mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham. he should be the first to condemn the epithets coming towards the prosecutor in fulton county but he's not. he's hiding from her. it's almost comical how perfectly lindsey graham this moment is, the guy that lights the fire wants to run from it. here is the other great irony in lindsey graham's behavior in this moment, and i would say go to mitch mcconnell and others which is this. you know what ultimately will lead to the subpoena of donald trump? lindsey graham's lack of cooperation. if he said there was a legitimate legislative purpose. i wasn't doing this on behalf of the president. if he wanted to go under oath and say that was the nature of my phone call, it gets very hard for the fulton county prosecutor to then subpoena donald trump. but it's very easy without lindsey graham for the fulton county prosecutor to say, you know what, judge, because of the lack of cooperation of lindsey graham, we have reason to believe that we need to bring under subpoena the former president of t

that's why lindsey graham has been subpoenaed. his criminal defense lawyers issued a written statement today saying, in my conversations with fulton county investigators i have been informed that senator graham is no longer a subject or target of the investigation, simply a witness. this is all politics, fulton county is engaged in a fishing expedition and in concert with the january 6th investigation in washington. any interview would be immediately shared with the january 6th committee, as chairman of the judiciary committee was well within his rights. to discuss with state officials the processes and procedures around administering elections, shouldn't stand the issue today would erode the constitutional balance of power and the ability of a member of congress to do their job. senator graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena, and expects to prevail. that is every word, every single word that lindsey graham 's criminal defense lawyers had to say. and here is wet district attorney willis had to say today about that sta

lindsey graham has been entrusts -- silent. since fani willis served him with a a subpoena to testify in georgia. he is the only current member of the united states senate to have been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury. pretty special distinction that he has there. and lindsey graham now has one of only five united states senators in the history of the senate who have been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury. we have had 1994 united states senators. up until yesterday, only four of them had been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury. now, lindsey graham joins that exclusive club subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury. when blaine alexander asked fani willis today, why lindsey graham? district attorney willis said this. >> i'm not going to get into the details of the investigation, but this is what i will tell you. election interference is a very important subject. we have been granted a special purpose grand jury by the judges here, i think it is an important investigation. what is important is that the grand jurors hear f

so what about senator lindsey graham of south carolina?s among seven trump allies subpoenaed yesterday by that same district attorney, fani willis. you might think that because senator graham's supposed interest in the election integrity, he would be very interested in cooperating with the district attorney willis's investigation. into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. but today, senator graham and his lawyer said that he will not comply. they he said that the investigations is a fishing expedition -- and then senator graham plans to go to court and challenge the subpoena. today, my colleague got an exclusive interview with the fulton county district attorney fani willis, and got her response to what she will do about witnesses who defy subpoenas, and specifically about senator lindsey graham. >> if you are met with resistance, how will you respond to that? if you're met with resistance to people who say they do not want to come testify? >> nobody wants to come to the prosecutors party, that's part of the work that we d

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so what about senator lindsey graham of south carolina? well, he was among seven trump allies subpoenaed yesterday by that same district attorney, you might think that because of senator graham's supposed interest in the election integrity, he would be very interested in cooperating with the district attorney willis' investigation in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia, but today, senator graham and his lawyer said he will not comply. they said the investigation is a quote fishing expedition and that senator graham plans to go to court and challenge the subpoena. today my colleague blayne alexander got an exclusive interview with the district attorney and got her response on what she will do with witnesses who defy subpoenas and specifically lindsey graham. >> if you are met with resistance, how would you respond to that, if you're met with resistance, people who say they don't want to come testify? >> nobody wants to come to the prosecutor's party. that's kind of part of the work that we do. we'll take it before the judge

at lindsey graham. is making history. making history by getting a grand jury subpoena. >> no shock, no surprise. although this is going to get complicated. we got a lot of issues here as the former prosecutor was delineating. you got some privilege issues. you've got some work product issues. and the other thing to remember here is, lawrence, this is a special grand jury. this is not a regular grand jury this. is a special grand jury that can set a longer than a typical grand jury that just sits the term of a court. the special grand jury can subpoena witnesses, but interestingly enough, in georgia, it cannot indict. so the decisional indicting would have to lie with the prosecutor in this case, unless there was -- grand tory subsequent to this. i don't know, maybe andrew knows, whether they can grant and manatee. and that's the other issue here. people forget, eastman cannot take the fifth like he did in front of the special committee. if they give him immunity. there's a lot of lawyers here that i think will stand in li

