Have you been watching the olympics . If you have, you know that yesterday, Simone Biles, The American Gymnastics Phenomenon took home her sixth Gold Medal for team usa. Biles earlier battle with Mental Health Led her to withdraw from the Team Competition at the tokyo Olympic Ins 2021. And now, as of yesterday, Simone Biles is officially the greatest of all time. The goat, the most decorated u. S. Gymnast in history. She chose to redirect a little of her spotlight onto Donald Trump. Not in a good way. Earlier this week, if you recall, trump doubled down on his claim that immigrants are taking what he called black jobs. He was speaking to the national association of black journalists. And today, Simone Biles turned trumps comment on its head celebrating her olympic victory with a tweet saying i love my black job. That clap back is the capstone to what has already been a very bad week for Donald Trump. By contrast, trumps opponent Kamala Harris is having what would be called even imparti
Coverage on this very big night. We are super happy to have you with us. Im Rachel Maddow here with my colleagues Lawrence Odonnell and Stephanie Ruhle and Alex Wagner and jen psaki. A huge cast of characters. The whole team is here, the whole Clown Car has been unloaded. Do you care about politics . Do you have any feelings about who you would prefer to win the next election . About who would be a better choice or a worse choice as the next President Of The United States . If you do have those feelings, what were you planning on doing about it this year . Because there are about 105 days left until the president ial election so if you are going to do something about those feelings you have about politics, you know, Tick Tock. Time is short. Were you planning on doing something or just watching . Yesterday something happened that suddenly made a lot of people hear that Tick Tock sound a lotted louder than before. Before yesterday, the Biden Harris Reelection campaign was apparently get
Right now, the 2024 president Ial Campaign is entering a dramatic new phase. And we are covering all the unfolding events this evening. Former President Donald Trump is set to speak at a rally near pittsburgh. We are listening in for any hints about who he might pick as a Vice President ial Running Mate as the Republican National Convention kicks off less than 48 hours from now in milwaukee. We have the mayor standing by shortly to talk about the big event. Meantime, on the other end of the critical Battleground State of pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris just wrapped up a Campaign Event in philadelphia. Vice president harris is making the case for president Joe Bidens Reelection as he faces calls from members of his own party to step aside. The president for his part is working the phones, holding conference calls made this afternoon with House Democrats from the caucuses moderate and progressive wings. Trying to convince them he has the Energy And Stamina to remain in the rac
Step aside. Thats on the House Side. Now all eyes are on what democrats do on the senate side. Murky developments there. But no matter what, all signs seem to suggest that the president is not budging, but how long can this keep on going and going and going . We have Peter Dusey at the White House and what theyre saying, Capitol Hill and the Party Battle still mounting, and form or who candidate Tim Ryan who fears this fallout from Joe Biden resisting sint done. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto, and this is your world. They made it very clear at the White House that they want to stick with the the. The president wants to stick out this race, but it might not be that easy. So everyone has been watching to see if the dam is going to break here on Capitol Hill, and people are watching these vulnerable democrats. Leader schumer came out today very defiantly supportive of the president saying i am for joe, but those senate democrats, those vulnerable democrats not so much. And i will star
announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. officials now believe russia has assembled about 70% of the military force it needs to launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine. the latest satellite images show russian forces gathering strength in belarus. some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraine s northern border. in neighboring poland, senior u.s. military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. this as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. french president emmanuel macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. russia s chief negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. translator: we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. as much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost