In an elaborate but rain soaked ceremony. In a world first, the olympic Opening Ceremony was held outside of the stadium wIth thousands of Athletes Sailing down the River Seine. Our Sports Correspondent Patrick gearey reports. Paris, never more spectacularly the cIty of lights. An evening drenched in sound, Colour And CIty of lights. An evening drenched in sound, colourand rain. This cIty of lights. An evening drenched in sound, colour and rain. This was always going to be a more watery Opening Ceremony than ever before. The River Seine but you cant play the plan the weather. Team gbs Flag Bearers were a rower and a diver. They are used to water. Yeah, definItely hasnt diver. They are used to water. Yeah, definItely hasnt dampened diver. They are used to water. Yeah, definItely hasnt dampened the definItely hasnt dampened the spirIts. Team gb are definItely out in full force and the fans on the Bank Arejust amazing. In full force and the fans on the bank are just amazing. I cant believ
Coverage on this very big night. We are super happy to have you with us. Im Rachel Maddow here with my colleagues Lawrence Odonnell and Stephanie Ruhle and Alex Wagner and jen psaki. A huge cast of characters. The whole team is here, the whole Clown Car has been unloaded. Do you care about politics . Do you have any feelings about who you would prefer to win the next election . About who would be a better choice or a worse choice as the next President Of The United States . If you do have those feelings, what were you planning on doing about it this year . Because there are about 105 days left until the president ial election so if you are going to do something about those feelings you have about politics, you know, Tick Tock. Time is short. Were you planning on doing something or just watching . Yesterday something happened that suddenly made a lot of people hear that Tick Tock sound a lotted louder than before. Before yesterday, the Biden Harris Reelection campaign was apparently get
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Then you go to california, the third largest wildfire in the States History is burning out of control. As Fire Season is just getting started, we are live on the ground in the golden state as the Dixie Fire shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, we want to begin this hour with Breaking News on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. This afternoon the senate passed a key procedural vote on the more than 1 Trillion package reaching 60 votes to invoke Cloture And Move forward to the next procedural vote. Ali vitali is following it for us on Capitol Hill. It is one step closer, like the little train that could. I think i can, i think i can. Is a caboose going to come up to the rear and try to get the thing over The Hill and the toys to the little kids in town . Give it to us, ali . Are we going to get to it . Reporter eventually the sense is that the train is going to keep chugging along on the tracks and they will get to the vote on the bipartisan bill, and the thinking is they hope that i