Control headquarters for hezbollah was located under then the building. And there was a question whether they had carried out the assassination effectively. They released the Audio Exchange between the Fighter Pilot who carried out the attack and his commander moments after the airstrike was carried
It is great to have you with us. It is 10 00 it is 10 00 im im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We have our eyes trained on a courthouse in washington this morning, where the grand jury empanelled by the Special Counsel to investigate donald trump and Election Interference is beginning to arrive as we that speak. That means a secret vote on whether to indict the former president could potentially come at any moment. Nbcs ryan reilly is at that courthouse. Garrett haake is standing by in along along with former federal prosecutor cynthia axne and veteran prosecutor and Trial Attorney Paul Henderson joins us as well. Right to ryan to start us off do here. Do we know for sure if a vote is going to happen today, ryan . Reporter we dont know that for sure. All we know is that they are present here at the courthouse. Our producers who have been tracking this grand jury over several months recognize many some of the grand jurors and know that they are now upstairs on the third floor where
clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
i m a legitimate person. that s donald trump addressing leaked audio recordings in which he appears to show-off classified u.s. defense plans to people at his new jersey golf club. we ll have all the new developments in that case as well as the evolving defense from trump and his legal team. also ahead we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court, a ruling that could prevent the big lie from playing a role in future elections. plus house speaker kevin mccarthy walks back comments about trump s presidential campaign after a candid moment about the federally indicted candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we re learning new and previously unreported details about special counsel jack smith s investigation into former president donald trump s handling of classified documents after he left the white house the new york times is now reporting the prose
points and said he does no think it is what americans want the manhattan district attorney s office whic investigated trump s role in lunch money payments made to stormy daniels back in 201 declined to comment yesterda on trump s claims, or his cros through protest. nbc news, late last night, obtained his email sent by the da, alvin bragg, in which sh assured his staff that their safety is his top priority in part it reads, we do no tolerate attempts to intimidat our office or threaten the rul of law in new york there has been no official wor yet whether or not bright take to take the unprecedented move of indicting former president. the grand jury in this case ha not finished their work. the group is expected to reconvene tomorrow joining me now from palm beach florida. capitol correspondent, garrett hague. hague, great to see you again. you are near mar-a-lago. give us the insight into trump world. how are lawmakers reacting t trump s claim here well, other than the trut