never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
i mean, clearly, something is off there and has been off with rudy giuliani for quite some time. i mean, running around the country proposing, you know, fraudulent electors in different states, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia, things like that, the mystifying press conference in front of a porn shop, you know, in philadelphia. oh, my god. trying to cling to the myth this election was corrupted by venezuela and other countries, just crazy, literally crazy, crazy stuff. this guy has put so much distance between himself and his behaior in new york city on september 11th, where he was legitimately acknowledged to be heroic in terms of his response to what happened that day, you just wonder, what in the world happened to rudy giuliani? well, there is no answer to mike s question there, but to underscore that, as someone who