this week the republican party gathered in tampa to tell a terrible and tragic tale of american decline. they couldn t quite say that explicitly, of course. this is the party of reagan and sunny optimism or so they d like to present themselves. but you couldable help notice that the three days of speeches on the convention floor were an orgy of days gone by. the packaging for this message was an insist stent indication of american greatness. as rachel maddow s team covered it, almost every single speaker told a story of upward mobility usually taken from their own family s past, tracing the arc of the american dream that brought them to the podium. my dad got his first job when he was 6 years old. my dad was a truck driver. my dad grew up in poverty. my dad came from nothing. working in a meet-packing town. as a way dough. didn t have much. basement apartment. pasta and tuna fish. single mother. working class. working class. came from nothing. she go
explicitly, of course. this is the party of reagan and sunny optimism or so they d like to present themselves. but you couldable help notice that the three days of speeches on the convention floor were an orgy of days gone by. the packaging for this message was an insist stent indication of american greatness. as rachel maddow s team covered it, almost every single speaker told a story of upward mobility usually taken from their own family s past, tracing the arc of the american dream that brought them to the podium. my dad got his first job when he was 6 years old. my dad was a truck driver. my dad grew up in poverty. my dad came from nothing. working in a meet-packing town. as a way dough. didn t have much. basement apartment. pasta and tuna fish. single mother. working class. working class. came from nothing. she got on a bus. took three different buses. every workday for years. every day to get to work. cleaning sheep pens. poor farm bo
record? absolutely. and it s important not to fall prey to i think very older, conventional ways of thinking in the criminal justice system. we talk a good game about restorative justice, about rehabilitation. never in my wildest nightmare did i ever think i d become an scam example of this. does city hall hurt you with what you re going through? it s not been my style. i ve never been a cliquish kind of guy. that fraternity i probably could have learned from that. you said you were talking or contemplating perhaps divorce before this whole thing exploded. has this whole episode in a way brought you together or has it torn apart your family even more? one of the gifts, i think, it s like we are stronger. i don t have any absolutely doubt that we are a family. i think it s a strong feeling inside me and i think it s a strong feeling inside ross. so we are a family. we have to be together. and it s why we are safe in everything. it is wrong, what is happening, not j
clinton offered this warning to russia and china, who have opposed efforts to have syrian president assad removed from power. i will tell you very frankly, i don t think russia and china believe they are paying any price at all, nothing at all for standing up on behalf of the assad regime. the only way that will change is if every nation represented here directly and urgently makes it clear that russia and china will pay a price. clinton also argued for united nations sanctions. the u.n. could still authorize the use of force to topple assad s regime. not a good number for president obama. a weak jobs report left the unemployment rate at 8.2%. that means nearly 13 million people are jobless and a large number of them have been out of work for at least six months. the news pushed the markets down. the dow finishing down 124 points. needless to say, the jobs report is a big deal on the campaign trail, but as our white house correspondent dan lothian reports, it was espe
now lawmakers are trying to change that. it s our 10:30 talker. we start this hour with the weather. we are all hoping for a break from this oppressive heat. well, sorry, not today. i hate to see all that red on these maps we re about to show you, but those are the heat warnings. and as you can see, it is going to be pretty bad today. the record triple-digit temperatures are being blamed for at least five deaths. and don t forget about the 350,000 people still without power after storms tore through the atlantic states last week. it has been a week with no power and no air conditioning, but in many of those places, cooling centers have opened up to help try to cool people down. now to afghanistan and a commitment from the united states. secretary of state hillary clinton spelled out the partnership that will take the two countries beyond the planned troop withdrawal in 2014. afghanistan is now designated a major non-nato ally. that means the u.s. will keep up defense, s