conversations you might have missed. jonathan martin, let s ed begin with you. reaction from milwaukee, reaction from the aaron from everything we are hearing from r biden world? welcome i think that there is an extraordinary scene, joe, that we have not in a mop modern american politics, whichs is one party s convention totally eclipsed by the other party that shattered in and around the convention was not nd about jd vance, it was you know what? biden maybe forced to drop out and plotting asked what the an implications of that are, housing he could go and then whether or not he lays hands on his vp for trying to win her as his successor and then their convention in chicago and what o it looks like. that is the conversation here, at least with the political process, the delegates, obviously are still enraptured by all things back, but joe, hi the operative class is transfixed by this story taking place. you know, jonathan, we have been quoting you. so, q this might be
president biden last night. the president hoped to overcome the poor debate performance a couple weeks ago and concerns about his mental acuity with a news conference last night at the close of the nato summit. he did have some gaffes but also showed strong command of key issues, particularly on foreign policy. behind the scenes, though, advisors and close allies are said to be making the case for why he should step aside. we ll go through our new reporting from nbc news. also, on capitol hill, more democratic lawmakers calling on the president to withdraw from the race over concerns he cannot defeat donald trump in november. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 12th. i m willie geist. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the counci
results. and it s what we mentioned first, because tomorrow begins a two-week period that will be critical in determining if this can become a permanent thing. the house returns in the morning and lawmakers will begin a sprint to september 27th, which is the date speaker nancy pelosi set for the bipartisan infrastructure bill the senate passed in august. what happens next on the house will set the tone for the rest of president biden s agenda, as the president finds himself and his agenda between two ideological poles of his party, both of which hold significant sway, and without any help from republicans. when it comes to democrats, there s the joe manchins of the world, and now voting rights legislation unveiled by democrats last week. manchin also says that the $3.5 trillion cost of the reconciliation bill, too high, and in a face-to-face meeting with the president on wednesday appears not to have changed his mind. in fact, axios reports that manchin wants to pause voting
afghanistan is over. the last american troop boarded an aircraft shortly before midnight in kabul last night, marking the end of a chaotic and deadly exit from the country. in total the state department says more than 122,000 people were evacuated since late july. including more than 6,000 americans. but officials estimate between one and 200 u.s. citizens have been left behind. look, there s a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out. i think if we stayed another ten days we wouldn t have gotten everybody out that wanted to get out and there still would be people disappointed with that. it s a tough situation. i want to emphasize again that because we have left that doesn t mean the opportunities for both americans that are in afghanistan that want to leave and afghans who want to leave, they will not be denied that opportunity. the united states leaves afghanistan in the same position as when the mission st
good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the coup attempt. tonight s investigation into former president donald trump s attempts to overturn the election if his role of the january 6th insurrection is entering a whole new phase. the january 6th select committee is now taking over all aspects of the investigation and there are two crucial witnesses who could be calls to appear before the panel. the acting tomorrow jeffrey ro rosened a and his deputy richard donahue. now the house oversight committee was set to interview them this week. now we have learned the january 6th committee will take off where they left off. this will be one investigation. they re important. because rosen and donahue know first hand, trump s repeated attempts to use the justice department to overturn the 2020 election. today we get details how he tried to use the department of justice to pursue and to create basis claims of voter fraud, including what one official who went so far as to draft