Vladimir putin. And the Saudi Crown Prince whose henchmen murdered a Washington Post columnist. And i want to just thank you on behalf of a lot of people, and i want to congratulate you. Youve done really a spectacular job. Plus, trumps plans to big foot americas birthday. Im going to be here and im going to say a few words and were going to have planes going overhead and were going to have some tanks stationed outside. And first daughter diplomacy. Has anyone ever heard of ivanka . The disastrous adventures of ivanka trump abroad when all in starts right now. Come up, ivanka. Shes going to steal the show. Good evening from chicago. Im chris hayes. The moral crisis of the Trump Administrations border policy is more evident than ever tonight. Members of congress today, including congresswoman a alexandria ocasiocortez, toured Detention Centers in texas and heard and saw firsthand some of the appalling conditions. They took all our phones away from us, something they havent done in the past, so weve certainly seen some changes, and, frankly, i wonder if its because they dont want us to document anything, they dont want us to take any photos. We talked to a group of women detainees who said that they didnt have running water, that one was an epileptic and she couldnt get her medication. They were separated from their children. Theyd been there over 50 days. One woman said that the Border Patrol agent told her to if she wanted water just to drink from a toilet. The members of Congress Also tweeted about what they saw, d madeline dean of pennsylvania wrote 15 women in their 50s and 60s sleeping in a small concrete cell, no running water, weeks without showers, all of them separated from their families. Congresswoman ocasiocortez tweeted after i forced myself into a cell and began speaking with them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as psych lodgeal war wear. Waking them up at odd hours for no reason, calling them ugly names, et cetera. Its not just the kids, its everyone. I brought it up to their superiors. They said officers are under stress and act out sometimes. One way the Border Agents appear to be acting out is by making vile posts in a secret Facebook Group mocking immigrant deaths and posting sexist memes like this post about the congressional visit today, singling out congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas and congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez with one person commenting about throwing a burrito at them. Another exchange after the death of 16yearold Carlos Vazquez as a border station in may, propublica reports one member of the group posted a gif of elmo with the quote oh, well and the other responded with the image and the quote, if he dies, he dies. The vile comments in that Facebook Group and the broader culture atticus toms and border protection. That was a vurlg, disgusting and vile page. That shows, unfortunately, that there are many within cbp who become desensitized to the point of being dangerous with the migrants in their care and to their coworkers. One of the things that we see in action, whether its the Facebook Page or the chants that youre hearing today, is a dehumanizing of people that is very dangerous to our country. By the way, those were protrump Detention Center protesters in the background there jeering the members of congress. Now, its not just members of congress sounding the alarm about Border Patrol and the Detention Camps. Its the department of Homeland Security own internal watchdog. Nbc news exclusive reporting the dhs Inspector General warned as far back as may that conditions at an el paso border station were so bad that Border Agents were arming themselves for possible rights. Only four showers available for 756 immigrants. More than half the immigrants are being held outside. Immigrants inside are being kept in cells maxed out at more than five times their capacity. The cell meant for a maximum of 35 held 155 adult males with only one toilet and sink. The cell was so crowded the men could not lie down to sleep. The name of the el paso border station was redacted in the report, but a reminder New Mexico State University professor described a Detention Center in el paso as a human dog pound now, that, to be clear, is a different facility than the one in clint, texas where reports surfaced about children being held in appalling conditions, including inadequate water, food and sanitation. That is different than this Detention Camp photographed by the air from reuters. Mcallen, texas, you can see adults and children sleeping on the ground with reflective blankets apparently jerry rigged to give them some shade. Reuters reports the ground temperature was about 89 degrees. Here with me now, one of the members of congress who visited the facilities in texas today. Democrat nanetof california. Congresswoman, describe what you saw today. Well, i think what weve seen today, what were reading today and what ive seen personally, its more than a lack of resources and funding, its really a lack of treating people like theyre human beings. Its a lack of treating people with dignity and respect that they deserve. And that is part of this problem that is isnt focused