Can you believe it . Rachel maddow on bravo. Never thought i would see the day. For all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see you at The End of tomorrow. Today started with bomb shell news. Last monday, Jd Vances Team contacted officials in Springfield Ohio to Fact Check claims on haitian immigrants eating pets. Springfield City Manager told vances people pointblank there was no verifyable evidence of immigrants eating pets. The claims were baseless, but still, Jd Vance repeated them online. And the next day, trump used one of the biggest platforms in the world, an american president ial debate, to push the claims again. Claims the campaign knew were lies. The new reporting from the Wall Street Journal should be devastating to the trump campaign. But the stunning thing is they probably wont care. Because trump and Vances Invocation of springfield was never about the truth to begin with. Springfield is less important to them as an
Vice president ial candidate j. D. Vance has a new line he likes to repeat on the grow know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. Id say thats pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric. Two Assassination Attempts in as many months, and i think its time to say to the democrats, to the media, to everybody that has beena, attacking this man and trying to censor this man for going on ten years, cut it out or youre going to get someone killed. His running g mate, j. D. Van, wants the public to believe it is the lefts reinflammatory Rhetoric Hat has motivated these attacks. Donald trump has taken t it a sp further directly blaming Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden for the attacks. In an interview with Fox News Digital Trump said somewhat inscrutably, they use highly inflammatory language. I can u
I know that. I know that regardless of someones background, race, gender, geographic location, i know that people are deeply troubled. By what is happening to that community in springfield, ohio. And its got to stop. Youve got to say that you cannot be entrusted with standing behind the seal of the president of the united states of america engaging in that hateful rhetoric that as usual is designed to divide us as a country. Is designed to have people pointing fingers at Each Other. Its designed to do that. I think most people in this country regardless of their race are starting to see through this nonsense. And to say you know what, lets turn the page on this. This is exhausting and harmful and its hateful. And grounded in some age old stuff that we should not have the tolerance for so lets turn the Page And Chart a new way forward and say you cant have that microphone again. Im switching gears again. I want to talk to you about gun control. So you said you support an assault Weapons
Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper, a little over 20 years ago to menn in naples, florida, went missing within months of each other. Turns williams and Philippe Santos and no known connection and no known ties to each other. They did have a few things in common. Both were men of color. And both were picked up by the same deputy from the Collier County Sheriffs Department on the same street in naples before they disappeared. Is deputy is the last person known to have seen both menn alive an internal Affairs Investigation showed the deputy was not being truthful about the events surrounding the disappearances but thats as far as it went, is denied any involvement and was never charged. The bodies of Terrence Williams and Philippe Santos were never found. The case which didnt attract much attention at the time, seemed to be over with no answers and no suspects over the next hour, cnn anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coates, along with siena and Crime Reporter thomas lake
I am here today to answer any legitimate questions and the House Oversight committee may have for me. Shall i allow hunter to give his Opening Statement first . It doesnt appear mr. Biden showed up for his public hearing. With any luck today marks the end of what may be the most spectacular failure in the history of an congressional investigations. State your iniry because we were a very important hearing what is your inquiry . It is not a stunned. I am simply asking you dont have a parliamentary inquiry . Chair recognize him mr. Chairman chairman recognizes mr. Does the committee how the Text Messages . Mr. Chairman we dont have time for games by democrats today. House Impeachment Hearing at 80 he did start, republicans and democrats taking shots at each other with two of Hunter Bidens former Business Partners. Hello and welcome everyone im sandra smith and dajohn craig to be with you. John great to be with you, what a hearing today, im john roberts in washington and this is america r