Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
Needed for his almost half A Billion Dollar civil fraud bond, despite approaching 30 companies asking for help. They have all said no. The deadline to post the bond is next week, if he fails too, Letitia James can seize his assets, unless a judge steps in. Joining us now, vaughn hillyard, and brooklyn prosecutor here in new york and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman. Vaughn, this money stuff, you and i have been talking about it. Clearly its a major problem. Bring us up to speed. Right. This is an issue here. Well, youre looking at him campaigns in ohio over the weekend. Of course the state of arizona continues to be a focus point for their political operation. Donald trump and his family and the Family Business is wholly focused on the fact that they have got to somehow come up over the next seven days with 450 million. Even whether it be in cash or whether it be in the form of an appeal bond, but what this motion here from Donald Trumps lawyer this morning, to the Appellate Court
So i know youve probably heard the phrase history repeats itself. Well, its happening right now. Im talking about recent history and its happening in broad daylight. Were going to talk about that throughout the show tonight with many of the people who would know best. Former trump aide Sarah Matthews was at the white house january 6th, 2021. She saw Political Violence and the lead up to it up close. She saw how donald trump incited it, and were seeing that again. Very fully with efforts to do delegitimize elections which, you guessed it, is happening again also. On that note, i want to start tonight by diving into a story out of arizona. Where last month, a meeting of the Maricopa County Board Of Supervisors erupted into total chaos. A group of people swarmed the meeting, shouting of the members of the board were illegitimate because of voter fraud. The cofounder of a Pro Trump Group even commandeered a podium to announce, this is an act of insurrection. One county official describe th
Deadline in the 2020 election interference case. Hes got until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimidate witnesses or undermine the case. Smith asked the judge to step in after trump issued a vague threat on social media on friday. He wrote in all caps, quote f you go after me, im coming after you. This morning, were also keeping a close watch on Fulton County, georgia, where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. The streets around the courthouse are being shut down as the grand jury considers charges. Trumps lawyer went on a media blitz and appeared on all five networks sunday morning. He floated a new defense for trump, alleged will pressuring mike pence and georgia officials to overturn the election results. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking i
we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h