graham, rather than senator graham, we don't intend to be in any way insulting.r, we refer to him as mr. graham it to make clear that we do not agree with opposing counsel's assertion that mr. graham was operating in his official capacity when he called the georgia secretary of state related to the georgia vote count. there is a sort of fundamental issue here, the faulty fulton county da's office say these are the individuals who were subpoenaed like any other, they don't get any special claims? >>, yeah exactly. you know, the da is arguing, just because you're a member of congress, it doesn't mean you've got to do potentially illegal acts, for example, calling up the secretary of state of georgia, asking him if he has the power to toss legally cast absentee ballots. and then, there's the question of jurisdiction, especially when you have senator graham, at a time when he called brad raffensperger, he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee, which has a very wide jurisdiction. he's making the argument that falls we early, with his duties at the time, calli

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willis responded to graham's charge. >> lindsey graham actually put out a statement just since we've been sitting here really, essentially saying that this is all politics. fulton county's engaged in a fishing expedition and working in concert with the january six committee in washington. do you want to respond to that, and calling it a fishing expedition saying it's nothing but politics? >> what do i have to gain by from these politics? inaccurate estimation. it's someone who doesn't understand the seriousness of what we are doing. i hope they don't come and testify truthfully before the grand jury. >> we talked to experts -- and what this investigation could mean for the january six committee and the doj ahead. mmittee and the doj ahead. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find i was i

senator lindsey graham. new info from the fulton county district attorney, about who is next. >> could be expecting possibly see additional subpoenas from the people in the former president trump's our inner circle? or trump associates? >> yes. >> might we see a former president subpoena? >> anything is possible. >> the latest on the investigation into trump's investigation -- in georgia, that's next. n -- in georgia, that's next. in georgia, that's next. a monster was attacking but the team remained calm. because with miro, they could problem solve together, and find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose. hi, i'm eileen. i live in vancouver, washington and i write mystery novels. dogs have been such an important part of my life. i have flinn and a new puppy. as i was writing, i found that i just wasn't as sharp and i new i needed to do something so i started taking prevagen. i realized that i was much more clear and i was remembering the details that i was supposed to. prevagen keeps my

as the subpoena says, graham called raffensperger multiple times to our knowledge.etary of state in georgia about election administration and how absentee ballots worked. what the subpoena is alleging that graham is denying that he had any role in pressuring raffensperger as well as the post reported at the time that trump had also as a sitting president pressured raffensperger to find 11,000 votes to overturn his defeat in the state. now we know a current sitting senator was pressuring the secretary of state to in many ways interfere with the election process in favor of losing candidate of the same party. that will be a very bomb shell accusation and should graham have to be able to testify to that under oath. >> and there are certainly some analysts who have thought that this case in georgia actually posed far more legal peril to trump than any other of the investigations currently on going and there are plenty. "the washington post" matt brown, thank you so much for joining us today. we'll certainly talk to you again soon. >>> up next a major step towards nato m

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including senator lindsey graham and senator graham's attorney has talked about how they're going toment today is fulton county is engaged in a fishing expedition and working in concert with the january 6th committee in washington. any deposition with senator graham would be shared with the committee. senator graham has to go to court, challenge the subpoena and expects to prevail. will he prevail? >> no. he can take the fifth amendment against self-incrimination, but that will make him look bad. these other claims, well, there's a separation of powers issue, where willis is an agent of the committee. she's a district attorney. my counterpart in fulton county. there's a reason why we call that job district attorney or state attorney. it's because we're not federal prosecutors. so the separation of powers argument will fall flat. i mean, he really doesn't have anything good except for the fifth amendment. he can try to use the speech and debate clause. when you call a local government official to try to get votes thrown out, there's a political action. not a legislative one. so it's t

edward graham, vice president of operations. he earned the samaritan's purse and after a long career with the united states army, i want to thank him for his service to our country. witnesses will be un-muted so we can swear you in. would you all please raise your right hands? d swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, whole truth and nothing that the truth, so help you god? >> swear. >> i do. >> i do. >> let the record show that the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. without objection, your statements will be made part of the record. you are now recognized for your testimony. thank you. >> thank you, chairman. ranking member and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you or organizing this committee. speaking from ukraine while serving with doctors without borders, we have been operating in over 70 countries in the world. where in line with universal medical ethics. these principles not only formed the core of our identity but are our production. -- protection. as you are aware, i

