move in the middle east this morning. he began a meeting with the prime minister of israel just a few moments ago. we re following that. a news conference is set to begin in about an hour. we ll be monitoring. of course, all of this happening ahead of tomorrow s unprecedented, direct flight to saudi arabia. good morning. a lot to cover this morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 14th. joe is off. later this hour, we ll speak with capitol police sergeant gonell, who was forced to retire after the injuries he sustained by the pro-trump mob on january 6th. he s testified before the committee. on tuesday, he embraced one of the rioters and accepted his apology. ahead this morning, former oath keeper spokesman jason van tatenhove, who testified before the committee on tuesday, will also be our guest. he broke from the group in 2017 and is now speaking out about why. willie. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with the latest on the january 6th investigat
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a Gun Rights Group in the u. S. Tonight, the same reporter who had the Breakthrough Scoop about the Steele Dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. Did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a Leadership Shake up at the nra . The backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president , into russian attempts to inf
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. By the letters, chs. Confidential human source. Now, the trove of documents detail reports of payments to steele, mostly redacted. You can see there, thats a lot of white space. There are two exceptions. The final page is information from a document, from february 2016. Of course, thats long before the russia probe began. It says steele was, quote, verbally admonished by the fbi and that steele acknowledged the admonishment and even signed a document noting it. Now, from this excerpt, which obviously is tantalizing, we dont have the wider context of why. The other item comes from page two of these new documents. It concerns the fbis decision to terminate its relationship with steele. Guess when . Just days before the 2016 election. Now, this document says steele had confirmed his relationship with the fbi to an outside party. And that he was a source for a, quote, online article. In addition to revealing his relationshi
landscraping business with 45 employees. he says this summer, he s spending $3,000 more each week for fuel and oil. you ve gone from $1,000 a week in fuel costs to $4,000? yeah, the price of mix of oil, chainsaw oil, 50/50 mix for the weedwhackers and the blowers, all gone up. the price of diesel, everything has gone up. reporter: forced to pass a fuel surcharge onto his customers. there is some good news. gas prices dropped 38 cents in a month. the hope? inflation may have peaked in june. there is no question that we still have work to do. the fed is going to say, oh, my goodness, we ve got to stop this snowball from getting bigger and bigger and turning into an avalanche. nbc s tom costello reporting there. let s bring in cnbc s senior markets correspondent, dominic chu. dom, good morning. there seems to be no area of the economy that inflation has not touched. the white house pointing to gas prices ticking down for the last
what they re saying to you. then there are actual goats, the kind that roam around many communities across america. they eat leaves, grass, and plants. and that s the story out of boise, idaho, today, where over a hundred goats broke free from their day job, yes, goats can have jobs, and they are deployed to do munching on a, well, a planned basis. there s a company that rents them out to eat up weeds. that company had to send out a truck to go get all of these goats. then they sent two trucks. ultimately, there was some flag work to try to corral those goats, you see, and get them all back into their goat transportation systems. which does suggest why that organic solution to overgrown weeds can seem like more work than it might be worth. why not just have electric weedwhackers around. it takes perseverance to chase down your moving goat system. it takes patience, it clearly takes diligence and energy. and some ask, is it worth it? is this the best we can do? it s hard to track down a