sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we re moving to a new system, so you are going to upload your documents, you have to do it yourself. right now the secret service again continues to say, look, we re doing everything that we can to rectify this. so for example, they have handed over about 10,000 records to the house select committee. they have this cover letter explaining what they are trying to do to rectify the situation and what they can expect to see in this 10,000 records. they also say that they are continuing to do this for
down. the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standing strong with ukraine, we will not walk away. that was president joe biden pledging not to walk away from defending ukraine as he commemorated the 80th anniversary of d-day. in this next hour biden will meet with ukraine wherein president volodymyr zelenskyy in paris amid russia s ongoing aggression and tensions over the pace of military aid, and biden then later delivering a major speech on democracy. plus we now have a date when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will address congress as a growing number of democrats and the biden administration have become critical of israel s ongoing handling of the war. and steve bannon has been ordered to report to prison to serve his contempt of congress sentence. we ll discuss why his lawyer brew up over the ruling and how bannon himself responded. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 7th. folks, we made it to fri
be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st
D-day observances, but she s expected to rejoin her husband for the state visit in france meaning she flew to france, flew back to delaware, and will return to paris. elsewhere on the legal front, former trump advisor steve bannon has been ordered to report to prison next month. a judge ruled yesterday bannon must begin his four-month sentence on july 1st. a stay on bannon s sentence was lifted after his appeal in the case was denied, but as nbc news reports bannon could still appeal the ruling. he said yesterday his team plans to appeal all the way to the supreme court. we re going to go all the way to the supreme court if we have to. but i want to say something specifically about the justice department. merrick garland, lisa monaco, the entire justice department they re not going to shut up trump, not going to shut up bannon and certainly not going to shut up maga. bannon was found guilty back in 2022 on two counts for contempt of congress for defying subpoenas from the january 6