Good morning. It is saturday, july 20th. Ym Alicia Menendez with Symone Sanderstownsend and michael steele. Today the bending of the knee. The gop pledges its total loyalty to trump. Senator elizabeth worn joins us the conversation with a warning about the expresident and his new running mate. Where the Biden Campaign goes from here. Congressman james clyburn on that. Vice president harris on the attack highlighting what republicans conveniently left out of their republican speeches. Welcome to The Weekend. D. Today Donald Trump and ohio senator Jd Vance will campaign together in michigan. It is their first joint Rally Appearances Donald Trump named him as his Vp Pick during the republican national convention. This was a convention which served as a reminder of trumps total domination of the republican party, despite a promise of unity, the same old trump came out the moment he went off script, repeating allies of a stolen election and blaming democrats for his legal troubles. Meanwhil
Stay with us. Our Special Coverage on Nbc News now and msnbc will continue when we come back in just a moment. We are following the breaking news we have been following now for the better of 12 hours. A former president of the united states, Donald Trump, shot by a gunman at a campaign rally. On Tom Llamas in butler, pennsylvania. Just behind me, former President Speaking under the american flag where someone tried to kill him. This is the scene of a sprawling investigation still in its early stages. L how can a gunman have gotten so close to the former president , and why did he try to kill the man who was once the leader of the free world . Former President Trump hit in the year with a bullet, dropping down as Secret Service agents swarmed around him, guiding him off to safety. This stunning image captured by Doug Mills showing just how close former President Trump came to being killed. That Silver Streak on the right Hand Side of your screen believed to be a bullet flying past trump
Plus, biden says america s forever war is coming to an end. I ll speak to the admiral who oversaw the raid that killed bin laden. Also my exclusive interview with nom chomsky. And i speak to oscar nominated actor, all coming up tonight. All coming up tonight. Good evening. I m mehdi hasan. Police in northern maine shot and killed a 28yearold man named jacob wood. Same day police in houston killed 46yearold marcello garcia. His family says he was suffering from a mental health crisis. Friends say they ve been worried about the mental health of jeffrey healy, age 40, before he was shot and killed in new hampshire. Tyler green, age 23, shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance. April 5th, police in south jersey shot and killed a man. Same day police in honolulu shot and killed a 16yearold boy during a pursuit. April 3rd, a 21yearold man in new york city was running away from gunman and toward the police when officers shot him multiple times in the torson. Gabriel taso was
there we go. this is zack. he s cute, friendly, athletic, and a member of his high school varsity cheerleading squad. but he s also facing life as a convicted felon for something teenagers across the country are probably doing right now. how much prison or jail time is he facing? up to 40 years in prison and lifetime registry on the sex offender list. it s scary. it s maddening. it s outrageous. they had him wearing shackles when they brought him in. how did it feel to see your son like that? i just could not believe that i was the mother of a registered sex offender. more than half a million people are listed on our nation s sex offender registries. estimates suggest a quarter of them landed there before the age of 18. what some of them were convicted of may surprise you. if i could go back in time, i would stop myself. i know there s other people in school having sex. i m the one that got caught. tonight we explore a question that should be on every parent s m