we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
disrupting an official deliberation at the state capital in what some are comparing to the insurrection, ignoring the 2020 riots, 574 that nobody wants to investigator arrest people for. anyway, a full report straight ahead also coming up, a big development from the beg us indictment on donald trump now breaking today, the house judiciary committee jim jordan issued a subpoena to a fanatical trump hating attorney who worked under alvin bragg under this case. pierce morgan interviewed stormy daniels for 90 minutes. and i have one big question for pierce. it s a big one. now he confronted her about the signed document, 2018 where she said it was not i took the money but i never had an affair. now, if you are on a jury and somebody signed that document and then says no, i didn t mean it, would you believe her then or now? who knows. also later tonight, giving into the woke crowd, nike and bud light are facing a wave of criticism after partnering with a woke trans activity that
accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
Through the b. S. I dont know if theres been any. Wants to cut through the b. S. , get the answers to the questions about how long this is going to go on and this is what was most interesting to me. One of my sources says to me, hes going to find out if we have to fight and where this leads. They seem to think that Rudy Giuliani will be the one to be able to do that where nobody else was able to do that before. In some interviews today he talked about his prior relationship with Robert Mueller. Its not clear to me how a prior relationship with mueller would impact an on going investigation. And he told that in his interview that they do have a prior relationship. I think i should remind people that john dab the lawyer that quit also had a prior relationship with mueller. Giuliani did work with mueller after 9 11 of course. But i think that whole we have a relationship and we get along can be overdone because a lot of people worked with mueller over the years. He also said i think when
Is donald trump will go after the jurors directly, and we know what that provokes in his followership. if you had been promised a juror, you would be sitting there listening to this, going, they re going to lift the gag order? that s bonkers. i will say i ve said this many times before trump does is either projection or confession that s really the theme of our stories today. they ve all been exampled of the right in the maga world, all of them doing the thing they say joe biden and the democrats are doing. they are giddily, and in the