this union and chaos are not inevitable. the president makes the case to preserve democracy as the other political party openly advocates for ending it. we ll never lose another election in wisconsin after him elected governor. the newly-leaked eastman emails, and justice clarence thomas to overturn the will of the voters. plus, carole s new reports and the violent attack targeting the speaker of the hat. kayleigh porter on why grocery stores inflated prices are making them referenced record profits. over half of the increase in prices, people are paying, are coming from increases and corporate profits. yes. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. and the last hour, president biden gave a primetime address on the threats to american democracy. he the sight of the insurrection. this, let s than a week out from the midterm elections. it s not all surprising he decided to give the speech, considering the headlines we re seeing
possibility of more classified documents on the property. here is a teeny tiny, teensy-weensy hint, it came from inside. hold on. hold on. are you telling me the call came from the inside? wow. just going to leave that there. good morning. good morning, everyone. it is kind of like the mob, isn t it? oh, boy. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 11th. with us, we have scene from the sopranos. associate editor from the washington post , david ignatius. donald trump can grift money off supporters, but he can t erase history. it is not that he use to mock the fifth amendment before invoking it yesterday hundreds of times, it is also his attack on fbi director christopher wray, a man he nominated to the job as a, quote, impeccable individual and model of integrity. a model, donald trump said. christopher wray was a model of integrity. after all, why would the feds will worried about top secret documents floating around mar-a-lago? remember when
or next week. but kevin mccarthy made it clear that if all of the lawmakers are annual to view this document in camera, in person, then there is no contempt vote. james comer seems to have ultimately agreed despite w boa doing around the contempt vote. all right, jackie, thank you. and this document itself, my god, time and again we hear about the document and it seem to the be much ado about nothing. and you have chuck grassley who saw the document who said that was asked does the document prove that he was guilty? and he said we don t care if he is guilty or not. and again, barr didn t move on
impeachment i just think people discount the leadership the country needed in the republican party and, you know, it trump didn t have to be this strong right now. all they all had to do was stand up to him. nobody is discounting that at all, claire. nobody is discounting it. i have said on this show for eight years that republicans made a mistake by not standing up to a bully. donald trump is what donald trump is right now because nobody stood up to the bully. i had private conversations with paul ryan, you you name it, go down the list, mark meadows, you name it. i went to the capitol early on saying he ll never respect you unless you punch back. you have to be tough. he is a bully. we understand that. does anybody on the set not understand that? well, i mean, look we all
now if that is half slave, half free, you know what, that s fine with me. if that s all free, that s fine with me. i don t really care. i just want to save the union. because he knew that s what he had to say. he said a more horrible things over the proceeding 20 years, because he knew how far he could push the voters. and if he got too far ahead of them, he knew he would lose them and he would lose the battle to emancipate slaves. i love the letter and how you describe please forgive me for going on too long here but it s important to understand. i love that when lincoln was finally in a position to make a hard, fast decision. i love you talking about that letter that i think was hey, sent to the confederates and it was about the possibility of settlement, because the north was exhausted by war. lincoln didn t think he could carry this battle on much longer because they were so exhausted.