good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
the heat is bad for the bad between the hotter it gets, the harder it is to find your words. wow. cucumber. hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests as well as higher rates of aggression ranging from mean-spirited behavior to violent crime. well, that explains florida. the heat wave is also blasting washington, d.c. when people complain it being over 90 president biden is like see, 81 isn t so bad. just saying. i m not kidding. it s hot out there. i spent all day sweating like a fox news anchor trying to explainp juneteenth. good morning. welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, june 20th. millions of people from the midwest to the northeast will face extreme heat for a fourth straight day. the national weather service is predicting record highs again in several areas, and the heat is expected to last into the weekend. also, tropical storm alberto, the first named storm of the hurricane season, is expected to make landfall soon on mexico s gulf coast. the l
Bipartisan commission and the state s democratic governor, tony ivers, nothing more than a power grab is how governor ivers describes these republican efforts and according to the new york times, he has vowed to stop johnson s proposal. the republican quest to take control of elections in wisconsin and elsewhere around this country is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. john heilemann is here onset. hello, friend. it s been 17 months, i ve been waiting to say, hi, nicole, in-person. it s been a long time. don t treat me like chris christie today. just, like, i want to i came in here going, i don t need the christie treatment today. did you write a book about rescuing the republican party? not to my knowledge and i know who tucker carlson ask and i m happy to talk about the conspiracy theorists at fox news. so here we go. i digress for a moment but let me the whole thing was pretending to not know what
Governor stopped the execution in oklahoma, those were two wins. today i think was a big defeat. in this struggle, you are going to have victories and defeats. what you must do is keep your eye on the prize. we must have laws that protect everyone equally. and i think most americans that are watching this should ask themselves, if a black person hadgot an ar-15 and went to a city where someone was being harmed. if we had gone to brunswick georgia with an ar-15 and say i am going to protect all black and we are going to kill people, we would have gone to jail. and no judge would have sat there and said we could select our own jury. there is still that racial divide. we took a big hit today. but we are going to keep on ticking, because we have no choice but to keep going. and we keep going because we
Back the lives of anthony huber or joseph rosenbaum or heel gaige grosskreutz s injuries. no ruling today changes our reality in wisconsin, that we have work to do toward equity, accountability, and justice, that communities across our state are demanding and deserve. your thoughts? i think that the governor s statement is correct. and i think the broader context of this verdict today is most disturbing, which is why i think the president and the governor has to speak to this. and there needs to be clearer federal legislation. we can argue about the case in particular. but when you look at the broad message that came out of this, is they have said now that vigilantes can go to protests and kill people and say that they were defending themselves. which puts all americans, particularly those that won t to