unprecedented events, i feel like they re piling up one on top of the other. just a few moments ago donald trump officially became the republican nominee for president for the third time in a row and just moments before that he announced on truth social that he has selected ohio senator j.d. vance to be his running mate. the start of the republican national convention taking place at an incredibly tense and volatile moment for the entire country. less than 48 hours after an assassination attempt on the ex-president, a shooting that left one person dead, two others critically injured. if we see donald trump today it will be his first public appearance since that horrific and tragic incident. it is violence that is deeply corrosive to our democracy. we all unequivocally condemn it in the strongest terms possible and as my colleague rachel maddow puts it, quote, there is no no no violent solution to any american political conflict. we would also like to extend our sympathies to
done. mr. bunker? we re talking about having one of the biggest bigots in america. sammy davis! with a black man coming to his house. mr. davis, that s my daughter gloria standing over there. how do you do, gloria? and her husband mike. hello, mike. no. i was tingling the whole time. one, two, three. sammy davis jr. kissed him on the cheek and he s sitting there going you re watching kind of a master class in reflecting humanity. it was revolutionary in a lot of ways. all in the family changed the way we think about society. that s the picture of sammy davis. look what he writes here. to archie bunker. the whitest guy i know. archie bunker was jaw-dropping. and you realized norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. that was my dad. my father used to tell my mother, jeanette, it s sunday, we re going out for chinks. dad, we re going to go out for a chinese meal. why do you have to say chinks? jim bowman our neighbor
of chattering classes. they came from the highest levels in government, including from the country s top ranking military officer, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, according to excerpts from a new book set to come out next week, i alone can fix it by carol leonnig and philip rucker. general milley was working to avert a possible coup. he told his closest deputies, they may try but they re not going to blanking succeed. as early as november he and the joint chiefs began informally planning how they could block a presidential order to use the military in a way they considered illegal or dangerous and ill-advised. there were others who shared milley s concern too, a list that reportedly includes former secretary of state mike pompeo, although unsurprisingly he says it s totally not true. but milley s most chilling assessment of the former president came as trump mobilized his supporters behind the big lie, a mass delusion so powerful it inspired
from the president on down are sounding the alarm about the future of our democracy. nothing less. this is happening just as we mark 100 years since the darkest moment in the history of an entire region that was covered up successfully for decades. a massacre in tulsa, oklahoma, that decimated a thriving black community. biden became first president to speak at site of that attack. linked it to what he says is a frontal assault on our right to vote. this sacred right is under assault with incredible intensity like i ve never seen, intensity and aggressiveness we ve not seen in a long, long time. it s simply un-american. i urge voting rights groups to begin to redouble their efforts now. earlier this year passed the for the people act to protect our democracy. senate will take it up later this month and i m going to fight like heck for its passage. house is also working on the john lewis voting rights act which is critical to providing new legal tools against the assault on
detained in russia. however, he also sought to tamp down the impression that either side is seeking to rerun the cold war. i don t think he is looking for a cold war with the united states. i don t think it s about, as i said to him, i said, your generation and mine were about ten years apart. this is not a kumbaya moment as you used to say back in the 60s in the united states. like, let s hug and love each other. but it s, clearly, not in anybody s interest. your country s or mine, for us to be in a situation, where we re in a new-cold war. and i truly believe he thinks that. he understands that. well, for his part, mr. putin deflected. and denied accusations of russian misconduct. but also, expressed a measure of hope for the future. translator: the first general appraisal. i think there was no hostility. quite the contrary. our meeting took place, principally speaking. many of our positions, we don t share the same positions, in many areas. but i think that both of