Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s 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 wi
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
Movement led by sdon don. He is mon shod the 13 13 times. Trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. New york times describing the president s State Of The Union quote unleashed an unyielding. Mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown. While he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. He men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. We will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. He was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. President biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. With us at the Table Board Member Analyst is here and National Affairs analyst is here. The host of politics nation here, and the president of the Nation
Welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The banks and Financial Institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand . They cannot be happy right now. Will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money . Could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently . Well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. Back in the early 1990s, trumps Business Empire was on the brink of insolvency. He had stretched himself thin, with casinos in Atlantic City and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. Trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. And these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in Donald Trumps finances. Trump had long cast himself as a winner. Now he was looking like a loser. As quickly as the banks loved him, thats as quick
Welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. He is tall, lean, and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like robert redford. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs, and at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth more than 200 million. That is how the New York Times described donald trump in 1976. If you asked donald trump then and now, hed say his most valuable asset was his brand. And for decades, the name trump has been synonymous with wealth. Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius, want to be rich . Be like trump. You walk down the street sometimes, and people will touch you just for the good luck. Ive never figured that out of never really understood it. But its something thats been happening. And i took great offense that. And now i guess not to get at considered a compliment. I dont know what it is. But perhaps theyre going into a deal, or theyre going up to