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arguing that the doj must explain. the difference between a free republic and a banana republic is not whether the powerful could be held to account but whether the powerful are held to account legitimately. it s not a pretext for ulterior motives. does the department of justice understand this? the jury they stay is still out. that as representative jim banks and other members of congress travel to new jersey to meet with the former president. banks says on the issue of running in 2024, trump is resolved. i ve never seen the president as fired up as what he was tonight. martha: have a big line-up this afternoon. first, to lauren simonetti who is live outside trump tower here in new york city with the very latest in this case. hi, learn. hi, martha. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on attorney general merrick garland to give real reasons for the raid. the fbi and 30 agents spent over nine hours on monday at former president donald trump s primary ....
we ll 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 politico s 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 candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immed ....
Is because an economy, frankly, that performed even better than the fed expected it to. exactly, willie. last month, we added over 200,000 new jobs. the unemployment rate is close to a 50-year low at 3.6%. economists have been bringing up their forecast for economic growth for this year now to 1.5%. not a huge amount, but back at the beginning of the year, people thought the economy was going to be almost at stall speed. that is what has been driving the fed up. as we look ahead, we re not out of the woods yet in terms of the economy. economists have been bringing down their projections for growth next year, really to almost zero. the probability of a recession, i know we re talking a lot lately about a soft landing, but economists still think there is a 60% or better chance of a recession next year. so we re at a crossroads in the economy at the moment. steve, it was significant the fed said yesterday in announing its rate hike that they ve taken ....
Other, then go out into a hall and hold press conferences. it was like lindsey graham announing where our secret coup meetings against newt gingrich was. guys, do that behind closed doors. they would attack each other. i ve yet to hear anybody come up with a good idea on what joe biden should do about six republican appointed supreme court justices or about the fact that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are doing what they consider to be in their best political interests, like lindsey graham and kevin mccarthy. right. he s not getting any sort of consideration of that possibility. then when he does go out there and lights his hair on fire, you know, he compares potentially manchin and sinema and republicans to wallace, they go, whoa, you re being too divisive. full months later, they go, he s ....
United states is targeting the main artery of russia s economy. we re banning all imports of russian oil and gas and energy. that means russian oil will no longer be acceptable at u.s. ports, and the american people will deal another powerful blow to putin s war machine. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support with congress and, i believe, in the country. americans have rallied to support their ukrainian people and made it clear, we will not be part of subsidizing putin s war. russia may continue to grind out its advance at a horrible price, but this much is already clear, ukraine will never be a victory for putin. putin may be able to take a city, but he ll never be able to hold the country. if we do not respond to putin s assault on global peace and stability today, the cost of freedom and to the american people will be even greater tomorrow. that s president biden yesterday at the white house, announing the united states no ....