0 no matter who wins and who loses in the election in november, the people cannot lose the sacred right to vote in this country. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. msnbc special coverage of the democratic national convention starts now. the republicans kept their party s last president far away from their convention. but the democrats tonight put their last president in the primest of primetime. tonight night two of the democratic convention puts the famous clinton/obama drama to work for the democratic campaign. and the auto bailout. elizabeth warren, the nuns on the bus, planned parenthood, mitt romney s bain capital legacy, and not in a good way. an undocumented immigrant speaking for the first time in convention history. if last night was for the first lady and tomorrow is for the president, tonight is all about hardball politics. msnbc s primetime coverage of the democratic national convention night two begins right now. thank you for joining us. i m rachel maddow here at m
president, tonight is all about hardball politics. msnbc s primetime coverage of the democratic national convention night two begins right now. thank you for joining us. i m rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york. i m with ed shultz and reverend al sharpton and chris hayes as well as steve schmidt. our fence lawrence o donnell will be joining us shortly as well. and leading our coverage from charlotte, north carolina, from the site of the democratic convention this year is our friend and colleague chris matthews and a lot of his friends who he is there with. chris, you re a very popular man in charlotte tonight. i ve got to you if tonight is essentially afterglow from michelle obama s speech or is there a separate second night agenda for the democrats here leading up to the bill clinton speech? rachel, it looked for awhile there there were two versions of the democratic party. there was the clinton version and the barack obama version. that was a wrong perce
debby will be across central and southern florida. 10 plus, and in some cases 20 inches of rain across the northern part of the pen nis la. the expected track is it will move out to sea and maybe become a tropical storm once again but we ll be done with it soon. the heat the other big story, temperatures up over 100 degrees again and today that heat will be making its way off to the east a little bit, highs well over 100 creeping eastward towards the east coast. this is not good news for firefighters struggling with heat again in colorado. thanks, rob. two of washington s veteran lions each turning back primary challenges, 78-year-old orrin hatch won the republican senate primary and defeated dan lodgen quist, hatch is trying for a seventh term in the senate. in new york, charlie rangel also celebrating a primary victory this morning. he held off opponents to keep the dream of a 22nd term of congress in alive. it was thought the 82-year-old s career might be over because of
their act together on that. that was expected. the unexpected thing that happened was this. president bush s own party, the republicans in congress who said no. they banded together as a group along with a couple democrats and they filibustered the president of their own party s immigration reform. the bill itself was bipartisan, the mccain-kennedy immigration bill, standing alongside john mccain and ted kennedy in the press conference were other republicans like jon kyl and johnny isakson, but they voted to filibuster their own bill. there has been a really weird battle for the soul of the republican party on this issue for the last 20 years. and the once upon a time george w. bush, john mccain, lindsey graham wedge of the party, those guys lost the fights within their own party. they either got out of politics or reversed their position on the issue or they now just refuse to take a position on the issue or work on it. now when it comes up, they hope
something completely expected and something completely unexpected happened. the expected thing is congress congress could not find a way to get its act together on that. that was expected. the unexpected thing that happened was this. president bush s own party, the republicans in congress who said no. republicaned banded together as a group, along with a couple of democrats, and they filibustered the president of their own party s immigration reform. the bill itself was bipartisan, the mccain-kennedy immigration bill, standing alongside john mccain and ted kennedy in the press conference in which the bill was unveiled, where other republicans like jon kyl and johnny isakson. but when it came time to vote, jon kyl and johnny isakson voted to filibuster their own bill. there has been a really weird battle for the soul of the republican party on this issue for the last 20 years. and the once upon a time george w. bush, john mccain, lindsey graham wing of the party, those guys lost the fig