summer. hey, do you work? what do you do? usually when an 81-year-old does that much traveling through europe, it s on a viking river cruise. [ laughter ] good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, june 13th. we re going to bring you the very latest from the g7 summit in italy. president biden is there meeting with world leaders and also talking support for ukraine. that s a top priority there. meanwhile, there s a lot happening today on capitol hill. donald trump will be in washington to meet with lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. it comes a day after a partisan vote in the house, holding merrick garland in contempt of congress. we re going to dig into all of that straight ahead. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former treasury official and economic analyst steve rattn
oversight realm, and by the way, these hearings that they re holding on the house side at least are mostly theoretical and mccarthy, kevin mccarthy, the peeker spent a lot time saying why don t you ask me about this and that, maybe because marjorie taylor green was showing what s purported to be a naked photo of hunter biden during had hearing with hunter biden. it is surprising that grassley is doing it. it is not surprising that this is where the overall investigation has gone. can we linger a moment on the marjorie taylor greene stuch. what s going on there? did anyone say, hey, listen, maybe this is a bad idea, maybe we shouldn t be showing purported nude photos of anybody on the house floor. maybe this is a little
inherent contempt, people who defy subpoenas. what are the underlying dynamics here. democrats are having a meeting tomorrow morning to air all of this out. do you think there s a point at which she moves on this? it would to be honest with you, it s hard to see how she doesn t. let s walk-through the options. she could begin finding people who don t come to testify. that seems like it s not enough for a lot of democrats and it s also seems a little bit farfetched. people are not going to cut $25,000 checks every day they don t come testify. she s not going to jail people who don t come to capitol hill. what are the options? if you believe that walking through what the oversite committees are already doing is going to stop people from going to cameras and calling for impeachment, i just don t see that, i think people are well aware. members of congress are well aware of what s going on in the oversight realm right now, and i don t really see how to stop the