Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. Im rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and Tim Walz doing the standard Campaign Work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the Sitdown Interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political Photo Op and Campaign Commercial on tiktok at Arlington National Cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle with t
Nonstop on cable news. Not just on cable news. We are hearing the very same thing from elected officials including some republican elected officials. We are hearing it from the leaders of federal Law Enforcement agencies and of the intelligence agencies. We are hearing it from the pentagon. Just this week the new Secretary Of Defense ordered the entire u. S. Military to, quote, stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists. And of course we are hearing it from the Business Establishment from wall street from the Tech Monopolies from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of american life. All of them are now on the hunt for political extremists. And at one level that does not sound bad. Because no sane person is for political extremism, especially violent extremism. We are against it. Were for moderation. We are for incremental change. We are for the consent of the governed. We said that every day for four years and we m
Surrounding hunter biden and members of the press thinking the first son is being a raw deal. Congress needs to stop investigating a private sen and trying to link President Biden to Hunter Bidens conduct. Hunter biden is being subjected here to a level of not only scrutiny but accountability that most mere mortals would not. Hunter biden could be terrible. Never met him. Is being treated worse than anyone would be. This is the son of the president. Hes not a political officer and doesnt begin to compare to classified documents and to the indictment here in d. C. Hunters attorneys trying to set the narrative on Special Counsel saying nothing new here. No new evidence to be found. The evidence that has been pursued by staff and members of media locking for connection has shown it doesnt exist. If the most people criticizing the biden family is when the president calls his son every day on speakerphone he says hello to the people in the room that is not an offense. Thats a loving father.
Weekend. Here the weeks top stories. Standing before congress and from of the same people who aided and abetted donald trump in trying to overturn the 2020 election the very Scene Of The Crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night, painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far that it no longer respects or adheres to the very basic norms of our democracy. Many of you are here on the darkest of days, we all saw with their own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots, they have come to stop the peaceful transfer of st power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose the greatest threat to you as democracy since the civil war. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Remember your oath of office, re defending to al
Remember the Oath Of Office is defending from all threats foreign and domestic. Jesse Biden Screams that americans sew the media knows hes alive. He had frasers left hook. Jesse the democrats and the police state. I think this is all bogus. There is anxiety almost in tears because i did not want to have to do these challenges. Jesse the Oklahoma Toll Licking scandal just got even worse. Plus. [ ] Jesse Abraham lincoln said we shall nobly save or mainly live whos the last best hope of earth. Those words came just weeks after what was known as the Bloodiest Day in american history, the battle of. Where 23,000 americans were slaughtered. There was weight to lincolns words. He was honest abe. In 1941, Franklin Roosevelt articulated americas four ascension essential human freedoms. Freedom of speech, religion and Freedom From Want and fear. Fdr urged americans to defend democracy in wartorn europe. These president s use their words , not to Scare Americans for political gain, but to mobiliz