mad noted that kamala was the first black woman on a major party s ticket. that was all true. but what nearly no outlet wrote is that in selecting kamala harris, joe biden was choosing s the worst viceng president in presidential year histor worsty. now, that s no longer justou our opinion. it s what the american people fully believe. a ne fully w nbc poll found that kamala harris has now hit a record low four net favorability among vicety. president. 49% of voters have a negative view of her. 49 pjust a third have a positivh view of harris. it s not hard to see why non ina person in american politics has beenme celebrated more for doin so little. lookg back, it s amazing that biden even chose kamala. she was the first to drop out of the democratic primary. she didn t even makerimary. ite iowa caucus. in a way, the choice was part of biden s genius, though. choosing kamala basically made biden impeachment approve on day one. as bad as joe biden wouldon prove to be, no one
those secret service text messages that the committee wants to see. plus, 17 members of congress arrested at a rally for abortion rights. we ll speak with one of them. congresswoman sara jacobs. this morning 100 million americans are waking up to heat alerts and oppressive temperatures. the scorching conditions will be felt from coast to coast with some regions seeing triple digits. in dallas temperatures could reach 107 degrees by this afternoon. it will reach 100 in memphis. and new york could see 94 degrees. meanwhile, as the chances of passing climate action in congress look increasingly dim, a white house official tells nbc news president biden will announce executive action today. the president will deliver remarks at a former coal-fired power plant in massachusetts where he ll announce actions on the wind industry as well as funding to protect low income communities grappling with extreme heat. across the atlanta, european nations without the infrastructure to gr
on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they re eve
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, don t even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. it s a problem. would isn t arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trump s final days and office led the fbi to his florida resort. trump was so convinced, so convinced he had won the 2020 election, they flat out refused to pack up the white house until the very last minute. one source tells us that everything in a box was dumped into a room at mar-a-lago. security video of that room eventually obtained by the doj through subpoena. a person familiar told the new york times the footage showed boxes moving in and out after the doj had been in touch. as for trump himself, he