on that we need to make sure that we focus on. Well, part of, i mean, there seems to be two things here. Cbp facilities have been pretty awful places to be for years. The toilet sink combo that theres been pictures of stretch back years. Those have been operating for a very long time. What seems different here are the crowding conditions and the duration of time, i mean, how long what stretches of periods of time of the people you talked to are in those facilities . So we talked to some of the women who are being held at the Border Patrol station in el paso for 50 days, 70 days, theyre in these cells, these very tiny cells for extended periods of time. There is really no healthy food. When i asked whats the healthiest food you have . They said maybe some fruit. So thats of great concern. This is the area where you had members of Congress Asking to speak to the detainees. This time around, they said no. Which is why we basically had to force ourselves to get their attention and ask them to open the door, which they did. When we got to clint, chris, they locked the kids in the these rooms so we wouldnt talk to them. And theres a plexiglass you had a small child, maybe 3, 4 years old running up to the plexiglass to try to touch us through the glass, to try to get our attention and asking for his father. Its pretty heartbreaking. But, chris, let me tell you one more thing. There werent that many people. It was quite remarkable and quite shocking. I said wheres everybody at . The Border Patrol said, you came at the wrong time. And so i said, well, what are you going to do with all this money, with the funding that was just allocated from congress . He kind of looked at me with a blank stare and said, well, its not going to be like this forever. So there is so much inconsistency and there is so much concern in new policies and procedures of taking our phones away, not allowing us to talk to people, its causing concern and for me i believe they dont want us to know whats happening and they dont want us to talk to people so we can hear directly from them on the experience. Weve got i believe one of the members that you were in there with, Joaquin Castro just tweeted this video from inside that el paso facility that he managed to show, which is women you can get a sense of what it looks like there. Women sort of crowded around, cramped in the cell for 50 days, denied showers is one of the things that he mentioned in that tweet as well. You can kind of see here so theyre sleeping on the ground. To me, the thing i keep returning to here, these conditions are terrible, but the duration of time is insane. I mean, these are facilities that it appears to me look like theyre designed the way an overnight booking cell in a local jail might be designed, a place people stay for 12 to 16 hours. How is it that folks are there for 50 to 70 days . Do you understand what is breaking down . Youre absolutely right. That is what these are designed for. Theyre designed to very shortterm periods of time and theyre there for a very long time. So the impact its having to their mental health, i mean, look, chris, these ladies were crying. They were begging for help. They wanted out. And many of these said they had family members here in the united states. So i dont understand what the holdup is. I dont understand why they have to be detained for 50 days, 70 days. Its just not human. To have people in these Holding Cells that are meant for shortterm periods of time. I want to just keep and the showers. Thats a whole another conversation. Well, i want to hear about that. I just want to keep to the control room, if we could keep showing this footage because i think its important to stress here. Its very hard, i mean, and im warning what your conclusion was in talking to these women. There is no your estimation is there a Public Safety reason for these individuals to be behind bars in this facility . I dont think its justified. I dont think its necessary. We talked to, you know, a mom who came with her child, who is 18 years old. She was separated from her 18yearold. Theyre telling her shes going to be sent back to remain in mexico and to wait there while her daughter came on. And got into the u. S. So we got no answers today about how theyre treating people differently, what the standards are. They wouldnt answer questions about how they determined who theyre going to send back. And, you know, the showers, there were three showers in clint where the children are kept. Only one of them was working. Two of them looked like they were locked. It was pretty horrifying to see that this is where theyre keeping people. And children. And there is really no need to do this. There aralie alternatives and theres got to be quicker ways to do this as well. Chris, we need to continue to shine the light on what is happening at the southern border and we have to make sure that when we allocate funding theres guardrails, that there is oversight provisions. Yeah. Members of congress should be able to show up unannounced and theyre not able to do that right now. All right, congresswoman, thank you so much for that sharing that. I really appreciate it. I want to turn now to the propublica reporter who broke the story, the secret Facebook Group for Border Patrol agents, ac thompson, who is an incredible investigative reporter. Thank you for your work, ac. Describe the group itself and the scope, the size of the membership and how you were able to confirm that these are, in fact, employees at cbp and not just random trolls. So theres about 9,500 members of this group. Its a secret, private group. You have to be invited in. Its essentially invisible if youre not a member of the group and havent been invited in. Its for current and former Border Patrol, as well as members of the air and Marine Division of customs and border protection, the people that fly the planes and drive the boats. What we can tell from looking at the posts is that a lot of these people would could identify were legitimately active Border Patrol agents at this moment. We cant say how many. We cant say what the percentage is. But certainly the ones that were looking at, we can quickly connect them to the agency. So you were able you did this sort of Due Diligence of running down in some of the more incendiary events of vile, dehumanizing posts just to make sure that those people are actually people who work at cbp . Exactly. We went out to cbp and said, hey, you know, what about this particular agent, what about this particular agent, what about this supervisor . And we have not heard back from them yet, but i can assure you that this is, you know, we have sources within the Border Patrol at this moment saying im on here, other people from my unit are on here, other people from my station are on here, this is a real thing. I should say today the cbp did put out a statement. They acknowledged the existence of the group. They did not deny it. They said they immediately informed the dhs office of the Inspector General and initiated an investigation. That adds to a very heavy workload for that particular oig cranking out reports about detention conditions. What struck you about the tenor of the posts and the discourse in this group . Look, chris, ive been reporting on Law Enforcement for more than 20 years. And ive seen a lot of bad stuff. But when i see members of federal Law Enforcement agencies posting memes about essentially sexually assaulting a sitting congresswoman, ive never seen anything like that. It is so, so upsetting and so vulgar. When i see the kinds of things that are in there, making jokes about dead migrants, making jokes about all this kind of all this kind of stuff that is misogynistic, that is dehumanizing towards the migrant population, that is belittling anyone that doesnt exactly agree with the Border Patrols current approach, that is really concerning to me. Thats a culture of as has been put, desensitization and dehumanization. The Border Patrol union, thats a unionized operation of the federal government, made its first ever president ial endorsement back in 2016 in march. First ever for donald trump. Do you have a sense do we have any way of comparing this era, this culture thats at least in some part of the cbp to previous eras . Because a lot of the reporters who have interacted with cbp have had complaints along these lines that proceed donald trump, quite frankly, both about the conditions in some of the facilities that the cbp runs, the terminology and words and dehumanizing insults that are sometimes hurled at migrants. Whats your sense . Look, this has been a troubled agency for the last 16, 17 years, since it was created, right . There have been problems with internal oversight, with not having a proper internal affairs unit, without properly policing the members of this unit. Historically, from the time it was created, about 250 agents per year and officers of the Customs Service get arrested on criminal charges. That is a concerning thing. And that has gone on through the Obama Administration to now. So there have been persistent problems. But i think what you see now are two things. And, one, there was just an audit that came out by the Inspector General that said, hey, look, we surveyed 16,000 Border Patrol members and 5,300 of them said i have witnessed mcconduct on the job. Wow. Thats a significant number. Thats a big number. Thats almost, you know, thats about a third. Yeah. And so that is a concerning thing, that we see those kinds of numbers. The other thing that i think is concerning that we see in the post is you see this very sort of political bent that that these men, and overwhelmingly they are men making these posts, feel theyre part of some political vanguard. Its them against the world. Right. And this gives them license to behave badly online and they think it gives them license to behave badly in the real world. All right. Ac thompson, thank you for your excellent reporting. Thank you. If you want to learn more about the Historical Context of whats happening at the border, we have an hourlong conversation i found to be extremely informative going up tomorrow on our podcast why is this happening . I really encourage you to check that out. Neck, txt, the president got of his way to fawn over Mohammed Bin Salman, the man according to the cia was the mastermind behind the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. The president and his dictators in two minutes. Jeff, im a car. What . im here to steal your car because, well, thats my job. What . What . . What . laughing what . . What . what . [crash] what . haha, it happens. