noonan s new piece on whether trump will soon reach his waterloo. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 10th. it s good to be back. wonderful to be back. we were gone? i never knew. we were gone for a week. we have the host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton. former aide to the george w. bush state department, elise jordan. and the washington post s david ignatius. pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham is with us this morning. moments ago, president bide anne rivalled at 10 downing street in london where he was met at the door by united kingdom prime minister rishi sunak. president biden is holding meetings in the morning with the pm ahead of a trip to windsor castle this afternoon. while there, he ll meet with the newly crowned king charles for the first time since he ascended the throne. this afternoon, the two will participate in a climate engagement at the castle before president biden leaves for the nato summit, beginning
happy new year, jen. i think you and speaker pelosi just launched a thousand memes. there will now be toys that when you activate them, they say, in nancy pelosi s voice, just win, baby. that is now going to be a thing from here on out. we re waiting. marketing people out there, order them. order them. exactly. we ll sell them on the show. just win, baby. just win, baby. thanks, jen. much appreciated. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, we have two major parties in our country. a week from today we re going to have the first votes in one of those parties, in the republican party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominating contest this year. and you know all that. but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the orga
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
number of migrants putting a strain on both their governments. what can they get done? we ll have the latest coming up. we re going to start in the middle east where israel says it is battling enemies in gaza, in the west bank. lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen, and iran simultaneously. the heaviest fighting is happening in central gaza right now where israel says refugee camps are now considered a new battle zone. the u.n. says bombings there have killed at least 100 palestinians since christmas, and despite evacuation orders there is, quotes, no safe place for gaza residents to go. jay gray is live in tel aviv. jay, give us the very latest on the intensity of fighting happening now. reporter: yeah, it s very intense right now. in fact, some humanitarian agencies saying this is the most violent and deadly fighting we ve seen since the beginning of the ground invasion into gaza. we know that the idf is working, as you talked about, in these refugee camps, in central gaza just o
rejecting a request by special counsel jack smith to decide now whether the former president has immunity so his trial can begin on time in march. it comes as new evidence emerges, the reported tape of mr. trump pressuring michigan election officials, what he allegedly said. also tonight, the tragedy in gaza. the first known american listed as a hostage confirmed dead. the fears for his wife still in captivity. the heart-pounding body cam, police responding to the deadly mass shooting at a university in prague. what it reveals. the record surge at the border and the new reporting. our cameras there as busloads of migrants are released onto arizona streets. the holiday travel crush. millions on the move and the storms we re tracking. will they disrupt your trip? the terror at sea. videos of a rogue wave slamming a cruise ship more than 250 passengers stranded. the dramatic rescue. a man trapped under rocks for days in a tunnel on a san diego cliffside. the moment h