graham was wondering if this is such a great story what are other peoplereporting it ? there was a moment in october i think just after you published this story where there was an enormous boost post that was when walter cronkite devoted a significant part of 2 broadcast to the watergate story. bob, talk about what the significance of that was to the reporting you were doing and to the post . >> what cronkite did was utterly amazing. they did a 15 minute segment and essentially it's put our stories in the front page of the washington post and it was the whole basis for the 15 minute part and then we had a second 15 minute part prepared was down to seven minutes because what bill bailey ... >> had been approached by colson. >> and an approach by colson means i hammer andscrewdriver and he folded a little bit but not completely . and sally quinn was saying that was just ecstatic about that story catherine brown and her memoirs says at that point the washington post is this local paper. walter put us on the map. and she's right. it was a local paper. you couldn't buy the w

senator graham's brief to the court does not mention one other time in senator graham's decades in the house and the senate. not one other time that he has called secretary of state in another state, to ask about the vote count in the presidential election, or any other election. joining us now is gwen keyes fleming, former district attorney for fulton county, georgia. thank you for joining us tonight. you have experience in these kinds of interstate subpoena cases, what does this look like to you so far? >> i think you are seeing it play out as it has done before. the material witness subpoena has been delivered to a senior judge, a member of the supreme court and south carolina. senator graham has opted to challenge that, asserting that he is protected by the speech and debate clause. i think what you will see next is written documentation from the da team, fani willis's team, arguing that he is not protected by the speech and debate clause for various reasons. some of those reasons include a supreme court case, right on point, indicating that where there are third-party crimes that

what does the subpoena require of senator graham?ll it requires him to show up and fulton county georgia, in downtown atlanta on july 12th. him and six other folks close allies of the former president, have been requested to appear that day. it's unclear exactly how many of them will show up, or if any will try to fight the subpoenas by citing some form of immunity, attorney-client privilege for some of the trump campaign lawyers. but perhaps there is a potential that senator graham will try to incite some legislative immunity. the u.s. constitution, speech and debate clause, protect some members from talking about their legislative duty, and some other motivations behind their committee work. the base on the floor, but this is a whole different ball game. >> yeah i appreciate your floating that constitutional theory. the speech debate clause which is an interesting part of the constitution generally applies to floor speeches and sort of like, things around that. so this would be a novel application of that. but it's because somethin

that was lindsey graham in may of last year. but you know that has consequences. and the south carolina senator was just subpoenaed to testify in a criminal investigation in georgia. >> i mean, you can say that on tv, that's fine. you just can't call the secretary of state and suggest that you want him to throw out legally cast votes. still, senator, you cannot do that in america. we'll get the latest when "morning joe" returns. t the lat "morning joe" returns. we believe our military heroes deserve a company who will fight for them just as they do for us. from buying to refinancing, the loan professionals at newday usa have given enlisted veterans a different kind of financial experience. with more ways to help more veterans, no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newday usa. >>> 46 past the hour. a member of the committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol, the insurrection, republican congressman adam kinzinger has released an audio compilation of just an example of threatening calls and voice mails mad

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senator graham is claiming that the clause of the u.s. constitution protects him from having to testify because of his official capacity as a senator. as you said, that is something that is a bit of a rare legal argument, and it is mainly meant historically to protect people from being prosecuted or harassed on the actual house, on the actual floor of the senate. so the grand jury down here is not taking that argument seriously and is pushing for him to cooperate. so far we do know that he was previously cooperating over the two calls that he had with the secretary of state down here, but he says there was nothing improper about those calls and it is a political effort going on here in georgia to harm him and the republicans more broadly. so once he made his mind up on that, he can stop cooperating. >> we will be circling back with you for updates in the weeks ahead. thanks for joining us. >>> still ahead here on "way too early," we're going to go back to look at the growing problem in texas after a scathing report revealed failure after

