still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we re learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutting dow
group of people outside a migrant shelter killing eight. we ll bring you that news conference as soon as it begins. we re learning more about what could be behind the mass shooting at a busy outlet mall on saturday that left eight dead. we ll talk to a dad who was with his teen daughter when the shots rang out. meanwhile, in california, we re live at a migrant camp where hundreds of people from all over the world have come to seek asylum days before the u.s. lifts health restrictions at the border this morning. there is word that the governor of texas is now sending more troops to the border in his state. in new york, protesters stand on subway tracks interrupting service as calls grow for authorities to charge the man who put a fellow subway rider into a deadly chokehold. and we ll break down president biden s new strategy to raise the debt ceiling as he prepares to meet with top congressional leaders tomorrow. and we begin with breaking news out of texas where off
but them s the breaks. neil: all that in 24 hours. with that, boris johnson is out. the british prime minister giving up the fight as so many in his government gave up on him. his covid parties didn t help and his appointments certainly hurt. did boris get the boot because britain s economy couldn t get back on its feet? just like this herd was moving there, could the same thing happen here? fox on top of what happened now with greg palkot in london on the scramble to replace a prime minister. the wall street journal s gerry baker and general keith kellogg on why vladimir putin is celebrating a western leader heading out just as he keeps digging in. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s go to greg palkot in london with the latest on the search for the next prime minister. greg? absolutely, neil. as the sunsets here on the thames, the house of parliament behind us, it s the end of an era just about. british prime minister boris johnson stepping down as party leader
well, this is not going to apply if you re delayed because of a snowstorm or something that is, you know, an act of god. we re really talking about significant issues as it relates to mechanical delays, staffing delays, maybe they re late because they don t have a catering truck. the luggage isn t getting loaded, whatever. a variety of issues that are or should be within the airline s control, if they are delayed because of those issues, then the idea would be you would receive cash compensation. as i said, the europeans do that already, but whether this is going to fly in the u.s. i think is another issue. all right, come costello, thank you, sir. you bet. that s going to do it for us today. thank you all for being here. we ll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. until then, reporting from new york, i m ana cabrera. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m josé diaz-balart, moments from now we re goi