A very happy political saturday night, everyone. Welcome to our very special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, im chris hayes. Im joined tonight by my colleague, rachel maddow, and my colleague, joy reid, here with me at this table here, lawrence odonnell, 70 role, alex wagner, and ari melber. Weve got a whole gang together. Across several different locations. Polls will close in South Carolina in just about half an hour. At seven eastern. Coming up, were going to hear from Steve Kornacki, out of course, the big board. We will also hear from South Carolina voters out in the field, we have a lot to get to over the next few hours, in what has been a crazy last 48 hours of news. This Republican Primary tonight, of course, brings us back to the home state of one, nikki haley, where she was twice elected governor, at high Approval Ratings as such. It also brings us the moment where donald trump hoped to basically end this thing. To close the race out and consolidate his con
A very happy political saturday night, everyone. Welcome to our very special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, im chris hayes. Im joined tonight by my colleague, rachel maddow, and my colleague, joy reid, here with me at this table here, lawrence odonnell, 70 role, alex wagner, and ari melber. Weve got a whole gang together. Across several different locations. Polls will close in South Carolina in just about half an hour. At seven eastern. Coming up, were going to hear from Steve Kornacki, out of course, the big board. We will also hear from South Carolina voters out in the field, we have a lot to get to over the next few hours, in what has been a crazy last 48 hours of news. This Republican Primary tonight, of course, brings us back to the home state of one, nikki haley, where she was twice elected governor, at high Approval Ratings as such. It also brings us the moment where donald trump hoped to basically end this thing. To close the race out and consolidate his con
i did everything right and they indicted me. and what it means to set and then immediately break the record for hottest day ever recorded on planet earth. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. hope you had a good july 4th weekend. we are rapidly approaching the real actual serious for now start of the 24 republican primary. the first rnc debate is next month in milwaukee where the republicans will also hold their 2024 convention. while it s still too early for any real predictions about who voters will choose or how this will play out, right now, speaking as of today, it does look like donald trump is way ahead of everyone else. and that is in large part because florida governor ron desantis, who was initially hyped up is the candidate who could take on trump, has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis line should commit with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 p
joins me live to discuss the new strategy. and, rebellion, speaker kevin mccarthy s far-right flank isn t happy, and that has messed things up in the house. could a government shutdown be in our future? i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. it has been a rough week for twice impeached, and twice indicted former president donald trump. you re seeing a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. it wasn t meant for this. and act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies, it has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. okay, let s be clear. the classified documents, legally did not belong to trump. which is why on tuesday donald trump had to surrender at a miami federal court to face 37 counts of mishandling cl
g7 in japan. we re going to begin right now with nbc s julia tsirkin on capitol hill force. julie, i know that you have no information about a phone call with the president and the house speaker. presumably this took place on board air force one. what do we know? yes, it. debt that s exactly right. i just got done out of the 20, nearly 20 minutes with the speaker. he walked out, along with their graves top ally in these negotiations. you had a conversation with president biden on air force one, as the president, of course, makes his way back to the united states from g7. the big picture here is a from mccarthy, from when we talk to him just a few minutes before that phone call. he said it was a productive discussion, he said the two leaders agreed to meet in person, sometime tomorrow afternoon. this is after the president is able to recover from his travels. it s still the top line number, here how long the that limitless will last, what the spending cap situation is, h