Stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stakes are higher this time around, candidates fundraising boost out of this debate to get their campaigns to keep going. And also to qualify for the next debate. They all have to get momentum out of this. Previous years, republican president ial primaries, by this time in the calendar highprofile candidates had already started dropping out. So, if past is prologue, its
Im Rachel Maddow here in msnbc with my beloved colleagues, chris hayes, joy Reid Stephanie ruhle. Great to all be together in this difficult time we will be joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom in a little bit. He was there at the debate, god bless and we will get his take on what went down tonight the debate is just now wrapping up after two hours of talking stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stake
And the late senator john mccain, the president described a Battle For The Future of our country against a movement led by the former president , facing criminal charges for trying to overturn an election, while also running for the white house for a third time. There is something dangerous happening in america right now. There is an Extremist Movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy, the Maga Movement. Not every republican, not even a majority of republicans adhere to the maga extremist ideology. I know because ive been able to work with republicans my whole career. But there is no question Todays Republican Party is driven and intimidated by maga republican extremists. Their extreme agenda carried out with fundamentally all the institutions of institutions of american democracies as we know it. My friends, theyre not hiding their attacks. Theyre openly promoting them, attacking the free press as the enemy of the people. Attacking the rule of law as an impedimen
these cases. and what? the worst-case mario might be that you get a knock at your door from the sergeant at arms, maybe a slap on the wrist? best-case an aerial, politically, you get a badge of honor that you stuck it to the man. they were really more afraid of ignoring a doj criminal subpoena then a congressional one and they took their chances time and time again that the doj wouldn t prosecute you for laughing at a congressional subpoena. you know what else? in the past, that very thought process paid off. but now, this conviction, well this series of convictions, now puts the light back in the dog because when you are facing some jail time suddenly people start to take your requests more seriously. now, people like congressman jimmy jordan of ohio who, incels, you will recall was roundly criticized for, shall we say, not prioritizing congressional subpoenas aimed at him. now he is in leadership. so the big question is what we see the flood gates began to open and subpoena
you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. any minute now, president biden will meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy as he makes a direct appeal for u.s. aid for their grueling fight against russia. and it is in russia where allies have imprisoned putin foe navalny are sounding the alarm, saying they haven t heard from him in days and his whereabouts remain unknown. plus, the big cop 28 climate change summit forced into overtime after activists warned a deal was in complete failure. plus, decision day. the embattled president of harvard will keep her job after nearly over a week of outcry over the speech she made about antisemitism. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments and we start with ukraine s leader sitting down with ukraine s leader sitting down with president biden any minute now. kelly, set the stage for us. the stakes are particularly high and they have been in different ways each time zelenskyy has come to the united states an