Tim kaine was a slap in the face to Bernie Sanders. Plus, Hillary Clinton and tim kaine hit the road in florida. Tim kaine is everything donald trump and mike pence are not. But some Bernie Sanders supporters are criticizing the kaine pick as a sellout to moderates. Ill talk to sanders and get his reaction to that and to the Dnc Wikileaks email release. Joining me msnbc Rachel Maddow, former chairman of the rnc, michael steele, nbc news chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, and host of hardball and philadelphia hometown boy, chris matthews. Trump, sanders and reaction to the new democratic ticket. Welcome to sunday, and a special edition of meet the press at the Democratic National convention. Announcer from philadelphia, this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. We are at the wellsfargo center here in south philadelphia, home of the nba 76ers and nhls broad street bullies, the flyers. Democrats have begun to arrive with a pretty m
Coverage counting down to the start of the Democratic National convention. Good evening. Im chuck todd in philadelphia where it is boiling hot outside and unexpectedly hot inside the Democratic Party. Who said that cleveland was going to be where all the action was . There is some intraparty feuding going on right here. And not such brotherly love these days on the eve of the convention, Debbie Wasserman schultz, chair of the Democratic National committee announced today just a few minutes ago actually that shes going to step down as chair of the party right after the convention. Listen to that. In a statement announcing her resignation wasaid, quote, the best way for me to accomplish those goals is to step down as party chair at the entd oftd convention. I will open and close the convention and address delegates about the stakes involved in this election. Earlier today a spokesperson for congresswoman martha fudge said she would be presiding over the convention, not the dnc chair. The
In fact, you could say its an expansion. And on Hillary Clintons choice of tim kaine. Tim kaine was a slap in the face to Bernie Sanders. Plus, Hillary Clinton and tim kaine hit the road in florida. Tim kaine is everything donald trump and mike pence are not. But some Bernie Sanders supporters are criticizing the kaine pick as a sellout to moderates. Ill talk to sanders and get his reaction to that and to the Dnc Wikileaks email release. Joining me msnbc Rachel Maddow, former chairman of the rnc, michael steele, nbc news chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, and host of hardball and philadelphia hometown boy, chris matthews. Trump, sanders and reaction to the new democratic ticket. Welcome to sunday, and a special edition of meet the press at the Democratic National convention. Announcer from philadelphia, this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. We are at the wellsfargo center here in south philadelphia, home of the nba 76ers and
The action gets underway tomorrow, but there is plenty that is happening behind the scenes. As you know, youve been watching all this unfold. Pretty big stuff going on. Dnc chairman Debbie Wasserman schultz will no longer be speaking this week at this Convention Due to the wikileaks email dump that reveals that she tried to hobble Bernie Sanders campaign and there are reports now that she is being pressured to not preside over the festivities here in philly. We remember what a big role Reince Priebus had at the rnc, and she has the same role, but she may not be doing. Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort was asked about this earlier today and he said this proves the Democratic Partys process is rigged. There are emails proving the system was rigged against him from the start. The only reason theyre not the nominee is because the super delegates, the establish elected officials in the Democratic Party. The fix was in from the beginning. With us now, fox news digital politics editor, coh
He was describing some mad max america. This wasnt the shining city on the hill, this wasnt morning in america. He sounded like a war time president last night. Very dark. The Republican Party that i worked for, for two decades, died in this room tonight. We are now represented as a party by a man who believes in protectionism, isolationism, and nativeism. That was his as impassioned as ive seen him period and focus. He had a message and it got across. Did you think it was dark . I thought it was an optimistic speech to me. What makes it optimistic . Because were going to solve the problems. The big story today, wikileaks has dumped nearly 20,000 hack emails from the dnc. They show Party Officials trying to spin journalists and how some treated Bernie Sanders with utter disdain. Cfo Brad Marshall writing in may talking about Bernie Sanders can we get someone to ask his belief . Does he believe in a god . He skated on saying he has a jewish heritage. I think i read he is an atheist. Joi