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. So get allstate. And be better protected from mayhem. Like me. 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In some ways the most outrageous fawning over a dictator was not what happened with kim or with Vladimir Putin, its saudi leader it was saudi arabias crown Prince Mohammed bin salman. Known as mbs. With the Trump Administration has done everything in its power to embolden and empower. Its taken policy cues from mbs, getting out of the iran deal. Something the saudis have favored. Facilitating an ongoing war in yemen that is producing a humanitarian crisis as well as doing nothing to bring accountability to mbs who the cia concluded ordered the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. In fact, quite the opposite. The president invited the saudis to a breakfast meeting and heaped mbs with praise. The crown prince of saudi arabia, a friend of mine, a man who has really done things in the last five years, in terms of opening up saudi arabia, and i think especially what youve done for women. Im seeing whats happening. Its like a revolution in a very positive way, and i want to just thank you on behalf of a lot of people, and i want to congratulate you. Youve done really a spectacular job. Congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota is a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee and she joins me now. Congresswoman, what do you see as the effects of the president speaking in that way, going out of his way to sort of praise Mohammed Bin Salman . Its really frustrating to hear this president talk about mbs and what hes doing with women when we know that mbs has incarcerated the women that have been fighting to liberate women in saudi arabia. But as they say, you know, you judge a man by the company he keeps, and in the ways that hes cozied up to dictators around the world really tells us a lot about the kind of corrupt dictator in the making trump is. I remember when he was running for office, he was asked once what he thought about saudi arabia and he said, you know, they spent 40 million, 50 million in my hotels, theyre great, why would i think of them as an enemy . All he thinks about is how hes going to enrich himself. Doesnt really Pay Attention to the kind of dev statiastation s these dictators are causing within their countries and around the world. You heard today as he referenced kim and how healthy he appeared, without worrying about the health and the wellbeing of the starving people of north korea. The kind of ways that he is really leading our Foreign Policy, is making a lot of our allies worry, and im very concerned. I want to play you what he said about mbs specifically on the question of khashoggi, which is something that the man was an american resident and a columnist for an american newspaper. So there is some some stake here, some equity for the american government. This was his response. I want to play it and get your reaction. Take a listen. If you look and look into saudi arabia, you see whats happening, 13 people or so have been prosecuted. Others are being prosecuted. Theyve taken it very, very seriously. Nobody so far has pointed directly a finger at the future king of saudi arabia. We should note that both the cia and the u. N. Have pointed a finger at mbs, but what do you make of that . I mean, we know that mbs hand are unclean. Our own cia has concluded that he had a hand in the brutal murder of khashoggi. We know that this is a president this is a king a crown prince who really threatens women and uses force. Who has incarcerated so Many Political prisoners in his country. Who in some accounts even has his own mother under house arrest. And other members within the kingdom. This is not a friend. This isnt a good person. This isnt someone who is moving the needle in any decent way. This is someone who has helped cause one of the worst humanitarian crises in the in the fight in yemen. This is someone we should be holding accountable. This is someone who we should be pushing to do better. This isnt someone we should be talking about as a friend. Final question. You referred to the president in his sort of arter for strongmen and dictators as a dictator in the making himself. What do you mean by that . I mean, he has an affinity that is to dictators. Weve seen in the ways that he gets excited when he talks about dictators. Hes very different in the way that he talks about other Democratic Leaders around the world. When he talks about putin, when he talks about kim, when he talks about mbs, there is a little light in his eyes as if he almost envies and kind of wants to be like them. That should be very alarming to the people of our country. And i know what a making of a dictator looks like, and ive said that since the day he got sworn in. We should be very worried. All right. Congresswoman ilhan omar, thank you so much for your time. Still ahead, our first postdemocratic debate polling numbers. Who saw the most significant