i did everything right and they indicted me. and what it means to set and then immediately break the record for hottest day ever recorded on planet earth. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. hope you had a good july 4th weekend. we are rapidly approaching the real actual serious for now start of the 24 republican primary. the first rnc debate is next month in milwaukee where the republicans will also hold their 2024 convention. while it s still too early for any real predictions about who voters will choose or how this will play out, right now, speaking as of today, it does look like donald trump is way ahead of everyone else. and that is in large part because florida governor ron desantis, who was initially hyped up is the candidate who could take on trump, has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis line should commit with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 p
and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
details from our west coast newsroom tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. speaker pelosi s office just released that statement confirming what they called the successful surgery on 82-year-old paul pelosi and saying his doctors at san francisco general hospital expect a full recovery following the violent attack. it was 2:27 this morning when police were alerted to an incident at the pelosi home in san francisco officers apparently arriving so quickly that the assault on mr. pelosi was happening as they got if there. our officers observed ms. pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from ms. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disharmd him. took him into custody. it s not clear from the police chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer. whether the suspect brought it into the house or whether mr. pelosi had, perhaps, grabbed it for self-defense. polic
wall street journal poll shows republicans gaining support among latino voters and women as president biden s economy deals democrats a decisive blow putting the gop two points ahead of the left on congressional ballot. carley: brooke singman is breaking down the critical races we re following across the country, brooke. brooke: new polling data from the nation s crucial races showing razor-thin margins with just a week until election day. in pennsylvania, new poll shows democrat john fetterman leading dr. oz by single percentage point. fetterman publishing op ed that reads, whether rise in crime or cost, we need leaders who understand problems we re going through in pennsylvania and have the experience and ideas to do something about it. dr. oz pointing out john fetterman s true position on crime to tucker carlsson last night. watch this. taken a strong chance to protect criminals over the innocent and want to release one-third of all prisoners. if he could wave a ma
[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don t think it s an overstatement to say they re freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that they re thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. there has to be some discrimination here. there has to be something against asian americans specifically. this case is going to be something more than just about admissions. the notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating