attorney could be a very big deal. now i m gonna give you the best legal advice you re ever gonna get in your life. get a great effing defence lawyer, you re gonna need it. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye s
good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye search of the ex presidents florida residents this last week. i ve been watching this as donald trump and his allies have desperately attempted to spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi sear
quote, on an idyllic summer morning from a rooftop high above the highland park independence parade, a gunman aimed down at the floats and lawn chairs and strollers and opened fire. the high school marching band s members sprinted for their lives. bystanders scooped up young children and fled. in all six people were killed. some two dozen others were injured, either by rifle fire or in a stampede away from the scene. the victims range in age from 8 to 85. just hours ago, officials announced that a seventh person has lost their life. the deceased include a 76-year-old grandfather, named nicholas toledo. the new york times reports this about him. toledo did not want to attend the highland park fourth of july parade, but his disabilities required that he be around someone full-time, and the family wasn t going to skip the parade, even going so far as to position chairs for a choice viewing spot at midnight the night before. mr. toledo is sitting in his wheelchair along the par
rights. on his republican opponent focused on inflation and crime. in florida former republican governor turned democratic congressman charlie crist will challenge republican governor and potential presidential candidate ron desantis for the governor s mansion. chris will be here to talk about his uphill battle. the senate candidate in florida is congresswoman and former orlando police chief val demings winning the nomination to challenge marco rubio. and in new york s bitter feud between two powerful democrats for one manhattan seat because of redistricting, jerry nadler defeated caroline maloney. also on the political front, president biden is back from vacation today and will be announcing an extension on student loan forgiveness, a decision unlikely to please partisans on both sides. and a somber independence day in ukraine as the country also marks six months today since russia invaded with boris johnson showing up in kyiv and president so lent skit addressing the u.n. $
look at that, there s a whole lot of crazy right there. election deniers. insurrectionists. weirdos, freaks, you have it all. the republican candidates in arizona, all of them extreme, all of them insurrectionists, all of them people who actually don t believe in american democracy. they believe in their form of government, where, well, you only recognize elections where your side wins. and this is what folks on the far right have been working on for quite some time. what this says about trumpism and the future of the republican party. also, a russian court sentences wnba star brittney griner to nine years in prison. we will have reaction from president biden and the latest on efforts to get her home. and monkeypox now declared a national public health emergency. we ll speak with a top health adviser about this later this morning. willie, we have a lot to talk about. we also have some polls out of ohio. it seems that butter is down by 10 or 11 points, according to h