still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
people for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president s body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but offered me money. offer me power. i don t care. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. mike pence is in the very first presidential contest state of iowa tonight in the midst of the three-day campaign spectacle. although there s nothing more predictable than a former vice president iran for the white house, mike pence is in a unique position. not only was he number
what the government could see on the surveillance footage they ve got from mar-a-lago. there s details we didn t have before, like how the cameras were motion activated. really, it s where the cameras could not see that sticks out. on july 6th of last, year the trump organization provided the fbi with a hard drive, containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallway, leading to the storage room, where trump had been keeping this classified documents. that s a pivotal part of how the justice department knew documents were being moved in and out of that storage room. those cameras did not capture what was happening upstairs at mar-a-lago. which is what makes this interesting. this is from that same affidavit from august of last year. quote, the investigation has established that other boxes were moved from the storage room to other locations in the premises, including the former president of the united states presidential suite and pin
unredacted statements add fresh detail for the legitimate basis of the fbi s suspicions. this latest release fills in some of the remaining blanks, particularly having to do with a key video that is referred to in the indictment. the newly available information suggests that people at the justice department suspected something was very much up after watching surveillance footage of trump s former valet, witness number five, moving boxes in and out of a storage area at the time he was being interviewed by the fbi. here s how authorities knew they were being lied to. on may 24th the footage shows him leaving with what the affidavit describes at an anterroom leaving with three boxes. and four days after the interview, witness number five, quote, is observed exiting the anteroom doorway with approximately 50 bankers boxes. if it all strikes you as suspects, moving boxes, missing boxes, basic problems with the math of what goes in and what comes out, you and the department of just
there s as we begin a new hour. american rights risk, a week of consequential rulings from the supreme court has ruled us back decades. raising the stakes of the 2024 race. speaking of, we take a look tonight at the slew of legal laws now effect in florida. governor desantis going right in on abortion and the second amendment. plus pressure campaigns and presidential immunity. donald trump s legal troubles going higher. as the judge shoots down his latest attempt at revenge against e. jean carroll. and the law back, how speaker mccarthy is saying my bad, after daring to doubt that trump could win again. this is american voices! but we begin this hour with your rights. the supreme court, and the republican party hell-bent on rolling back years of president and progress. this week, the courts affirmative jury ended college admissions. it struck a blow to lgbtq+ rights, starting with a website designer who refused to create websites for same-sex couples. and ruled in favor of a