If it wasn't for your vote, we would not have Joe Biden in the White House.

That was a constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states.

The states conduct our elections.

We never wanted to wash an MDC around elections.

Constitutional courts know authority for the vice president or anyone else to reject votes

or return votes to the states.

Never been that before.

Should never be done in the future.

I'm sorry, ma'am, but that's actually what the Constitution says.

President Trump is wrong about my authority that he's still wrong.

So that is former vice president Mike Pence in Iowa yesterday, defending himself after a woman falsely claimed

he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results.

A calm take down of that conspiracy theory.

Good morning. Welcome to morning Joe.

It is Thursday, July 6th.

With us this morning, we have U.S. Special correspondent for BBC News, Cady Kay, the host of way too early, White House bureau chief of political Jonathan Lamir,

Professor at Princeton University, Eddie Glau, Jr., and MSNBC legal analyst Danny Savalo.

Danny, we got a busy morning for you just ahead.

But John, that was a fascinating moment at the pizza ranch in Su City.

A place a lot of us have been in the campaign trail.

Where Mike Pence, for all the criticisms we've rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years,

it was sort of a measured take down and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold as you write about in your book, The Big Lie.

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