i am michael steele in for my good friend ali velshi. it s the summer of grievance for donald trump. he s already been indicted twice this year. and the former president is still facing the possibility of being indicted with even more criminal charges in multiple ongoing investigations over the coming months. but rather than focus his efforts on his legal defense and actually finding lawyers willing to represent him, he has chosen to litigate his case on the campaign trail instead. and as we have witnessed in recent months, trump s third presidential bid well, it is unlike anything we ve seen before in american politics. this independence day weekend, trump took over to pickens, south korea caroline, a small sleepy town near the blue ridge mountains, population of about 3000 people. he was supposedly there to campaign, but mostly, he was there to complain. for most of his speech that is what he did. he complained about his legal situation and vowed to protect his supporters f
hi everyone, thank you for tuning into this hour. when we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great line of reporters tonight with me. sara fischer, personnel, also joining us with the breaking news millenia. melanie, has the u.s. avoided economic catastrophe at this hour? they have alison but just barely with just a few days to go with that default deadline. really just a few votes to spare here. the final vote tally was 63 to 36. they needed 60 votes to pass the senate. i wanted to give you a breakdown of who voted in support. it was 46 democrats who voted in favor, along with 17 republicans. that was a coalition that banded together that means that the opposition was mostly republicans here. which was five democrat voted against this bill. they ve got it done, they now have four signature. it was no easy feat to get here. there was opposition on both sides of the aisle. democrats did not like the stricter work requirements for food stamp recipients, they d
thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
stuff. seven republicans swear it off tonight at the ronald reagan library in california. and of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonight s debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. we had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. there was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. again, he was not there. the stakes are higher this time around, candidates fundraising boost out of this debate to get their campaigns to keep going. and also to qualify for the next debate. they all have to get momentum out of this. previous years, republican presidential primaries, by this time in the calendar high-profile candidates had already started dropping out. so, if past is pro
i m rachel maddow here in msnbc with my beloved colleagues, chris hayes, joy reid stephanie ruhle. great to all be together in this difficult time we will be joined by california governor gavin newsom in a little bit. he was there at the debate, god bless and we will get his take on what went down tonight the debate is just now wrapping up after two hours of talking stuff. seven republicans swear it off tonight at the ronald reagan library in california. and of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonight s debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. we had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. there was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. again, he was not ther