changes after this. For brokerage accounts. And zero minimums to open an account. At fidelity, those zeros really add up. Maybe ill win, saved by zero the sleep number 360 smart bed. It senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. The queen sleep number 360 c4 smart bed, now 1299. Plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. Ends sunday. Its been well established in both polling and reporting and, well, through common sense, that democratic voters desperate to beat trump have electability at the top of their minds as they evaluate the various candidates. The problem, however, is that no one really knows what electable means or what it looks like. One thing thats for sure, whichever candidate is best suited to take on trump is not going to be decided abstractly or threatly in a vacuum, but by actually watching the actual candidates actually compete for the nomination. Were already seeing the results. We just got our first postdebate polls. One from Morning Consult shows warren and harris tied for third place, with harris up six points from the previous week, Bernie Sanders in second and joe biden leads with 33 of the support, down five points from the previous week. A cnn poll shows larger motion. Joe biden leading with 22 , but thats a dip of ten points since may, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren both saw significant bumps in support in this poll, getting 17 and 15 respectively while Bernie Sanders got a 14 support, a drop of 4 . When it comes to which democrat is likely to beat donald trump, its interesting to note the former Vice President still leads by a much wider margin in the cnn poll, 30 points higher than his nearest rival. To talk about whats happening here. Im joined by neera tanden and the Communications Director for justice democrats. Neera, one of the questions i think this comes down to in terms of approaching the democratic primary, should they be thinking about what other people think is electable, what will defeat trump or should they just look at what theyre seeing and respond in a first order sense to what theyre seeing . What do you think . I mean, i think what actually happened on thursday is that people were responding to what they saw. Yes, agreed. I think what really happened was i think for all of these candidates, part of electability is are you going to be tough enough to take on trump . Trump fights dirty. He fights in a way that previous candidates, previous republican nominees havent havent fought. He took a candidate that was, you know, pretty tough, had issues here or there maybe, but Hillary Clinton was known as a tough candidate, has seen through a lot, and he still defeated her. So i think this was a particular burden for every candidate. And i think what happened with kamala is that she demonstrated in real time that she is tough enough and capable enough to prosecute the case. As shed been, you know, shed been touting that shes a prosecutor who can make the case against him. Then she demonstrated it in real time. With both a personal story as well as a basic argument. And i think thats why she did so well. What do you think, waleed, about this sort of question of thinking about electability as its own thing versus thinking how you think dynamic, compelling, persuasive the candidates are as you watch them as a democratic primary voter. Yeah, well, in the polling right now, the candidate that democrats are choosing as the most electable, the most likely to beat donald trump is obviously joe biden at number one and then Bernie Sanders at number two. And then Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris following. Theyre all pretty different democrats. So that variety of electability keeps changing. And then at the same time, like, we have these voters right now in the most polarized time in politics where we have conservatives who are just going to vote for the candidate who is not a democrat and democrats who are going to vote for a candidate who is not a republican. And meanwhile, there are all these workingclass voters and young voters who stayed at home in 2016 that democrats have to figure out how to inspire, and that you see some talk of it in the media and, and amongst voters who is actually going to activate and energize the base. Thats a whole different equation of electability that i think we also saw on stage with different candidates trying to hold joe biden accountable for his record, whether thats bussing or iraq or any of these things. I mean go ahead, neera. I think i think that the electability question has actually changed if you look at the cnn poll today. Of course, its just one poll. Yes. Kamala harris and Elizabeth Warren are both seen as more electable than any of their rivals. So i think these issues this debate changed a lot of perceptions and it changed in real time. I do think this is a big question for the Democratic Party about what to, you know, what is the Electoral Coalition . What happened in 2018 is that both democrats were able to really bring out the base, millennials voted at very high levels. Yep. People of color voted at historically high levels for a midterm. And bring moderate voters back. A lot of trump voters, particularly