Hurricane laura. There is heavy damage along the gulf coast, where the storm made landfall as a category 4. But search and rescue operations have just been suspended. The halt was caused by a plant fire that has spawned a chemical cloud right along interstate 10. Youre looking at that image. Were going to go live to louisiana in just a moment. We expect to see President Trump this afternoon as well. He will visit fema headquarters to be briefed on the storm response. And later, he is going to blur the lines between campaigning and governing again as he accepts his partys nomination for another term from the lawn of the white house. If you believe Jared Kushner, mr. Trump will offer a hopeful vision of america. But leaked excerpts of the speech sound less hopeful. Politico reports the president will unload on joe biden in a blistering convention speech. He will claim that he has spent his first term reversing joe bidens damage. All of this against the backdrop of extreme unrest that is
Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. Well, at the end of the hour, we all met her on television on the first night of the democratic convention. Hi. Im kristin arkesa. Im one of the many who has lost a loved one to covid. My dad was a healthy 65yearold. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that he paid with his life. Kristin will get tonights last word. Kristin is one of many who made the case against donald trump at the Democratic National convention. But four years earlier, donald trump made the case against Donald Trumps reelection and he did it, as donald trump would say, very strongly. Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally. Some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you, the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and i mean very soon, come to an end. Beginning on january 20th of 2017
From msnbc, decision 2020. The Republican National Convention Live from studio 3a in rockefeller plaza. Thank you for being with us tonight. Im Rachel Maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with my coconspirators from a safe six foot distance. Brian williams will be with us later on tonight once we are really punchy. Were happy to have you with us tonight on what is proving to be a very, very busy and parent news day with a lot of major stories developing late into the evening tonight. And over the course of this hour as well. We can tell you that our broadcast tonight, weve got lots of plans, but things we fully expect may not go according to our first draft of plans just because so many of these stories are still developing and are so big. Now, obviously, at baseline tonight is night three of the Republican National convention or at least the made for tv presentation that looks like a Republican National convention, even though that technically finished for the Republica
High school pitcher myself at the time. You would just sit there like a student and just try to memorize every bit of it. He was just a genius on the mound. Hall of fame is an achievement, but even its sort of not big enough to explain what he was. Yeah, and a wonderful person. A truly wonderful person. Thats absolutely right. Im so glad you included that in his bio. Well, at the end of the hour, we all met her on television on the first night of the democratic convention. Hi. Im kristin arkesa. Im one of the many who has lost a loved one to covid. My dad was a healthy 65 year old. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that he paid with his life. Kristin will get tonights last word. Kristin is one of many who made the case against donald trump at the Democratic National convention. But four years earlier, donald trump made the case against Donald Trumps election and he did it, as donald trump would say, very strongly. Americans watching this address tonight h
You cant stop it with a tweet. You cant create a distraction and hope it will go away. It doesnt go away. By its nature, a pandemic is unforgiving. If you get it wrong at the beginning the consequences are catastrophic and its very hard to catch up. You dont get a Second Chance at getting it right. Well, President Trump, you got it wrong from the beginning and then he got it wrong again and again. Senator Kamala Harris reality check to a nation reeling under multiple crises is where we start today. Washington post columnist Eugene Robinson and Associated Press White House Reporter jonathan hemere, democratic strategist ayesha mills will join us in a few moments. If you had intel about all the places where you could hurt donald trump the most politically, and then wrote a speech about those places, that was the speech senator harris delivered today. Well, we just saw right there, nicolle, one of the reasons why senator harris is on the ticket. They saw her time in the senate in a number