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spur the justice department to launch a criminal case. nobody wants an organized crime prosecution where the d.o.j. lawyers or prosecutors go after foot soldiers and lieutenants but don t go after the people that are ordering the crimes and putting all of the criminal events into motion. so, i agree with that. you know, i think that as a matter of justice it is just wrong to punish the people that are seduced by a criminal mastermind but not the mastermind himself or herself. the hearing provided this jaw-dropping account of just how much danger vice president s secret service detail thought that they were in. members of the v.p. detail were starting to fear for their own lives. there was a lot of yelling. there was a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like to talk about it. there were calls to say good-bye to family members, so on and so forth. for whatever the reason was on the ground, the v.p. detail thought it was about to ge ....
never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection w ....
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the ....
you are asking for the opportunity to leave the new at least have the wherewithal and the confidence and the integrity to say i m going to tell it like it is. because i would hope again, i recognized but i m saying. people are probably chuckling and say that is not how washington d.c. works. well that s how it should actually work. don t call me baby girl. you call yourself a bigger. hey, i can say baby girl. [laughs] but you can t? i would say you are right. you are right though. that is how it should work and so we see some evidence i will believe it when i see it, how about that? i will believe it when i see it. i keep hearing people saying things are changing and things are backing weight, but we will see. in terms of coming up we will have more evidence of it. sure. all right baby girl. amen. [laughs] i you get a pass. i was going to say you sound like oprah, in the red dress and everything, i will see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight and we ve g ....
the secret service certainly has more explaining to do. the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point but they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is whether the steps that they are taking to determine first of all, whether any of these messages are still recover -able. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget, the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency. and a half substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigating what happened here, it actually is something that they are quite capable of doing and congress needs to really press in terms of what are the ste ....