good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
the heat is bad for the bad between the hotter it gets, the harder it is to find your words. wow. cucumber. hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests as well as higher rates of aggression ranging from mean-spirited behavior to violent crime. well, that explains florida. the heat wave is also blasting washington, d.c. when people complain it being over 90 president biden is like see, 81 isn t so bad. just saying. i m not kidding. it s hot out there. i spent all day sweating like a fox news anchor trying to explainp juneteenth. good morning. welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, june 20th. millions of people from the midwest to the northeast will face extreme heat for a fourth straight day. the national weather service is predicting record highs again in several areas, and the heat is expected to last into the weekend. also, tropical storm alberto, the first named storm of the hurricane season, is expected to make landfall soon on mexico s gulf coast. the l
suppress the vote may have changed. but the struggle remains the same. joining me now on our rapid response panel, annette tadao, doing a wonderful job of fighting suppression and also registering voters. and michael eric dyson, georgetown university professor and msnbc political analyst. doctor, you first. how clear-cut is it that this, i believe that this is race-based. this is going after minorities. this is going after low-income families. this is going after folks in the city. your thoughts. there is no question, ed. it is targeted and specific and perniciously so. because when you re undermining public financing for judicial elections, when you re undermining the capacity of same-day registration. when you re challenging the i.d.s that people have used in the past to vote and now all of a sudden you want to introduce
u.s. government officials? and the answer lies in a mcclachey article today that i hope everybody googles and reads that describes how the obama administration is waging an unprecedented war on whistleblowers and leakers inside the government, equating them with enemies of the united states and has prosecuted them more aggressively than any prior president in history. and i think that s what we ought to be asking is why a whist whistleblow whistleblower s been treated so perniciously, such persecution, and why does he feel a need to flee the united states. glenn, let me ask you this. we see edward snowden referred to as a whistleblower in some reports, a leaker in another. what s the difference? well, i think a whistleblower is somebody who exposes things that ought to be exposed in terms of what the most powerful political officials in the country are doing, either wrongdoing on their part, illegality or just deceit. and if you read the new york times this morning which summariz