I will see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. We will be back next saturday and sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Prime weekend is next. Welcome to primetime weekend. I am rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been kind of microcosm. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are doing the Stander Campaign Work for any major candidate, and even keel with a major interview Last Night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in misses of its own making, including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting from it. The fallout continues from trumps political fallout in Campaign Commercial on tiktok at the in Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week where he gave a thumbs up at the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of these, blaming the
Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not
what they teach. in the meantime what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that doesn t for us tonight. i will see you next week. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, we have a statement from new york city mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public officials should ever be subject to threats for doing his or her drop. i am confident that every elected official in the city including manhattan da brag will continue to do their work undeterred. and anyone found to be engaging in illegal conduct will be brought to justice. and so that is the mayor of new york s latest statement about this threat to the district attorney today. it s an important letter and could not commit more of a critical time considering the threats, the stakes, the rhetoric. president trump ha
in the meantime this college what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that does it for us tonight. i will see you next week. now it s time for the last good evening, we have a statement from new york city word with lawrence o donnell. word with lawrence o donnell. mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public officials should ever be subject to threats for doing his or her job. i am confident that every elected official in the city including manhattan da brag will continue to do their work undeterred. and anyone found to be engaging in illegal conduct will be brought to justice. and so that is the mayor of new york s latest statement about this threat to the district attorney today. it s an important letter and could not commit more of a critical time considering the threats, the stakes, the rheto
Here. And the white house ought to explain why that wasnt followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. Yes . Has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i. T. Networks since this investigation has been going on . Im not aware of anything like that. Thank withdrew veyou very much. Thank you. Okay. Steve kornacki in new york. That is adam schiff. Just finishing up u a Press Conference there on capitol hill. Adam schiff the ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, of course, the House Intelligence Committee had been pursuing interference of the status of that committees investigation now some quwhat i question. Theres been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that
statement you just heard there, that Press Conference,