Weekend. It doesnt have to be, but it probably will be and kind of according to the liturgy should be. So im back just in time for the Vice President ial announcement. Missed you terribly, lawrence. Welcome back. Thank you, rachel. Thank you very much. Post office, post office, post office. I say that tonight in the spirit of my friend and colleague tim russert who famously told us on Election Night 2000 that it was all going to go down to florida, florida, florida. This time it is all going to come down to the post office. If the Postal Service can deliver the mail as it always has when delivering mailin ballots, donald trump is going to lose the president ial election. Thats what the polls say anyway. So the undermining of the post office that were seeing now did not begin with donald trump. It began with republicans pretending that the post office should turn a profit or at least break even from the sale of stamps or maybe be privatized. And the key to that kind of thinking was a ph
Other parts of it. But on top of ukraine, between ukraine and the baltic states, is the large and still quite soviet country of belarus. Belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. They established a new form of government. They constituted themselves as the republic of belarus. They held an election for president of that republic for the first time in 1994. In that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. Again, they picked him in 1994. He is still there today. I say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europes last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. But belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally its a republic. It is a place that holds elections. And those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. But in practice, those two things often come together. I mean if you think about
Crash of 2008 and the ensuing great recession. Millions and millions of americans forced out of their homes, having their homes foreclosed on. And of course this was not a natural disaster. This was brought about by bad behavior by banks and mortgage lenders behaving in a wildly, terribly destructive way. These terrible, deceptive, predatory practices from banks and mortgage lenders. The foreclo closure crisis hit california harder thanl any other state. A fifth of the nations foreclosures were in california alone. But the crisis did hit all 50 states and when Kamala Harris became attorney general in california, at that time the attorneys general in all of the 50 states were engaged in this group effort to try to get help, to try to get compensation for homeowners who had been screwed over by the bad behavior of the industry. All the attorney generals in all 50 states were trying to reach a cash settlement with the countrys five largest mortgage servicers. And in 2011, Kamala Harris, t
Weve heard biden explain this. But today with his own newly minted running mate by his side this story very much took on new resonance because joe biden today said that what he asked president obama 12 years ago about becoming obamas running mate, thats also what hes asking Kamala Harris now. When i agreed to serve as president obamas running mate he asked me what i wanted most importantly. I told him i wanted to be the last person in the room before he made important decisions. Thats what i ask kamala. I ask kamala to be the last voice in the room, to always tell me the truth, if she will, challenge my assumptions if she disagrees, ask the hard questions because thats the way we make the best decisions for the American People. You know, i came first to know who kamala was through our son beau biden. They were friends. They served as attorneys general at the same time. They took on the same big fights together. Kamala in california, beau here in delaware. Big fights that helped change
I remember shouting at the television, there is no voter fraud. If you look at them as bookends, that was the first lie. And now theyre picking up with the second lie. Whats remarkable to me, having once been a republican, is that the rnc is also now saying the quiet part outloud and saying that this guy is what threatens their Senate Majority. The guy that threatens our Senate Majority is the guy in the office with no corners. Thats right. You are joining a small club of msnbc anchors who have officially twohour long shows. You have been anchoring that for a long time. But its official. Welcome to the club. As i tweeted out earlier, more Nicole Wallace is what the country needs right now. Youre so kind. Thank you. All right. We begin tonight with the numbers. Spain, 0 new cases. France, 0 new cases. Canada, which is onetenth the population of the United States, 285 new cases. The United States, 48,849 new cases. There are now more than 4. 7 million cases of coronavirus in the United S