what about the inclusion of lindsey graham? >> it's interesting, when you look at the levels of kind of closest to former president donald trump, clearly senator graham has been a long-time ally of his. it was notable in that statement that his lawyers put out there that he really under lined the fact that he would be just a witness to this. he was not under scrutiny himself. and i think they will challenge it as much as possible. i would expect probably similar maneuvering by rudy giuliani. they want to make it as hard as possible and we will see if he prevails or not, but certainly another way where you are seeing and hearing that senator graham will get trump run for re-election in 2024. remains very, very close to the former president, and we can see what happens there. >> and what about the political impact that ripples through all of this? you know, you have the grand jury in georgia, georgia has been so critical in every aspect. the senate races, turning the senator majority, the president's loss in 2020, and the january

but graham is in unique position because he may himself have jeopardy. he made a call.ublicly stated in interviews he felt pressured and was taken a back by graham's call to him suggesting he might count certain votes or that he kind of manipulate the counting in someway and so that's something that may come into play. so i think graham is going to go through the legal wranglings. i'm not surprised by that at all. that seems to be the norm here. anybody that takes the fifth is guilty but then everyone around them takes the fifth. here, graham will say look, i shouldn't have to come forward because of the clause that prohibits me as a member of congress from being subject to process. i don't think he'll get totally down the road with that. the judge had similar types of arguments made before him for the lieutenant governor in this state as well as for one of the state lawmakers. he sort of is favoring an approach to work through some of the objections, some things that may in fact be protected but basically open the door for them to talk in detail to the fulton county sp

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but again, even with lindsey graham, the subpoena revealed new information that lindsey graham calledtary of state brad raffensperger, not once but twice to urge him to toss out what he viewed as fraudulent ballots, which of course were not fraudulent whatsoever. and that conspiracy was debunked by state and federal election officials. >> glenn, you are the former federal prosecutor here. how much legal danger is senator lindsey graham in with this investigation? >> so there are two data points that i think are on either side of that question, jonathan. one, i believe fondly willis said look, we're not looking at lindsey graham as a subject or target of the investigation, just a witness. that's one side, it seems to suggest that she just wants information that he can provide about what georgia -- donald trump did. on the hand, brad raffensperger has gone on record as saying that these phone calls from lindsey graham seem to suggest that i would, i should try to toss out legally cast ballots, as a prosecutor, i hear that and i think, lindsay has a self incrimination right there, their

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a grand jury is issuing subpoenas to several, including senator lindsey graham. rudy giuliani and several others. attorneys responding saying, this is all politics. they are engaged in a fishing expedition, their words, and working with the january 6th committee in washington. continuing, though, another quote. senator graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena and expects to prevail. joining me is blaine alexander. also the deputy national editor for the washington attorney. tell us what the d.a. said. >> this was the first time that she has spoken publically since those subpoenas became public yesterday. one, she said that we can expect to see further subpoenas, more subpoenas of people who are trump associates, people in his inner circle in the coming weeks as this investigation continues. i asked her that specifically, and she told me, quote, anything is possible. here is a little bit of our interview. i want to get you to hear exactly what she said and the scope of this investigation that she's leading. take a look. >> could we expect to possibly se

i should say, having said that it's plausible that maybe senator graham knew something. just because somebody is subpoena that does not mean any sort of guilty. the question is did lindsey graham know something that could important to the georgia investigators. >> republican congressman adam kinzinger just released a come compilation of threatening voice mails he got. listen to this. >> i hope you naturally die as quickly as [bleep] possible you [bleep]. >> you back stabbing [bleep] [bleep]. y'all know [bleep]. like a [bleep]. >> hey you little [bleep]. in front of your house this weekend. we know who your family is, and we're going to get you, you little [bleep]. >> so what's your reaction, congressman, when you hear that kind of awful, threatening phone call voice mails? >> well, i guess i have two reactions as a member of congress, obviously not as high profile as adam kinzinger. but number one, adam stood for the truth. he's one of the few republicans who stood for the truth. the truth is not in dispute anymore. what has the january 6th committee done, it's put repub