in the midwest, came back to the Democratic Party. So i think this is a big question of what the coalition is. But there is there is the possibility of not having to trade off, to put together a broad coalition, and in a way that is exactly what barack obama did in both 2008 and 2012. Yeah, one thing thats always good because we all live on these, like, cross tabs in democratic subgroups, its always the case you can do better by just doing a little better with everyone. Thats always an option. Sure. You dont have to necessarily make some trade, like youre trading players on a team. Yes, its always better to do better with everyone. That is a lesson of politics. One thing thats striking to me, waleed, that alex burns pointed out, which i think signals to where we are in this race in terms of time, in march biden and sanders, who i think are the two bestknown names, were at 47 . Today combined at 36 . Mmmhmm. One of the things i think youre seeing, waleed, is that, you know, a lot of that early polling, march, april, may, june, a lot of it is name recognition. The race really does start now. One debate could really shift things. As we saw with the debate last week with Kamala Harris kind of going after joe bidens record on bussing and school desegregation. I was mentioning earlier is that there are other constituencies in the democratic electorate that might get activated toward different candidates and shift through being exposed to the frontrunner, joe bidens record on various issues where hes a little out of touch with or a lot of out of touch with where the Democratic Base is such as the iraq war, the anna hill hearings, his controversy over the hyde amendment, unfair trade deals. You can imagine Elizabeth Warren, castro, Bernie Sanders doing kind of the same thing that Kamala Harris did in being aggressive, personal and persuasive about why joe bidens leadership and record is not really in touch with where the party is at today. One of the things that i think joe bidens Campaign Team and biden himself is probably talking about right now is, like, what the how they talk about the 40year record that he has. You would think they would have figured that out before his president ial run. Right. But its a long record, right . I mean, like, its one of the things its one of the differences between running with a small record or, you know, three or four years of votes and 40 years of votes. You talk about how youre going to talk about those 40 years of votes. Thats in some ways the central question for biden. The strategy has been to not apologize, to double down. It might change, but for now it has been to not apologize. The truth is a lot of candidates have long records in this race. So i do think the big question look, i was in debates that the first debate went really well for candidates. So back in 2007, barack obama had a terrible first debate. Terrible. I remember it. And people really counted him out, and, you know, he managed to do pretty well in the process. Yep. So it is just the beginning of this process. Yeah. And i think joe biden and others will have a lot to prove in the next round. All right. Neera, waleed, thank you both for joining us. Still ahead, the president s daughter tags along at the g20. It didnt go great. Plus, tonights thing one, thing two starts next. Starts t key portfolio events. All in one place. Because when its decision time. You need decision tech. Only from fidelity. You need decision tech. Book two, separate qualifying stays at choicehotels. Com. And earn a 50 gift card. Because when your business is rewarding yourself. Our business is you. 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Later someone asked for his reaction to putins comments about the decline of westernstyle liberalism, you know, foundation of democracy in europe and america, the transatlantic alliance, and a think that maybe donald trump has never heard of. He sees whats going on, and i guess if you look at whats happening in los angeles where its so sad to look, and whats happening in san francisco, and a couple of other cities, which are run by an Extraordinary Group of liberal people. I dont know what theyre thinking. Western liberalism. Okay. Anyway, there was one more answer from the president that made our ears perk up because it returned to one of his one of our favorite trump ticks, the oe old exaggerated numbers thing, and thats thing two in 60 seconds. Ng two in 60 seconds. The clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. Humira can help stop the clock. 