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I said, No, I think it is very American actually President Donald Trump, in his july fourth address, railing against the threat of communism just days after defending a tactic of his administration critics have described as socialism. and From allegations of socialism to ones of corruption, a new report on the president's crypto coin finds that nearly a million investors suffered major losses, even as Trump himself Rked in a whole lot of cash Plus, Roger Bennett will be with us shortly to preview tonight's huge World Cup match One which will now feature the return of USA's top goal score. President Trump calledall the head of FIFA asking him to review The striker suspension. O, it's a hornet's nest. And it'll be tonight against Belgium. Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe you had a wonderful fourth of July, a wonderful holiday weekend It is now Monday, July sixth. We're back to work. I'm Jonhn Leer, in for Jo Meka and Willie. And with us, we now have Cist and associate editor The Washington Post, David Ignatiious, MS now, senior national seecurity reporter, David Rode MS now contributor Elise Jordan and MS now senior capapitol Hill reporter And you just saw her hosting way too early Val Our thanks to all of you, great group to get us started. We have a lot to get to. It's a very busy Monday morning Wegin with President Trump Traveling to Turkey later today for the annual NATO summit, a gathering of leaders from the Alliance The presresident, of course, has long criticized and at times threaten to outride abandon Trump is expected to push members to enforce their pledge from last year's summit to step up defense spending, a frequent grievance of the president toward the Alliance Trump is also expected while there to meet with Ukrainian President Volododyymr Zelensky as well as with Syria's new president The war in Ukraine will likely be a key focus at the summit this week. early today on the eve of this gathering Russia mounted its second major attack on Kyiv in less than a week firing Ballistic missiles toward the Ukrainian capital, and killing at least eleven people acccording to Ukrainian officials Let's get started by bringing in MS Now interternational reporter Inez de La CQuitera, who joins us live from Ekara, Turkey It has set the scene for us there on the ground ahead of tomorrow's summit, Iran of course will be a topic of conversation, but now also Ukraine Good morning, John from Anchara, where you may be able to hear the call to prayer going off here. But yes, one of the big points of focus is going to be President Trump calling for Allies to ramp up their defense spending. We know that was a big win for him last year when he got Allies to commit to spending five percent of their GDP on spending. Souring this year, you're going to see Allies trying to prove that they are doing just that. We know that has been a big big point of frustration for President Trump. He's talked about it time and time again. And just last week, on Truth Social again, he said that it was ridiculous for the U.S to maintain its relationship with NATO. He says it's a one sided relationship because he says that NATO didn't show up for the U S in its war with Iran. So I think that's going to be a big point We also got a briefing from the US ambassador to NATO, Matt Whitaker, who said that was very much going to be something Trump is going to talk about that know he's going to get allies to get on the road to five percent. and he's going to do that with urgency. So that's something we're watching. We are also watching Ukraine, like you mentioned, We know President Trump has said he wants to now resolve the situation in Ukraine now that he feels that he has made progress on Iran. We know he spoke with the Ukrainian President Zelensky over the weekend, Zelensky saying that they had a very good conversation Trump also spoke with Putin. They had a lengthy phone call, roughly ninety minutes. and this comes, as you mentioned, as Russia has really been ramping up its air attacks on Ukraine. We know overnight there were sixty eight missiles fired at Kiv, three hundred fifty drones, at least fourteen people killed and over one hundred people wounded. And I will say that's not coincidental that that is happening right before this NATO summit gets underway. We saw the same thing happening right before the G seven summit with Russia striking Ukraine on the eve of that summit as well. So Russia, they are clearly trying to send the message You know, they still have the upper hand. They want to counter this narrative that they're not doing so well on the battlefield. And then just lastly, something else we're watching, I think when you look at President Trump's personal relationship with world leaders here, the relationship with Georgia Maloney is going to be a very awkward one. We know they have been feuding. This will be the first time they come face to face since President Trump claimed that she begged him for a photo at the G seven summit. She says that's completely false And again, over the weekend, President Trump mocking the Italian Prime Minister MS now interternational reporter and Ees L quiter reporting live from us at the summit site in Turkey andays thank you So very much. David Ignatius, let's turn to you here First, let's talk about Ukraine. Certainly, the headlines have been very bad for Russia in recent weeks. a real sense that Ukraine has some momentum here. They've shown the ability and willingness to strike deep within Russia's territory. But as Nz just said, Russia tends to try to undercut these summits, both with violence strikes a Kiv, but also President Putin calling President Trump. and clearly trying to butter him up and remind them of their allegedly great relationship. Do we anticipate any progress here at this summit Boy, progress is not a word that fits easily with Ukraine We're coming to a real crunch point in Ukraine, Putin's forces are