Dinner when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We are about an hour away from a pretty remarkable and genuinely unpredictable moment in this campaign. Hillary clinton and donald trump set to taking the stage at the Al Smith Charity Dinner at the waldorf astoria in manhattan. Its a highsociety event, candidates of the past come together to crack selfdeprecating jokes, generally offer a reprieve from the acrimony, nastiness of the campaign trail. The candidates are scheduled to speak within the hour. We will bring you their remarks in full when they happen because this year, well, is very different. This time around one of the president ial candidates has transgressed almost every conceivable political norm, been repeatedly accused of sexual assault, vowed to throw his opponent in jail if he wins and just last night would not agree to accept the outcome of the election. This afternoon, trump held a Campaign Rally in ohio and youre never going to guess hi
This is al smiths greatgrandson introducing one of the candidates. Lets go to it. I was thinking about the republican nominee, donald j. Trump. There are actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show up tonight. He could say he wanted to keep us in suspense. We considered having a donald trump cutout on the dais, but if we wanted someone still lifeless, we could ask charlie rose to speak again. It is stark that donald is here tonight. Thats right, for the first time, a Catholic Church is not the largest tax exempt land owner here tonight. We are honored to have donald and melania here tonight. The Al Smith Dinner is a new york institution. Donald, the kid from queens, with a big heart and a big mouth is without question a new york institution. Donald, the microphone is yours, and its working. Thank you, al, wow, that was good. This is a hell of a dipper. Dinner. I want to thank your eminence. This is really great to be with you again. We love it. Governor cuomo. Great s
If youre noticing a trend here, youre right. Because it was also Democratic Party in 1928 that made the first nomination of a catholic for president in this country. And that was new york governor al smith. Among the many Glass Ceilings that the Democratic Party has broken in president ial and Vice President ial politics, he was the first major catholic to be a major president ial nominee. And he got shellacked. Hubert hoover beat him in 40 states. That was at a time when we only had 48 states. Poor al smith. But he is still remembered and honored among new york catholics, most notably with this dinner they hold every year which is an Election Year turns out to always be lousy with politicians. This is al smiths greatgrandson introducing one of the candidates. Lets go to it. I was thinking about the republican nominee, donald j. Trump. There are actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show up tonight. He could say he wanted to keep us in suspense. We considered having
it s for a strong economy. look what republicans have done. when came to office, the economy was flat on its back. millions out of work. remember seeing all those food lines, people in nice-looking automobiles, waiting for an hour and a half to have a box of food put in their trunk. the united states of america, in the united states of measuring, that was happening. all across america. the most anemiaic job performance since hubert hoover was in police. that s not hyperbole. that s a fact. so we acted quickly. we passed the economic rescue plan. and every single republican voted for it. 10 million more jobs have been