Up to dejoys testimony. Donald trump escalating his routine attacks on the mailin vote, and now adding a fresh line of attack on inperson voting, alleging that theres rampant fraud at polling places too, and vowing to send in a heavy Law Enforcement presence on election day. Its difficult to look at all of that from the president as anything other than his fear of losing and resorting to cheating to undermine the november contest. It may be at this point his best and only chance at squeaking out a victory in november. Donald trumps fears may have been emboldened by joe bidens performance last night. Biden delivering a surgical dissection of Donald Trumps record and legacy so far. And making his case for an alternative vision of what this country can be. It amounted to a full dismantling of Donald Trumps lines of attack against bidens fitness. Not a gaffe or stumble in sight. The current president has cloaked american darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much d
Michigan attorney general about that massive settlement for victims of the flint water crisis. Ill ask her who will be getting the bulk of the money. Thats coming up. First, lets go to capitol hill where a house vote is nearing over a bill that would provide 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and ensure that the postmaster general doesnt implement any changes to the post office until after the end of the year. Nbcs Leanne Caldwell is following it on capitol hill and joins me now. Whats latest on the deliberations . Reporter well, 73 days before an election, this issue has become deeply partisan and deeply political. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said earlier today that all this talk by the president about mailin ballot, mailin voting, and the Postal Service is an attempt to suppress the vote. And this vote thats going to happen later today is expected to happen mostly along party lines. White house chief of staff is on capitol hill today, and he spoke with reporters just moments
Jedediah that is true. I felt like you couldnt see a good sunrise or sunset in places like new york. I always had to go to florida for that. Doing on this show we show a lot of cool scenes that happen real early in the morning. You have to be grateful. A great start. Great to see both of you today. I hope you guys have your seatbelts fastened. This is going to be a wild week. The rnc kicking off tomorrow. President trump is traveling to charlotte as previews a positive message. There was lot of talk about the dnc being a little gloomy, being depressing. They were trying to tap into a sentiment of empathy. But lots of themes were missing. What is the rnc going to look like . Lets take a sneakpeek. The theme is honoring the Great American story. Tomorrow, land of heroes, tuesday land of promise, wednesday, land of opportunity and thursday, land of greatness. The expectation there will be some tribute paid to the values that built this country. They will acknowledge some turmoil going on,
Were the ports against that storm not the storm itself. Sure, you could be sympathetic to a cause, but you cant sacrifice the high ground. You must condemn the mobbery of wednesday for two reasons. One, its despicable. Two, excusing it means you can also excuse the rabble that you arent sympathetic for. You dont need to listen to any of the tv hypocrites. Dont take moral lectures from one whanyone who used the phrase mostly peaceful when describing riots. We heard a lot about the capitol as a sacred place. To a guy who puts his life into a small business, thats pretty sacred too. So its about consistency and hypocrisy. Heres how some of the media covered wednesdays ugliness. Ve what would i do if black lives matter dropped 30,000 black people on the nations capitol and laid siege to the seat of power. Nobody was ready. Or of was it okay because they are white . I dont think this would have happened with black lives matters protesters. If these insurrectionists were black they would hav
Connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, rhode island, hitting 60 in rhode island, also in delaware. These are some of the biggest margins we have seen to date for donald trump. As for Hillary Clinton, she went four for five. Connecticut, delaware, maryland, and pennsylvania. Pennsylvania being the biggest prize. Bernie sanders did pick up one win. He won the state of rhode island. What does this mean for the delegates . Right now it is about delegate math. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton won 214. Crucially, Hillary Clinton nets 54 delegates. This is at a time when Bernie Sanders really needed to be closing that gap. As for the republicans right now, donald trump, he picked up 142 delegates. Look how far ahead he is of ted cruz and john kasich. They have just five. This does include some of the pennsylvania unbound delegates who say to cnn they are committed to voting for donald trump. He organized well in that state. Overall on the delegate map, lets take a look at where