increasingly embattled, cornered almost on the ground. Ukraine's mastery of drone technology has made it almost impossible for the Russians to advance their death and wounded rate every month approaches forty thousand. It's blood bath for the Russians in Ukraine. And increasingly, Russia is getting h hit at home. It's power facilities, It's electrical heat grid are all now targets of Iranian Ukrainian deep strikes. So I think Putin is getting more and more concerned. What I'm beginning to hear from Western officials is a concern that Putin feeling back against the wall may strike out in some way against other European NATO countries. that this is a period where NATO as a group has to be concerned about becoming a target of Putin as he seeks to escalate his way out of is he's not winning this war. So he's doing two things. He's bombing Kyiv as hard as he can last night was another example of that. He hit last week last Thursday, terrible loss of life in Kyiv, a new level of intensity of bombing. plus this threat that he may try to do something across the border in the Baltic Rublics elsewhere along the front lines. So it's a pretty where Trump is going to have to stand with the NATO alliance that he's not all that comfortable with unless he's otherwise he's going to show real weakness to Putin. And at least, I mean, NATO has remained remarkably unified here about the war in Ukraine, despite Trump's efforts T undercut it, there'll be a lot of tension at this meeting. There always is. And this just we should always remind viewers the one time that the Article V self defefense Pact was enacted in NATO was the rest of the alliance coming to the United States as aid after September eleventh. And for years staying in Afghanistan part of the war and the reconstruction effort. So NATO here looks pretty good. It really seems to be the United States that we're the outliers in how we discuss the war in Ukraine. And David, I want to hear about this briefing call you were on with the White House yesterday because it's dramatically different. Their readout of what's happening on the battlefield was so different from a political national security analyst who speak about this war Yeah, I was surprised. And as David said, there are signs here that Ukraine is doing better than it has in this entire war. There are gas lines you know forming all across Russia at this point. And so Putin's under a lot of pressure. And by some measures, they're actually taking territory for the first time So there was reporters on this call with two US officials yesterday. The first question was, will Greenland be brought up? And the answer from the U. S. officials was the best way to resolve Grein is for the United States to acquire it That's not going to go over well with the Europeans. The next question was essentially and I asked the question about has momentum changed? You know, do you see that the Ukrainians are graining ground and that it's amazing these drone strikes in Moscow? The answer from one of the U. S. officials was noope The front lines have been frozen for the last two months No progress And I try to frame my question is this a moment for the U.S. to sort of join Europe in pressuring Putin to end this war. you know, you have this momentum now And the answer was essentially no, and that the US. is still considering withdrawing U.S troops from Europe At a time when Vladimir Putin is growing weaker And just one broad point the on the cooperation of the U S. war with Iran. As the NATO Secretary General pointed out, there were for to five thousand US. flights, military flights from Europe. during the Iran warar. This narrative that Europe wasn't somehow supporting the U.S. and actually all countries in NATO are now meeting the two percent goal. The Nordic countries are and Germany are on their on track to hit the five percent spending goal T too Trump's credit, you know, he's got them to spend more money. That's all progress. You're not going to hear that from Donald Trump, I think in Ankarra. And those European leaders, of course weren't consulted about the Iran war. They didn't want that war to happen. yet they did in some limited way, mostly. you help out. And Joe and I talk about this in the show all the time, it is remarkable how the White House is so out of step, seemingly with reality about how that war in Russia is going. They simply refuse to acknowledge that Moscow does not necessarily have the upper hand Tough on Europe, easy on Putin. It's that simple. and so it was quite surprising. And just completely misreading European domestic politics, just to mention Merloni was critical It's a political suicide for her to do anything and to cooperate in any way with Donald Trump because he's so incredibly unpopular in Europe right now. All More on Iran now. crowds of mourners are still flooding the streets of that country today For the funeral procession of the late Supreme L leader Akhammi, who was killed in an airirstrike as the U. S and Israel launched that war with Iran back in the last days of February. video shows the late leader's flagdrape coffin on board a truck as it makes its way through the streets of Tehran, lined with Thousands of Iranians waving flags while Dressed in black Iranian media reports that millions are attending the largest public gathering in the country's modern history Hman's body will be transportred to several cities across the country and into neighboring Iraq before he is buried in his hometown The Farewell to the Supreme Ler is a multi dayay event with scores of people already packing into squares across Tehran over the weekend. Some carrying signs en chanting slogans threatening to avenge his death The late leader's son and his successor has still not been publicly seen since his father's killing. There's been reporting that he was badly wounded and also of course, remaining hiding for security purposes. So David Ignatius, I mean among those chants this weekend, lots of the whole classic death to America