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well read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of "way too early" and politicos jonathan lemire. associate editor of the "washington post," eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a...

after a service in her majestys honor, king charles iii is about to address members of the scottish parliament after receiving their condolences. earlier on this fourth day of national mourning, the new king walking behind the hearse carrying his mothers coffin draped with a scottish flag alongside his siblings. before departing for scotland in london this morning, king charles addressed members of the british parliament, promising to follow his mothers example. >> the late majesty ple...

his family says hes now paralyzed from the waist down. an eight-year-old boy, his brother, mom, all with the kind of wounds that men and women came home from afghanistan or iraq, signed up knowing it might happen, cooper, luke and keeley, they just went to a parade. friends of the family have set up a gofundme page to help cover ethical expenses and therapy. in the meantime the gunmans father is speaking out telling abc news, he has no regrets about helping his son in 2019 obtain the d...

rioters with the story we heard on tuesday. >> i informs the vicinity and they said something to the fact like i dont care that they have weapons, theyre not here to hurt me, let me people in, they can march to the capital from here. >> president trump was aware that a number of the individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. and here is what president trump instructed the crowd to do. >> were going to walk down, ill be there with you. were going to walk down to t...

and it ended up being a decisive factor in the victory for abortion rights advocates in this state. a lot of credit has to be given to cannons for constitutional freedom. they are the manu bortion rights coalition that was pushing out the vote, and they had to overcome a lot for this decisive win here. not only are registered republicans outnumbering registered democrats in the state by a nearly 2-1 margin, this is deeply conservative state. they have a democratic mayor, yes, but the l...

on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. >> sandra: big show coming up. first, "america reports" with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. >> john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of ka...

hotels, escorts and cars, instead of paying his taxes. how hes responding. plus, police revealing that the professor behind a deadly nevada college shooting had a target list, along with 150 rounds of ammunition. what former students are sharing about his history of what they call peculiar behavior. were now hearing from north dakota senator kevin cramer after his son was charged in a police chase that ended with the death of a sheriffs deputy. and the new information on why police...

♪ ♪ ♪ hunter biden facing felony charges. the presidents son is accused of a scheme to avoid paying at least one point $14 million in taxes. we will break down the latest indictment and how he is responding to it. and we are following the sentencing hearing for the michigan high school shooter. dozens of heartbreaking victim impact statements being read in court, detailing the survivors and their families have been through. and amid threats from donors to pull money, emerge...

leader xi jinping, that was held in woodside california about 35 miles south of san francisco, marking the first meeting in just over a year. she something was quoted through a translator as telling president biden, it is not an option for either country to turn its back on the other. they also said there is room enough to coexist and to both be successful, and that one country success is an opportunity for the other. president biden said he secured agreemen o three major issues, inclu...

is? what if the question isnt are we really going to do this, are we going to maybe elect a convicted felon running explicitly on a platform that ends the american experiment in democracy but on a more basic level should we be asking a different question like is he all right? watch as the presumptive republican presidential nominee celebrates a deadly domestic terrorist attack he helped incite on the united states capitol, as he openly shows contempt for and toward his own supporters s...