what happened on that day. we see the images. we also clearly hear the president s words. $15 minimum wage is in the white house proposal. the expectation is it will likely have to be stripped out in order for democrats to be able to pass the package on a simple majority vote. the white house is in a complicated political position. republicans propose to either do nothing or not enough. good saturday morning to you. we are three days to go until the start of the second impeachment trial of donald trump. there is still an awful lot that we don t know about how this week will play out. democrats, the former president s impeachment lawyers, have to soon lock in their legal strategies and there are a lot of outstanding question, how about house impeachment managers present the case against the former president, will witnesses be ki called, how long will the trial last. and we could get some clues this weekend. tell us wherethings stand. reporter: and we don t know a l
loan application fraud case that s why southern district of new york wouldn t touch it with a ten-foot pole. they re not real gun shy about about going after president trump, but they looked at and they said, it s a zero loss case. is we re not going to do it. so this whole kind of manufactured academic idea of loss to the community. i m not sure it s going to hold off its lawfare and sometimes lawfare collapses of its own weight over time. and that s what we ll find out from the appellate division. and perhaps the court of appeals, if it goes at high in new york, well, they re going to talk about the idea of this being a so-called victimless crime out it s a requirement yet to show the victim in the same way under the statutes, probably a legislative argument that can be made as to whether you think the law is accurate or should be made that way. but they have raised the arguments about his competitors not being able to get the same rates. the idea of the general publi
burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
arguments in about 80 of those casings touching on every aspect of american life, big or small. and at this very moment, they are waiting to hear if they will pick up one of those big cases, the kind of case that winds up in the had history books. the outcome could determine who is on the ballot for milons of voters as they head to the polls this year. we are talking about a challenge to donald trump s spot on the ballot based on the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office. as we reported on this program yesterday, the ex-president is now asked the supreme cou to keep him on the ballot appealing a ruling from the supreme court that found trump was ineligible because of his role on january 6th. the republican party has also asked the court to take the case. so of the voters who filed the challenge in the first place, everyone agrees the supreme cot has to take action. the washington post reports that attorneys for the colorado voters who challenge