certainly you know, despite President Trump claiming that a new, more moderate, more reasonable people are in charge there in Tehran, the anti American sentiment remains strong. And this funeral comes as a real rallying point perhaps for the Iranians at a moment of real impasse in these negotiations where Iran, again over the weekend made clear In terms of strait of Hormz It's either going to be their way or no way The funeral to me, Jonathan was a reminder that U an aging leader Ali Humini widely believed to be in the last years of his life presiding over a country that was increasingly fragmented. in this martyrdom and death seems to be bringing Iran back together around the hardest line people. In other words, we've gone from a situation in which change in Iran might have been possible to one in which change in Iran seems less possible In other words, pretty much the opposite of the outcome the US and its allies would have desired. So watching the pictures from Tehran, this mass gathering, it's hard to come to any other conclusion. We'll see whether the Iranians really are prepared to negotiate an opening with the Strait of Hormuz. That's really happening on a separate template W watching those street scenes, you get a sense the country through this war has pulled together in a way that didnn't seem likely when the war started february twenty eighth. And of course, there are open questions about if you went from a hard line regime to a harder line regime in the aftermath of the US starting that war with Iran. You know, One of the pieces that's being discussed during these ceasefire negotiations are what happens in Lebanon. That's something the Iranians have said they need a full peace deal there in order to proceed to peace with the US. and that makes it more interesting, as President Trump told AxiOos on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked for a White House meeting and that it could take place as early as next week after Trump returns from the NATO summit In a brief phone call, the presresident told Axios, quote, We get along very good. Netanyahu knows who the boss is, of course referring to himself And David Rode, we have seen the US and Israel begin the Iran conflict together, but knowing that their interests would diverge in the region, we've obviously hit that point. But what might this meeting look like, especially as Netanyahu seeks to look on the world stage, but then also assuage his own domestic political concerns with an election looming there I think itll look very warm. That's what helps Senate Yahoo and I think Trump is happy to do that. But the reality behind the scenes is that So the six this MOU that was signed that started the sixty day window for the second round of negotiations That was signed. I just checked on june seventeenth So we're approaching this Wednesday will be four weeks of those talks That as far as I can tell I have gone absolutely nowhere They've gotten more complicated. The Iranians are moving the goal posts. They're demanding that Israeli forces withdraw from southern Lebanon, Netanyahu can't do that. That would be political suicide for him in Israel And as was mentioned earlier, you know Iran is demanding now you know fees in the strait and control of it. So U this whole plan in terms of the long term the impact of war and then the negotiations now I don't think it's going well for Israel or for the US at this point All right, everybody stick around. We're going to sneak in a quick break Still headad on morning, Joe, we're gonna run through the new reporting on how President Trump made millions of dollars from his meme coin Well, many of the investors really lost out Also, what House Speaker Mike Johnson is saying about Congress potentially taking up The issue of birthright citizenship after last week's Supreme Court ruling that upheld it Plus We're going to bring you David Rodess new reporting on acting DNI Bill Polty beginning to fire dozens of intelligence officials We're going to dig into the implications of that. And as we go to break A quick look at the traravelers forecast this morning from AU Weathers Bernie Reno Bern, how's it looking out there Foodings a huge concern today, Jonathan from New York City to where Boston all of southeastern New England. And then you have drenching thunderstorms scattered across the area this afternoon better weather in Chicago and also Green Bay. 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Get answers firsthand and publish what they find. Fact based reporting Seek it out if you don't already The reflecting pool has been a big success. and we've got a very the three hundred forty million people in this country that are celebrating two hundred fifty, we did have a few vandals, but all that's going to be repairable and that'll all be fixed in the coming weeks as we go forward. The actual cuts that were made into the industrial liner and that's a you know been measured out. so that's just a fact that's that's what There's fifty foot gash Well, it's multiple gashes that add up to three hundred and fifty feet across that. And so and again, some of this happened early on. there was a where we've installed more cameras. I mean, we weren't expecting that we were going to have a small group of people that wanted to try to destroy effectively what is part of the Lincoln Memorial Okay. That was Interior Secretary Doug Bergam on ABC yesterday doubling down on President Trump's claim that Vandals have damaged the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool amid a sixteen million dollars renovation. Bergham also claimed the landmark, which was closed for the july fourth fireworks display on Saturday is crystal clear and free of algae. We should knowe there've been formal charges now Against some of the people accused of vandalism of the reflecting pool. There's been no evidence whatsoever presented that it actually occurred. At least this has been such a boondogle for Trump and really an on the nose