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lindsey graham, he subpoenaed. a likelihood that we are going to hear from him, he's already fighting it. what do you know about that today? >> i think what we are seeing down in georgia is an extremely aggressive investigation against president donald trump. alexa what we haven't seen before. we saw the mueller investigation was very aggressive looking at election interference. ultimately, robert mueller decided -- then we saw this investigation in new york. georgia is really fascinating. she should recognize the people did not think she was serious and be as aggressive as others had been in going after possible crimes related to the election. one of the things that you're seeing with the subpoenas that fani willis has already issued is that she is incredibly serious. she is laying the groundwork for any federal prosecutor to say, no one has to be off the table. we do not have to treat this with kid gloves simply because we're looking at people close to a former president. it is a somewhat controversial point of v

and he out and out says lindsey graham was trying to get me -- i have the impression lindsey graham was get me to throw out legally cast votes. it's frick and frac. they stumbled into the wrong fascist conspiracy together. and they talked to the wrong guy because raffensperger has the receipts. >> first of all, joe, i have to say, i agree with mika, what else do you need than the president himself calling and saying can't you just, you know, finagle a few more votes for me? and then the lindsey graham element. and the smalltown mississippi girl thinks, wow, this is expensive to be donald trump's friend and plotting to dismantle a free and fair election at this stage with graham being called now into georgia. and he's going to have to, you know, go before the court and talk about what his role was. and you know, what is the point at the end of the day for these republicans who have just sullied themselves to help, you know, help donald trump -- trump's fantasy, his coup fantasy. and that's where we are. and luckily, georgia, they have prosecutors and the d.a. is taking this seriously. an

graham has been ordered to testify july 12th, the same day as the next january 6 committee hearing.r. trump, giuliani and graham have all denied any wrongdoing >> we'll see what will be revealed in this investigation brie, thank you. >>> one of the republicans on the january 6 committee is releasing chilling audio of threats left on his voul mail at his capitol hill office. in a tweet, adam kinzinger said the darkness has reached new low. >> may the lord god almighty come upon you, your health, your family, your home, your livelihood and i pray that it be god's will that you suffer. >> to both go to hell. >> we're going to get you, coming to your house, son, going to get you and liz cheney. going to get you two little [ bleep ]. >> last month, kinzinger tweeted a letter sent to his home threatening the lives of his family >>> a federal judge has thrown out a trump administration's rollbacks to the endangered species act. under president trump, the protection for the gray rose northern spotted owl and other species were weakened. it comes after a year after president biden vowed to i

there reacts to news that senator lindsey graham plans to fight the subpoena. o figh >>> good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this thursday, july 7th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we have a lot to get to this morning. but we begin with breaking news from overseas. we're following reports that british prime minister boris johnson may resign today. this news comes amid a wave of resignations in his government and calls for him to step down. and taking a look at the famed front door there at 10 downing street in london. downing street spokesperson told nbc news that the prime minister will make a statement to the country later today. >>> joining us now live from downing street, we have nbc news senior reporter alexander smith. thanks for hustling to be there for us this morning. what's the latest, what can you tell us about the situation there? >> this is really an extraordinary and unprecedented situation now. we have widespread reports that prime minister boris johnson will be resigning today. what we know from his spokesperson on t

graham has denied this allegation. >> it's going to be hard to tell what legally will be attached to this. obviously it's awfully suspicious that lindsey graham is a federally elected official from another state calling a state secretary of state about counting votes and asking him if their absentee ballots or mail-in ballots he can throw out at the same time donald trump is telling that same official to find enough votes to put him over the top. so we'll see if there are legal implications to that, but obviously doesn't take much of an imagination to see what lindsey graham and others were trying to do. >> yeah. just a friendly call from a neighboring state, a senator there just checking in on the vote count in georgia. he's of course, a senator from south carolina. the phone call between former president trump and brad raffensperger is on tape. rudy giuliani's testimony is there. >>> the white house is responding to an emotional plea from britney griner to bring her home. she was arrested in january in russia. more on the growing pressure for president biden to intervene in her cas

ros: i'm sure y heard graham brady saying how this would work.this week we could be downed to, is that rushing things. is it a reasonable way of whittling it down so far? >> sir graham has had a lot of experience in these matters and he's taking soundings from another -- from a number of colleagues. coming to that settlement of how it's going to happen is a sensible one. people will have time to question the candidates. i'm sure there will be tv debates but we need to have someone in place quickly. we have a war inkraine, a cost-of-living crisis. we can't afford to spend weeks and weeks and months in this sort of limbo. we need the new leader in and get on with governing. ros: is this a moment for the conservative party to think about what it stands for given in 2019, the big policy pitch was get brexit done. there discussion about whether it has been done but that was the single big message from boris johnson, not the dominant political issue of the moment. what does the conservative party stand for? what would it stand for under sajid javid? >>

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