That does it for us and you can listen to every episode for free and just scan the Qr Code at the bottom of your screen. For now i am signing off, thank you for staying up late with me. I will see you at The End of tomorrow. I am really happy to have you here. A quick note before we get started tonight. Right now it is Monday Night which is when you are used to seeing me here on the tv machine. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Your it is. But this week i will also be here on friday. We are doing a Special Edition of the Rachel Maddow Show at The End of the week on friday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. At 9 00 p. M. Eastern, right after the Rachel Maddow Show, we will be showing my new movie, my new documentary called from russia with lev about the first trump impeachment and what was both so terrible and equally so stupid about that entire scandal. So if you want to pop it on your calendar or start your dvr right now. I am here is normal but you will get a second show this week on friday.
In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
Conventions are considered to have delivered the best speeches of their political careers. Cuomo, anddan, mario annrichards in 1988 richards in 1988. Barbara jordan became the first black woman to give the keynote address to the dnc. She received a law degree edit with the first black woman to serve in the u. S. Senate. She talked political ethics at the university of texas in austin entered the on immigration reform. She spoke to delegates in new york city. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. [applause] are neither ladies nor are you gentlemen. Gentlemen, in case you do not know it, may i now present our second keynote speaker, the honorable Barbara Jordan, democrat of houston, texas. [applause] Barbara Jordan thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception. 144 years ago that members of the Democratic Party first led a convention to select a president ial candidate. Since that time, democrats have continued to go to been once every f
49 cents today, 3346. You gotta see tesla, jeffries is alien that stock could go to 2500 a share, maybe 3000, its up 23 bucks premarket. As we keep saying, you are watching history. The open today, the dow is going to be down about 20 odd points, then we have the s p, its hit 17 new highs this year, itll be up again this morning, the nasdaq has hit 38 highs and up again first thing this morning. Blockbuster economic news, google good orders come up 11 . That is money, now politics. An audacious second night at the Republican Convention, the president parted a bank robber, then he surprised five immigrants making them instant citizens right there in the oval office. Mike pompeo appeared from jerusalem and niclas salmon said you cannot cancel me. But it was First Lady Melania Trump who stole the show at least for me. She walked down the white house and delivered a speech about growing up economy and is him and yearning to complement america. An immigrant who likes it here. I promise, you
Nuclear watchdog iran finally opens up 2 facilities for inspection. The territorial dispute between turkey and greece continues to intensify and neither side is showing signs of compromise. Oh a teenage suspect has been arrested after 2 people were shot dead at a black lives matter protest in the u. S. City of. The nation grapples with unrest over Police Brutality video footage from the scene showed a young white man armed with a semiautomatic rifle opening fire in the middle of the street protesters had been defying an overnight curfew for the 3rd evening in a row after police shot an unarmed black man 7 times at close range on sunday the shooting of jacob blake has reignited anger at Police Brutality against black people were not going to put up with what we saw that monday night were not going to is that mean were going to stop it all. It becomes our numbers that come to be able to stop global were going to be a serial in helping to protect the city akiyoshi it all she county in our