metaphor for how things are going for his administration right now. It's a no b contract that went way over budget. It is, you know something he shouldn't have even done in the first place need to touch. I mess up the algae that was going already. There was al Right. There's green. the water was green and then now it's been being being patrolled by the federal law enforcement. I mean, it's just a disaster. Well I mean, if that's what she wants your National Guard and your federal law enforcement doing Monitoring who's touching the reflecting pool now. if that's the level that we're at for this national security state apparatus that Trump has built, I guess we're there, you know, That's it is what it is. What do you make of it? I'm just surprised. And what's strange is the Bergham talked about now they've got all these cameras installed there. It's just like will show us the evidence of these people making repeated cuts for three hundred and fifty feet and they they just don't, it seems have any evidence. It's a strong look, it's classic thing. It's distraction. It's blaming vandals I guess blaming the far left, but This project has not No and no evidence supported and President Trump's hopes for the july fourth two hundred fifty celebrations wee get did not quite pan out. Extreme heat in DC storms as well crowds not nearly what he anticipated despite his defensiveness on truth social. Meanwhile, there's a new report that found that investors of the president's crypto coin largely suffered losses, even as Trump's financial disclosures revealed that he earned one point four billion dollars from crypto related ventures The cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen was able to trace transactions of Trump's meme coin through a digital ledger or a blockchain. The firm found that As of the end of last month Nearly nine hundred ninety thousand buyers of the mean coin have lost money That's equal to two out of every three buyers That makes for a total loss of three point eight billion dollars As a Friday The point is trading at less than two dollars down ninety seven percent from its peak of seventy five dollars But not everyone was a loser. About five hundred thousand buyers profited from the meme coin making a total of four billion dollars. Nansen found that this figure, quote, reflects a small number of early buyers capturing enormous gains while the broad retail majority absorbed the losses And Trump's own disclosure forms released last week show that he also made money att least six hundred thirty five million dollars from the sale of his mean coin Trump also co founded a crypto startup with his sons called World Liberty Financial and reported earnings at least five hundred twenty five million dollars from token sales through that company But Nansen's analysis of publicly traceable transactions related to World Liberty Financial found that eighty five percent of those who invested with the company recorded losses and they totaled eighty three million dollars Meanwhile, former Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie had this to say about Trump's financial disclosures He and his family believe they are entitled for this This is an entitlement to them. They believe when they came back and won this election the second time that that gave them license, that the American people gave them license. to essentially go and take whatever they could take over this period of time. And quite frankly, you know when you look at the scale of this U Here's another thing apparently that Donald Trump learned from Vladimir Putin during his first term This is Putin esque type of corruption. and self enrichment. Every time he says one of those things, the ballroom won't cost anybody anything. Now we're talking about them wanting to move a billion dollars to work on the ballroom. You know, the American people are starting to catch up to this, you can feel it Governor Christie on ABC yesterday and Ally, I mentioned the reflecting pool is an on the nose metaphor for the Trump administration. So's this, so's this meme coin debacle where the vast majority of people, the supporters, Americans, probably many of whom, you know, don't have a lot of extra money laying around, invested in this and lost. while Trump and a small set of his rich friends and family appears made a whole lot of money I mean, look, it's great work if you can get it. in this instance, great if you can invest in something that you're one of the people who makes a buck off of I think this, when I think about it from a political standpoint, David, is a clear underscoring of why the democratic message going into the midterms is the haves and the have nots, the people who the system works for and who can work it to their advantage, and the people like the regular American public who cannot, who are still worried about the cost of their groceries, the cost of their gasoline, even if prices are coming down And I think that fits the domestic political moment. But then you pivot to some of the national security concerns that have been pervasive, frankly, since these things, like the meme coins and others first came on the market, The question is about, are there foreign investors as part of this? Where is the transparency? And what are they paying money into for? and what are they getting for it, which of course brings us back to the corruption that Governor Christie was talking about there. And so I wonder how you're making sense of this from a global landscape and from a national security perspective. So Aleike, corruption iss a powerful issue everywhere in the world. You think of Viicttor Orban and Hungary. What really swept him from power, remember, he was a White House favorite was a perception Throughout his country that he was corrupt, that he was self dealing, his friends were getting rich And the average person in Hungary was not. And I think there's beginning to be a sense in the United States peopleeople are being in effect taken for a