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jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former pres...

"morning joe" starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorneys office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 201...

>> were heading in the wrong direction. were not broke yet. international investors are still willing to buy our government debt at very low interest rates. there is no cash flow issue. were not at a greek-style fiscal crisis yet. >> reporter: despite the troubling finances the united states can pay its bills. congress so far has given the government to go out and borrow money and the country found willing investors to borrow money from it at pretty reasonable rates. technically, jenna, the unit...

>> jenna: it seems were having an audio problem here with tom jones. jon: houston, we have a problem! jenna: well bring him back, of course. hed like to get his reactions, and feeling around this event. as you mentioned, jon, a real point in our history, the final flight here for discovery, one of three in our fleet that is going to be ending its space missions over the next several months. we do have the endeavor thats going to do its final mission in april, you have atlantis in june, and this,...

>> theyre disorganized, theyre based on tribal allegiances, theyre not truly a fighting force, they need some sort of leadership now, they need to be armed otherwise, theyre going to run into real trouble at this point jon: and the u.s., i mean, they are plead fog some kind of a no fly zone do you have an opinion on that? >> i think we should get the african community, the arab league, to lean on this, send them weapons, some organization, otherwise that country is going to devolve into horrible...

Former cia operatives, their new book is called "the company we keep" and bob was part of a group tapped to protect the muslim brotherhood as that group tied to assassinate gadhafi in the 1980s hes going to tell us about that most people remember when ronald reagan sent the f111s in to drop balls on his compound, we tried to take him out very directly >> absolutely there was a lethal finding against him, he had blown up a disco in berlin, and killed a couple of american soldiers, and we had to g...

Falls church, virginia. how did this get to be such a mess? >> reporter: jenna, the current federal approach to transportation was basically established in 1956, long before these hot lanes were being erected on the capitol belt weigh. it didnt even exist then. and in virginia, over my shoulder, the booming met rop lis, before that, it was basically a farm field. the department of transportation has since grown and grown to the point where it involves five doc agency, 6000 employees, 100 differe...

Jenna: were glad our with us on such a big day. im jenna lee. jon: im jon scott. the president meeting with hillary clinton. topping the a skwrepbd today the escalating violence in libya and what we should do about it. oil and gas prices are skyrocketing. now the administration is considering tapping your strategic oil reserves to deal with the spike. jenna: the average price for regular gas $3.52. it depends where you live. its a jump of nearly 80-cents from a year ago on average. mike emanuel ...

Of whom have had a difficult couple of years. as for tapping the spr as they call it here, here is spokesman jay carney. >> its an option on the table. remember all the options that we consider and the global system consider is aimed at dealing with a major disruption. it is not a price-based conversation. >> reporter: save it for an absolute crisis. if there is a major disruption in the the flow of oil, not so much for a surprise spike at this point. jenna: we talk about disruption in oil flow ...