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. Well 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. Im 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 council on foreign relations,
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Supreme court just agreed to review an Abortion Ban that violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a Test Case to overturn roe v. Wade. The Mississippi Law under review described as Pure Gaslighting by a judge and to legal scholars the very decision to take up the case in many ways speaks volumes about the focus of the conservative dominated court. From Florida State University Law Professor Ziegler in todays the Washington Post it is impossible to overstate what a big deal this decision is. The immediate tHreat to roe is very real but adds if the court stops short this case alone jeopardizes reproductive rights saying if the decides R Court decides to uphold the Abortion Law it is not clear whether the court will impose any limit on Abortion Bans. This is where we start today. Former u. S. Senator and Contributor Claire Maccaskill and Casey Barlow an Attorney And Host of Words Matter and errin haynes. Claire, You And I Co sort of talked the way tHrough the confirmatio
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contributor. pete, the news about this new hurdle potentially right for team trump as it relates to secret documents the committee investigators want to see that team trump doesn t want them to see. you talked about witnesses. this is about the documents they want from the national archives the january 6th committee. i don t know if i d describe this so much as a setback as a miniature review for the trump lawyers about how the law actually works. we re waiting for a district court judge here in washington to rule on the main question in this case, how much executive privilege does a former president like donald trump have and how much can he have if the current occupant in the white house decides not to exert it over the document. is it up to the former president, the current president? we re waiting for the judge to rule on that. late last night one of mr. trump s lawyers said okay, judge, while we re waiting for a ruling for you, we want you to give us a temporary injunc