ride here, when you have a situation where the people issuing these Trump meme coins end up with billions, including the president and his family, and the people who buy them end up suffering eighty seven percent losses It's obvious that there's some kind of of a game playing being played on the average person and that begins to make make people angry this sense. These people think they're better than we are. They think they're getting away with something. We'll have to see how that plays out, Trump has been a magician in being able to turn his life as a billionaire somehow into his life as a billionaire populace, speaking for the average guy. But I sense from what I read and what I hear that there's growing anger about this sense that this is a corrupt self dealing administration It treats the public's properties. just look at all the stuff going on in the Capitol. treats the White House, all these monuments as if they belong to the president And people know they don't Yeah, and so many Democrats have told me in recent weeks. they do feel like corruption will be a real winning issue. this November along with, of course, affordability. David Rode, we want to turn now to your new reporting about acting DNI Bill Polty and some of you know disturbing early moves. Tell us what you and our colleague Von Hilliard have found Yeah, it was great reporting by Vaugh. So he heard from an official that firings have begun in the ODNI. That's the office that Bill Pilty iss now temporarily leading. It's the office of the Director of National intntelligence. And the most important thing here is that Trump administrations are going to fire dozens of people because they're suspected of being members of the so called deep state This is the classic Trump move, which is sort of, you know, demonize and distract people, demonize and distract. And it's this allegation that these officials aren weren't sort of providing full intelligence to the officials above them So I guess that means Telsea Gabbard was letting dozens of deep state actors, you know, we're nearly two years into this administration Well, year and a half. and somehow Tulsi didn't notice them Former intelligence officials said this was absurd, this allegation And it's essentially and they also ask like, well, I guess that means the John Radcliffe, the CIA director is missing all these deep state actors in the CIA. It's Pulty trying to please his boss by playing into President Trump's conspiracy theories, and of course The biggest conspiracy theory will be Puli talking about elections and trying to prove Trump's false, false claim that the twenty twenty election was stolen and then Democrats have been saying how much they fear Polty's going to try to, you know, interfere and use his powers. Tulsi Gabbard went down, sees ballot boxes. and other things in Georgia that Hills somehow do the same thing. before during or after the midterm elections. What's your read on Bill Polty's end game here? What is he seeking since Trump has already said that you know he's temporary, but he's coming in like a wrecking ball and just trying to gain favor with the big boss and destroy any norms or any semblance of you know, independent thought at intelligence agencies. Again, the whole creation of this job the director of National intelligence was because there wasn't coordination Before the invasion of Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, thousands of Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis dying There wasn't coordination and sharing of information before nine eleven, three thousand Americans were killed And I, you know, that's not perfect. I don't you should be very skeptical of, you know, secret intelligence activities But I do believe there's public servants, Mark Polymoropouis, who was just on the earlier show who are serving the country in these jobs And it's just the fear of President Trump that you see across his cabinet. So Poltty's trying to impress Donald Trump, his boss. he's in acting. he'll never get confirmed by the Senate And I don't, I guess he's just trying to please the president hope for a But Trump has delayed his replacement pick because he wants the Save America Act passed, which the Senate has said they can't. So therefore P not going anywhere. So therefore Polty is in charge at least for a while, even though by law To be head of DNI, you have to have extensive experience in the intntel Cunity. He has exactly zero. But yet he's making sweeping changes to that department. Already MS now, S your N report. David Rod, Thank you. Thankk you for that reporting. The Washington Post, David Inacious, David. We really appreciate it. Thank you as well. Talk to you again soon Sillad here on Morning Joe, There's been a significant shake upp in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is one of the top candidates drops out We'll talk about what it could mean for that closely watched race, and we'll be joined by another Democrat who is still campaigning Morning Joe, will be right back. A live shot there at the U.S Capitol, A little relief in the weather this morning. It has just been punishingly hot humid Tons of thunderstorms up and down the east Coast House Speaker Mike Johnson says the Congress should work to limit birthright citizenship just days after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order that would have completely redefined U. S. citizenship. Last week, A majority of justices by a six three margin found that birthright citizenship is constitutionally protected under the fourteenth Amendment. I really enjoyed Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. Ebody should read that must read. And he explained that the fourteenth Amendment, the original intent was to enhance and really value citizenship. and it's been devalued because of birthright tourism, which is what we have now. It's a threat to the rule of law and national security. We do need to address it. We're looking at all angles If there's some