it evening from new york, i am chris hayes. well, it s been a brutal few weeks for the country. particularly for the democratic party, for the broad pro- democracy coalition in this party. three weeks ago we were all holding our breath ahead of the first presidential debate, the early is such a debate had happened in the modern era. you know how that went. in the aftermath of that, messy and painful as joe biden and the democratic party try to find a way forward. and last weekend, donald trump was injured in a near miss assassination attempt. i mean, i was looking today, but near miss understates how close this came to being a catastrophe. it was the first time in more than 40 years we saw shots fired at a president or presidential candidate. and then just 48 hours, trump named an extreme right-wing senator, jd vance of ohio, as his running mate. on the first day of the republican national convention, the david judge aileen cannon hand-picked donald trump throughout the entir
and i just want to tell you, heather, i m looking at the camera, 9:00 is only, now, it s 9:00. you can do this. you are welcome to stay, should i just say? thank you, my friend. in the past eight years, donald trump has given three speeches, three, accepting his party s nomination for president. his first speech now feels like a lifetime ago. it will always be remembered for this moment. i have joy in the political arena, so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i, alone, can fix it. i, alone, can fix it. that instantly became the thing everyone took away from the speech. it really nailed exactly how trump managed to turn the republican party into a cult of personality, focused on just one man, donald trump himself. but in the eight years since then, the cult of maga became something of an established religion in american politics. he spent that time fashioning himself as a qu
don t have time because there were so many other false claims. so let s adjust some of those. not even all of them. he repeated his usual lie about democrats having cheated in the 2020 the election. it s nonsense. he said, crime is going up. the opposite is true. it s gone sharply down in 2023 and early 2024 is now lower than it was under trump in 20 2020. he said, we have the worst inflation. we ve ever had. again, not even close. it is three 3% right now, the u.s. record is 23.7%. he said there was no inflation under for him. it was low, of course, but not nonexistent. it was 8% total for his presidency, 1.4% year over year in the month he left office, he said the price of groceries is up 57 and percent under biden, it s actually 21%. he said democrats are proposing to quadruple people s taxes. that is imaginary. he said his tax cut was the largest in american history. not even close again, he said the biden administration does nothing to stop migrants while the administrat
i kind of take offense to that. because what if one of your white anchors said, well, white people eat this on new year s day? i don t think it was appropriate that she said that. she was being very asian and, i don t know. she can keep her korean to herself. wow. cari? ridiculous. ridiculous. and, by the way, i think kudos to michelle. i know this story very well. she played that because it is ridiculous, and i m sure it s not the first time she heard this in her career, as a woman of color. trust me, i know. i d like to add, for the record, i, too, loved black-eyed peas for new year s day because it is good for you. this woman made it about her. you do tell me what you d like to eat. that s fine. but good for michelle. i love the way in which the hashtag very asian became something positive, in the way people responded. it is unfortunate we live in a day and age where we can t say what we like culturally, and it becomes a versus type of situation. and it is sad. becau
around once in a blue moon, it feels like. tomorrow we will have a double one. we will see. paul gosar was on our program complaining nothing has happened to him and no one has taken action against him. she is going to see that action taken tomorrow. she will join us tomorrow night after that. so it will be interesting. that s very smart booking. i m jealous. but i will also say that we are also getting into this, with this class of republican members of congress, sort of the in the trump era, this will be the second pro-trump republican member of congress who has been stripped of all of his or her committee assignments. this happened to march march already. it could be the cause for a new caucus in the house. those of us stripped from our committee assignments for associations with violence and white supremacy. the committees will not miss them. that s true. fair enough. thanks. thank you, rachel. house speaker nancy pelosi gave house republican leader kevin mcca