Election chances and he was promoting a moment that he believes is bigger than both of them. Interesting to see how this will play out at the convention. Thank you both. Thats all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow starts now. Good evening. Its been another really big day in the news today. I think well have a bunch of these over the next few days, but today was another day of a lot of really big news and news that continues to unfold tonight. Today we had the incredibly moving Memorial Service in dallas, featuring pretty impassioned remarks from president obama and also remarks from former president george w. Bush. Very rare to see those two men appearing together anywhere. Its even more rare to have president obama flying texas senator ted cruz with him on air
force one to an event anywhere in the country. But after what dallas has just been through, partisanship became very specifically irrelevant at todays dallas Memorial Service. Well have more on that occasion ahead tonight, on tonights show. Also this time tomorrow, were looking ahead to our closest ally overseas, great britain. Theyre going to have a new Prime Minister this time tomorrow. Only the second woman ever to be british Prime Minister, after margaret thatcher. Theresa may will be taking over. Well have news on that ahead. Also on this program, well be joined by the Campaign Manager for Bernie Sanders, jeff weaver will join us, following senator sanders landmark decision today to endorse Hillary Clinton and to apparently start campaigning for her for president. Well have much more on that endorsement ahead tonight, in terms of what it means for the election, what it means for the Democratic Party, what it means for liberal politics in this country. But logistically today, that
endorsement of Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders, it wasnt just a declaration of support, just a declaration of intent to campaign for her. Logistically, it also ends up being important that this was technically the end of Bernie Sanderss own campaign for president. One of the consequences of that, after he left this event in new hampshire, he flew back to washington, d. C. , and then his landing in washington, d. C. Today marked the end of his secret service protection. Hes been protected by the secret Service Since the very start of the president ial primary, since the first week of february this year, but that ended for senator Bernie Sanders tonight. Hes now officially back to being just a United States senator, depending on how he chooses to spend his time between now and november. Though senator sanders will also now be one of the most valuable speakers and supporters and surrogates that Hillary Clinton will have, of everyone. Especially when it comes to trying to rally liberal democrats, and the kind of independentminded democratic
voters who Bernie Sanders attracted to his campaign by the millions during this unexpectedly long and hardfought primary that the democrats had this year. Senator sanders said today that he intends to be in every corner of this country to make certain that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States. He said today, quote, i intend to do everything i can to make certain that Hillary Clinton will win this falls election. Again, well be talking about senator Bernie SandersCampaign Manager, jeff weaver, about what this announcement means, what we should expect from senator sanders between now and november. He not only started talking about campaigning for secretary clinton for president , he also talked about forming successor organizations to his president ial campaign. What does that mean . How are those going to work . What should we expect from them for this years politics . So, big day today, in democratic
politics. The endorsement is there, the sentiment is there. The importance of it for november may be in the details. Got a lot of important and specific details today on the democrat side and the republican side of politics. Because wii weve been talking about sanders and clinton, lets talk about the democratic side first in terms of new details we got today and tonight. On the democratic side, we dont exact guidance on the lineup and the speakers for the Democratic Convention, but the New York Times reports that a prominent speaking slot has been reserved at the connecticut on night one for massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren. On the one hand, that must be very exciting for senator warren to know she has a dedicated prominent speaking slot on night one of the Democratic National convention. On the other hand, night one is usually not when the Vice President ial nominee makes her speech. So does that mean that Elizabeth Warren is out as a potential Hillary Clinton running mate . Not necessarily. If they decide to choose senator warren as their vp choice, obviously they can move her speaking slot. Wouldnt be the biggest deal in the world. But them announcing today, letting it be known to reporters today, that shes speaking on night one, thats the current plan, that is a little tea leaf that we found out about today. And frankly, at this point in politics, its impossible to not try to read signs like that, to read tea leaves like this when we find them. In terms of the timing of Hillary Clintons running mate announcement, were now led to believe that her announcement will be timed to take full advantage of the fact that the democrats are holding their Convention Second this year, after the republicans. And generally speaking, this sort of thing tends to be a good move. Republicans did it in 2008. The republicans waited for the Democratic Convention to end. They waited for the for nominee barack obama to have his ginormous acceptance speech at the huge stadium in denver, to
wow the country with one of the great obama orations of all time, on this incredible stage, before a huge crowd. But then the very next morning, quash. They stepped right on the tail of that story with their own republican surprise announcement that john mccain had chosen for his running mate, a half term governor of alaska who nobody had ever heard of. Whatever you think of john mccain choosing sarah palin as his running mate, the timing of that surprise announcement in 2008, right after obamas convention, right between the two conventions, squashing the momentum from the successful obama biden convention, and that incredible acceptance speech that obama gave in denver, whatever you think about that, the timing of that was very well played by the Mccain Campaign in 2008. And the Clinton Campaign is planning on similar timing with their announcement this year. Were told theyre planning to announce Hillary Clintons running mate, sometime during the threeday window, between
the end of the Republican Convention next week and the beginning of the Democratic Convention the week after. So that means a week from friday, saturday, or sunday, thats when well get the clinton announcement. Now, in terms of who Hillary Clinton is likely to pick, we still really dont know. Theres that intriguing Elizabeth Warren speaking slot news from today. Although really who knows what that means. Theres also a big joint appearance planned on thursday this week, two days from now, for Hillary Clinton with Virginia Governor tim cane. And i know, i know, tim cane is always derided as the boring choice for running mate. But if you want to know, part of the reason tim cane is always in the running anytime any democrat is looking for a potential Vice President ial running mate, if you want to know why hes the king of the short list, why he is always a bridesmaid, well, behold, here is tim canes last sunday show appearance. Just watch this briefly, only about 20 seconds. What subtle detail do you know about this sunday show appearance that might set tim cane apart from your typical, boring, short list perennial contender . In virginia. Tim cane speaking on univision this weekend, giving the boilerplate denial that hes not interested in being Vice President and hes happy to be senator from virginia, but doing that boilerplate denial in fluent spanish. Spanish so fluent that he gets the jokes, he needs no translation, he knows when to smile and laugh and react to the spanishspeaking anchor. There are 320 Million People in this country, 55 million of them are hispanic. Tim cane is always on the democratic Vice President ial short list for a reason, and that is one of them. Well get a little window into how seriously the Clinton Campaign is really considering him as a running mate. Well get a little window into what the chemistry is like between tim cane and Hillary Clinton at their event that is scheduled for the day after tomorrow. Thursday event, tim cane and Hillary Clinton. In addition to the Elizabeth Warren buzz and the tim cane buzz, there was also a brief flurry of reporting today about the possibility that the Clinton Campaign was vetting former navy admiral, james staff reedis. We dont know how specific that prospect is. This is the first time his name has surfaced. There were reports they were vetting him. There were reports he was not in serious contention. So we dont really know. But in general, its not inconceivable that a retired Military Officer will be in the mix for one or even both of the president ial candidates this year. The Trump Campaign just in the past few days floated and then unfloated the name of
controversial retired general mike flynn as a potential running mate for donald trump. Mr. Trump reportedly floated the name of retired general mcchrystal, who stomped all over that prospect when he told cnn he will not accept any role in a donald trump administration. Emphasis on any. If the candidates are considering former generals, and they are, general mcchrystal would make a much more sensible running mate for Hillary Clinton, not donald trump. Donald trump and mccrystal, inconceivable matchup. I would be surprised if mccrystal is not on the list that Hillary Clinton is considering, as the Campaign Continues to narrow down its choices. We shall see. We do tonight have some very specific reporting on the republican side in terms of what to expect for a Vice President ial announcement timing. The Trump Campaign is now expected to reveal Donald Trumps choice of running mate as some sort of orchestrated big public event on friday of this week. Its possible that the selection will happen before that, that it
could be leaked, that theyll let it be known in a quieter way before friday. But they are planning a Vice President ial rollout event on friday. Despite the flirtation with mike flynn, the remaining names on the short list for trump tonight are reported to be three. Number one, new jersey governor Chris Christie, number two, indiana governor mike pence, and number three, former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich. Now, if youre trying to read the tea leaves in deciding between the three of them, the easiest tea leaf to read on these guys is at the big, blaring, nationally broadcast one at the Fox News Channel. Fox news channel is very powerful, very rich, they get great ratings. More power to them. Not really. But they are in an unusual position in american politics and american broadcasting in that the Fox News Channel is effectively the official tv station of the republican party. And whether you like that about them or you dont, having fox have the role of being official republican tv, it does give us one very handy signal we wouldnt otherwise have in american politics. Fox news helps us know when specific republican politicians are about to run for office. They make it really obvious. Its like clock work, right . Republican politicians leave office, or they lose an election or something, they go then, get a job at fox news. Then as soon as theyre ready to
run for office again, fox news has to go through this big public display of firing them. And so we all get this very clear, surefire sign that a republican politician is about to jump back into electoral politics when they get fired from fox news for that purpose. Its like when the white smoke starts coming out of the chimney at the top of the sistine chapel. You dont know who the pope is, but you know they got a pope. Its the same thing at fox news. If youre a republican politician and you get fired from fox news, youre about to run for something. Thats how we knew in 2012. Brett baird announced they were both fired on the same day. Same with liz cheney running for senate in wyoming. How we found out scott brown was going to run for new hampshire. Ben carson and Mike Huckabee in 2016, they got publicly fired at fox news, so they could clear the way to make that run, and thats how we all knew theyd be running. Well, keeping that pattern in mind, you should note that today, Newt Gingrich, once again, got fired from fox news. And so maybe that means hes going to be running with donald trump as trumps Vice President ial running mate. Maybe it does. We will see. Who knows . Maybe fox just fired him for a week and theyre going to hire him back after the convention, once trump names mike pence as his Vice President ial running mate. Who knows. Its almost not worth speculating on at this point if only we dont have to speculate for long. We just have to hold our breath and wait. Were going to find out by the end of this week. So your guessing time is almost up. The real unanswered question is whether or not the sort of thing that is worth worrying about, particularly for republicans, is whether the Vice President ial running mate announcement, whoever it is, the real thing to
worry about, the real thing to wonder about, is whether its going to work. Whether its going to be a big enough deal that its going to make a difference in the campaign. Because the latest data about the campaign, about the race between donald trump and Hillary Clinton, the latest data is really bad for donald trump. The latest pough National Poll that came out, Hillary Clinton is beating donald trump overall, nationwide, no big deal, nine points. Seen this before. But look at this one slice of voters under the age of 30. In the new national pough poll, look at this, voters under 30 nationwide, not only are picking Hillary Clinton over donald trump by a huge margin, theyre actually picking Hillary Clinton and gary johnson over donald trump. Donald trump is losing to Hillary Clinton and to the libertarian guy among voters ages 18 to 29. Bloomberg politics also has a new National Poll out that has just devastating numbers for trump, with a different slice of the electorate. Bloomberg looks at white, collegeeducated voters. Which is about a third of the electorate. In every election since 1952, theyve picked the last president ial candidate. In the last election, white, collegeeducated voters went for mitt romney over obama by a margin of 14 points. Even though obama won handily overall. White College Educated voters are right now, plus 11 for Hillary Clinton in this election. If you broaden it out to all College Educated voters, not just white people, but all College Educated likely voters in this country, thats a Group President obama actually won by t