burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
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
then two plaintiffs, a defamation slash slander damages past and future $60 million. alex jones ordered to pay nearly one billion dollars for profiting off of sandy hook wise. tonight, connecticut senator chris murphy and what this means for these families and ben collins on where the alex jones industrialized goes from here. plus, senator elizabeth warren on her midterm message to democrats and a special programming note for viewers in the new york area. when all in starts right now. we have good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. tomorrow the january six committee will be holding what maybe, a little unclear but maybe their final hearing. they will be apparently divulging new evidence showing how the ex president directed the attempted coup. washington post reports that the committee quote is expected to highlight newly-obtained secret service records showing how trump was ribbed levy alerted to bloom violence that day, and he still sought to stop the conflict. t
new york. i m chris hayes. tomorrow the january six committee will be holding what maybe, a little unclear but maybe their final hearing. they will be apparently divulging new evidence showing how the ex president directed the attempted coup. washington post reports that the committee quote is expected to highlight newly-obtained secret service records showing how trump was ribbed levy alerted to bloom violence that day, and he still sought to stop the conflict. that includes internal emails that further buttress accounts about staff members warning trump about the risk and then the reality of violence that day as he continued to press nervous secret service agents to take him to the capital to join the marching. when you know there s been some justifiable controversy around the fact the secret service deleted text messages from the key days january 5th and sixth after the oversight officials requested them. but the committee has been able to obtain other electronic communica
don t know if you will heed that advice. he s still lashing out at the fbi, and any legal file demanding the already seized material. more on that ahead, also this hour, after a string of bold actions and policy victories the president unleashed going on the defensive. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate, and division. but maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, there are a threat to our very democracy. the question is, is that a sign of what is to come in the midterm election, just a couple of months and from now. i ll be talking to robert gibbs. also to those coming up this hour the parents of those killed at the uvalde shooting. they take the message to the texas governor. just days after the police chief finally lost his job. plus teenagers on the front line fighting for abortion rights, fed up with weather school has not been telling them. they ve started