legislative fix, we'll advance that immediately. If it's a constitional amendment, as you know, it takes a little more time. But we've got to address this. It really is a serious, serious issue Those comments come after President Trump called on Congress to pass legislation following that Supreme Court defeat Many observers were upset that it wasn't unanimous, Alie, that it's so clearly enshrined in the Cstitution, but yet it was six to three with the usual suspects dissenting. But let's talk about here, is there any actual mechanism for this? Again, we can't underscore this enough. This is in the Constitution. It seemeems to me like this is another example of President Trump handing Republicans in Congress utter nonstarter, a political loser and one that can't go anywhere, but insisting, hey, deal with it Exactly right. And I think the speaker there, once again held in a place where he owes a lot of the power behind his speakership at pivotal points to yes, the ways that he has maneuvered his own members, but also having the constant backing of President Trump. And so once again being put in a difficult position to say, o, yes, we should take a look at this legislatively or through a constitutional amendment There is no real mechanism for them to do that by when this is a Congress that cannot even get ono a rule. That is basically the way that procedurally they do votes on the House floor. Last week, Johnson had to send his members home early because they were locked up and could not get the required votes that they needed in order to do the House's business through the typical mechanisms that they do business by. And so we're watching not just a house that is likely paralyzed as some members try to push the SV A much to the president's liking, even as the realities in Congress show that they are not going to pass the Save Act. And so it does sort of feel like this bit of a merry go round where people look like they're going somewhere, but there's really nowhere for them to go. And I think that's going to end up being the story of the House That has the president continuing to say, let's do this through legislation, let's do this through legislation. And the one piece of legislation that they actually moved on in bipartisan fashion, which was that affordable housing bill just a few weeks ago is sitting there stalled in legislative limbo because the president doesn't want to pass it until they move on his other priorities. To put it shortly, it's a mess, and I don't see it getting any less messy heading closer to the mid ttermss, Jonathan Well, an alley with what Speaker Johnson was saying that just isn't true. This isn't exactly a huge problem R pregnancy tourism and shopping because they have laws on the book that really have cut down on it. So if you are actually going to use some of your, you know, billion dollar security state to crack down on illegal immigration, focus on the problem with the laws you already have on the book. Right? Lamirer? Absolutely. And it's just another example of Trump suuddenly been way out of touch with where the nation's politics are. This used to be used to be very good at this and he's wrong on this and he's hurting Republicans. and so many GOP insiders I've talked to in the last couple months are saying, you know, Trump is just handing us a losing hand after another losing hand after another losing hand. This isn't going to go anywhere, but we of course, will continue to follow it in the weeks ahead. Next up here on morning Joe, it's time We'll bring highlights from yesterday's World Cup matches. and ahead of the U.S. Belgium game tonight President Trump's influence has secured the return of a key striker for the men's team We've reinstated Roger Bennett for the discussion. We're not above a little corruption here on morning, Joe. He'll join us next Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co founder of Angie. When you use Angie for your home projects, you know all your jobs will be done well. 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It's the first time in their history that Norway has reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup The wind sets up a match Saturday against England who survived and that's the right word, survived a dramatic three two win over Mexico last night in Mexico City After a weather delay push kickoff back by more than an hour, Jude Bellingham scored twice in just ninety eight seconds before Harry Cane added a second half penalty Angland then held on for dear life with just ten men after Gerald KQuanza's red card, surviving a late comeback from Mexico, they got through it And they secured their place in the last eight Today, Cristiana Ronaldo and Portugal will take on unbeaten Spain. before the United States faces Belgium in Seattle and what is the main event today. The U.S. will have its top score available tonight after FIFA reversed, Florian Balgun's World Cup suspension Muckle it The move came after President Trump personally called FIFA President Johnny Infantino to urge a review following Balan's red card against Bosnia Herzegovina in the last round. The White House confirmed the conversation. There was other lobbying efforts by members of the administration and deemed the outcome the correct and proper decision. FIFA says that Balan's one game ban is suspended on probation but offered no detailed explanation Belgium soccer Federation blasted the ruling and says it's exploring other options. several other top teams of the World Cup have also slammed FIFA' decision. Red cards do get overturned from time to time, but this is only the second ever in the history of the World Cup. lotots of questions being raised. too help us answer them. Let's bring in the founder of the Men and Blazes Media network, Roger Bennett He's the author of the fantastic new book, We are the World Cup. personal history of the world's greatest sporting event Also join us. Pulitzer prize winning host, Pabla Tory finds out and' now a contributor.