Law Enforcement Today faced increasingly tough questions about Saturdays Assassination Attempt against him. Cnn was the first Report Today and Nbc News has confirmed that the Secret Service it actually ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. Iran has singled out a number of different american officials in recent years for potential attempts on their lives. Nbc news reporting that three different Trump Administration officials, john bolton, former Secretary Of State mike pompeo, brian cook, all were provided u. S. Funded Security Teams because of threats from iran with congress approving the funding for those added layers of protection in the case of each of those guys. Trump, as the republican nominee, is just the latest u. S. Official, former official, to reportedly be threatened by iran. Now what is interesting here in terms of sort of news of the day and pressing concerns about what happened this pack pas
Good Evening And Welcome to our special coverage of night two of the Republican National Convention in Beautiful Downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. Super glad to have you with us tonight. I am Rachel Maddow here with my beloved, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues joy reid, jen psaki, ari melber, lawrence odonnell. We will be talking with her shortly. We will be here, any minute we are expecting the President Ial Nominee Donald Trump to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. If i look shifty and not making eye contact, im trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. Both the Secret Service and local Law Enforcement pay some increasingly tough questions about Saturdays Assassination Attempt against Trumpeter Rally this past weekend. Cnn was first to report that Nbc News has confirmed that the Secret Service had ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. Iran has singled out a number of diff
Reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein Case and the Court Perversion of justice. The woman behind it all, julie k. Brown, joins me live in a few minutes. But first the rhetoric around covid19. If you think about it, life is just one big, long set of calculated risks. Crossing the street to the park, taking a car to the store, taking a trip. We all make risks every day. If we didnt, we wouldnt be living. The covid19 is all about risk. How much risk is acceptable to you . Whats your Risk Tolerance . What about the risk of passing the virus on to others . Whats the Cost Benefit Analysis . Covid requires constant risk assessments. But those nuances dont always come through in the media coverage. In the argument with public health officials that weve all come to know over the last six months havent talked about risk assessment, either. Quality News Coverage and careful messaging should help you assess risk and make thoughtful decisions. We all have to think more like risk calculators. For example
He changed to attacking other people and so i think what the reality is is as a party we have to have an internal look and full accounting as to what led to January 6. It is the titanic. We have a Band Playing on the deck saying its fine and meanwhile Donald Trump is trying to find Womens Clothing to get on the first lifeboat and a few of us saying this is not good not just for the future of the party but the country. And as if the gop antidemocratic plot needed additional Proof Points we got them friday when the Washington Post broke this scoop about the barr Justice Department. Quote, the trump Justice Department secretly obtained the Washington Post Journalists Phone records and tried to obtain the email records over reporting in the early months of the Trump Administration on Russias Role in the 2016 election according to Government Officials and the post adding it is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations. And such mover
all lived through and covered, things like the las vegas shooting, and hearing just the simplicity of his questions has been the most instructive. i remember him asking someone who was still afraid and still hiding how are you? i can t even tell the story without crying, but it just cracked her open and she gave all of us the benefit of knowing the horror that she and so many people were going through. it was just this simple question and then his singular ability to listen. yeah. i appreciate that. i do. really well put and it s what we re thinking about. as you mentioned, we ll be watching later tonight. good to see you, nicolle. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. we begin with break news as trump faces two legal setbacks. donald trump now facing a formal legal demand to go under oath in this big investigation that new york attorney general letitia james has been leading. she has subpoenaed him to testify. the goal to get him to sit down for a deposition and answer