indictments he s facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what s next in his career and role and climate change activism? i m simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp college admissions process. now americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain, with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity in education. others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers forced civil rights or lcr fall to complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme court s admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they re asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system call
clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
newspaper clippings and documents with him after leaving the white house, something his aides apparently refer to as his beautiful mind boxes, this as trump s defense comes under scrutiny even by some conservatives like carl rogue who say trump invited this indictment. plus, there s even more legal trouble for the former president as writer e. jean carroll s second defamation case gets a court date. we ll run through it all straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 16th. we are all glad it is friday. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. so one week after the latest indictment of donald trump, there s new reporting that pokes holes in one of the former president s defenses. despite claiming earlier in the week that he, quote hadn t had a chance to go through all the boxes that he took with him to mar-a-lago, former white house aides are telling the new york times that trump was unusually attached to those boxes
set expectations for what could and would happen next because it does seem like something is happening. today our cameras caught three of donald trump s lawyers at the department of justice minutes after they left, donald trump started posting about the case saying, quote, how can doj possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other presidents were charged? so does donald trump know something we do not? joining us is senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. donald trump s lawyers were at doj, ken. do we know who they were meeting with? we know who they weren t meeting with. attorney general garland and deputy attorney general lisa mona core were not involved. presumably it was with career officials who have some oversight over this case and are briefed on this case. it s very common for defense attorneys to come in at the end of an investigation and make their case to management at the justice departm
awe greetings everyone, you re watching simone. there s a lot of talk on capitol hill about how speaker kevin mccarthy s so-called been win but i have to ask, how can it be a win if the country is still at risk of defaulting on its own debt? congressman is here to weigh in on this and much more. former vice president mike pence testifying before a federal grand jury this week as part of the special counsel investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a political panel may weigh in. plus, my conversation with the headliner of tonight s white house correspondents dinner, roy wood junior. is he ready for the marathon? i m simone sanders, and i have something to say. will, seasonal allergies have a whole and house republicans are holding your pocketbook hostage. for just over a month before the united states is expected to be offered its loans, congressman passed a debt ceiling increase in order to avoid economic calamity. on wednesday,