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He tried to order one up, buyer o but it was nixed because of the cost and tanks ripping up the urban pavement. She is converting the public july 4th celebration in d. C. Into a trump rally showcase complete with speech, fighter jets overhead and brandnew tanks. Its a salute to america and im going to be here and say a few words and we will have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes, too. We will have tanks stationed outside. Going to be pretty careful with the tanks because they have a tendency not to want to carry heavy tanks, but we have the brandnew tanks and we have the brandnew abram tanks. Joining me now, Senior NationalAffairs Correspondent who has been covering trumps grandiose july 4th plans. Also with me, cabinet secretary and assistant to the president , chris liu. What is the latest. It seems like there is negotiations between the fantasies of the president and the realities of what it would actually mean. Where have we ended up . Really the negotiations are still going on which is interesting. There was an expectation that it was going to be resolved, but the president who came public about this after we reported it this morning that he wanted tanks and other Armored Vehicles on the mall and a stationary position around the Lincoln Memorial is indicating that this will go ahead, but our understanding is that people are still evaluating to what extent you can have these heavy pieces of equipment we are talking about more than 60 tons for the abrams tanks positioned on the National Mall without damaging what is obviously part of the National Park system. While we certainly do expect that at this point there will be some of the equipment on the mall for the fourth of july. There is still a question of how you can do this safely without damaging park resources. Chris, here would be the devils advocate. Whats so bad about a display of military might . Yes, we associate it with some dictatorships and unfree places, but there are free democracies like france that have this thing. Its a patriotic holiday. Whats the problem . There is the cost aspect and the safety of the street aspect, but the precedent of this. I lived in washington, d. C. And this area for the last 45 years. This is one of the wonderful institutions we have in the city where people come out and barbecue and watch fireworks and have music. No president tried to meddle in this. The last time we had any kind of dust up about july 4th was 1983 when then secretary of the interior james watt didnt like the beach boys and got slapped down by ronald reagan. This has been a nonpartisan event. This is a president Whose Campaign owes 7 million from the inauguration that they havent paid and the National Park service where this is going to be held. They have 12 billion of deferred maintenance of roads and bridges and buildings in National Parks that need to be repaired. That moan is going to be going for the giant vanity project of donald trump. There is concerns about the partisanship. Yes, he is the president of the united states. He gives speeches in that role, but there is new that is the rnc is distributing tickets to the july 4th salute to america kind of like vip seating for donors . Whats that about . There certainly will be vip seating and all of this is coming together at the last minute. The Distribution System is unclear even to Top Administration officials. They are assembling this now and no question that the president will be delivering remarks that supporters of the president will be getting tickets. They are not charges for tickets, but obviously there is a question of who is receiving them and had they supported the president financially or are they supporting his Reelection Campaign . That will be happening and now there will be protests during the fourth of July Celebration which again in itself is unusual. You dont usually have protests because people are in favor of fireworks, although some people are not. As a result you are really going to have a political element one way or another regardless of, for example, what the president says, although it could be a very innocuous celebratory speech about the nation or it could have more of a political tinge at this point. Its hard to tell. Chris, you could have thousands of people screaming lock her up with the monuments behind them and fireworks going off. If the vip tickets were going to people like nancy pelosi and maxine waters, great. Thats not whats happening here. Lets consider this is a president from day one of his administration went to sacred ground and cia headquarters and made a political speech. Every time he hass chance whether its handing off the commander in chief trove tow a winning Football Team or speaking to american military, every time he can rise above it and be president ial, he turns it into a political speech. He cant control himself. There is no reason to expect he would do that here. This is definitely going to happen, julia . Yes. Its worth saying we will have the biggest fireworks display that washington has ever had. There certainly will be a much more elaborate display. The blue angels will be flying and there will be a flight show they havent had in the past. This is going to be a really major celebration and some people are going to love it and some people will not. We will have to see how that transpires. We will see how it goes. Thank you both for being with me. The Rachel Maddow show starts now. Thank you, my friend. Much appreciated. Happy to have you with us. This is Alexander Fleming born in scotland in 1881 who trained as a doctor and research scientist. In 1914 his career was interrupted when he went off to serve in world war i for the duration of the war. He returned back in 1918 where upon he became a professor at st. 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