Times that trump has mused allow allowed aloud about why the convention cant be held in a Hotel Ballroom in florida. As for the democratic convention, former Vice President joe biden would not commit to being in milwaukee in august. He told a news station his presence at the convention depends on what happens and what the spefexperts tell us at the. For more, im joined by sahil kapur, nse ofa, and michael steele, former rnc chair. Thank you all for being here. Sahil, im going to start with you. There is more open thinking on the democratic side. Liz smith, who ran the Pete Buttigieg campaign, has a piece out in the New York Times in which she says we can rethink the way we approach traditionally marquee president ial campaign moments like the convention. Weve been doing conventions wrong for years. Democrats should rethink how best to use those primetime hour as cross three nights instead of rote speeches, they could feature more dynamic content. What reporting do you have on the think
Day of their vacation yesterday. It lasted through the afternoon. It lasted into the evening and it lasted into those very late night hours. By the end, there were tensions and there were confrontations on the floor. This was even one member who suggested that the president of the United States ought to be placed in handcuffs. One of those bills that had congress approving 225 million for israels Missile Defense system, thus allowing israel to restock its iron dome Defense System which is responsible for shooting down dozens of rockets during the 3 1 2 week long war. The bill goes to president obama who is going to sign it he said in a press conference yesterday that the Missile Defense system is a way the u. S. Can help, quote, to make sure that israel is able to protect to its citizens. Then there was the marquee showdown of the night. Two bills authored by republicans to deal with the border crisis. Two bills that republicans had wanted to pass on thursday but that they ended up hav
The other option for the Democratic Party, which i see as a very sad and tragic option is to choose to maintain its status quo structure. So lets talk more about the breaking news just over the last 20 minutes or so, the list of excuse me, list of Supreme Court nominees from presumptive gop nominee, donald trump. I want to bring in ari melber. What is the big standout to you . These are names to folks pretty regularly circled in conservative rounds . Exactly. The standout as i put it when we just got the news last hour as breaking news, unconventional candidate with a fairly connecti conventional list. These 11 names are many legal conservatives have hailed. Looking at six federal Appeals Court judges been through Senate Confirmation and five state judges, state Supreme Courts and people he has mentioned before, two of them. William pryor and diane sykes you see on the other side of the screen. The rest are new and gives everyone interested in this a lot of information. Most people hav
If you go through and read the oped, paul ryan essentially comes around to saying look, we have these policy ideas in the house of representatives that have to do with National Security and health care and taxes, et cetera, and i believe, as speaker, that donald trump is the best person to put those into action as president. That if Hillary Clinton is elected its four more years of quote unquote liberal cronyism and why donald trump will get my vote. Ryan is still going to run this parallel campaign, chris. Hes going to talk about policy and those policy ideas will come out in the next few weeks. But this is a big step because we had been told by his staff for quite some time that there is huge ideological differences between trump and ryan on issues like trade, like issues like immigration. Paul ryan calling out donald trump about his ban on muslims, the violence occurring at his rallies, being slow to disavow what the ku klux klan and david duke. Ryan has come around here and is bein
A repeal of the Second Amendment. 97yearold John Paul Stevens retired from the high court in 2010. Tonight he is criticizing the constitutional right to bear arms as a relic of the 18th century. Garrett tenney starts off with that. The president and the Administration Still fully support the Second Amendment. We think the focus has to remain on removing weapons from dangerous individuals, not on blocking all americans. Speak of the gun control debate lurched toward the left one former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens took to the New York Times oped page and called for a full repeal of the Second Amendment. He argues eliminating it would do more to weaken the nras ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive guncontrol legislation than any other available option. From my cold dead hands. For years the nra has argued that the real goal of guncontrol activists to take weapons from lawabiding citizens. Today the group said the threat is clear and present. The proteste