States, plus primetime speeches from former first lady michelle obama. We need to get out every vote. And former president barack obama. America isn t about yes, he will. It s about, yes, we can. Full team coverage from rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reid, alex wagner, chris haste, chris o donnell, jen psaki, stephanie ruhle. Msnbc s coverage of the democratic national convention begins now. And here we go. Welcome to msnbc s special coverage of this second night of the democratic national convention. I m ari melber live here with joy reid live in chicago and we have a live view of that united center where joy and our colleagues and so many delegates are still filling in after that late and raucous night capped by president biden s historic speech. Tonight another president takes the stage. Barack obama while kamala harris and tim walz are leaving chicago to headline a wisconsin rally tonight at a venue which hosted the rnc, in fact. The harris campaign continuing to taut and flex
In Rhode Island less than two hours ago. Look at the images out of new port, long island. Henri is dropping a staggering amount of rain in many parts. Winds are beginning to whip up, threatening to down trees and Power Lines. Chris cuomo is on long island. What are you experiencing there . Reporter here we are in East Hampton. Happy to be working for you today. The story here is duration. First, the headline is New York got lucky here. We were worried about another superstorm sandy. The hurricane that was a Category One that hit New Jersey and bounced in New York. It had So much Flood Surge that came along with a tidal surge from a Moon Tide. Here we were, again, seeing the track of henri coming and basically the same direction and a Moon Tide once again in the lunar cycle. Thats why there was So much concern. But henri, if its going to be remembered for Something, it will be remembered for being confusing. Its been shifting the track, and as it came close, it bounced east. Missed us i
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy escalates. Mccarthy is now facing criticism for joking about hitting pelosi with the gavel if he becomes house speaker. The question is did he really think that comment was funny . And after much delay, senators have introduced the long awasted text of their bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The question is when will we see a vote . Its way too early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early, the show that at this point would settle for the bronze. Weve got some Breaking News in olympics just ahead. I eenl Jonathan Lemire on this monday, August 2nd. Lets start with news. We begin with a grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. According to an nbc tally, late last notice total cases surpassed 635 million. Florida is quickly becoming the epicenter of this fourth wave of infections, accounting for all, about a fifth of all new cases in the u. S. Yesterday the state broke a previous record for current hospitalizations s
Of at least two democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides, and Family Members. One was a minor. Records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 18, including those of representative Adam Schiff of california, then the panels top democrat and now its chairman. Times reporter Katie Benner shares a byline on this story. She is standing by to join us and a moment earlier this evening, Congressman Schiff spoke to Rachel Maddow on this network about the unprecedented and disturbing nature of all of it. This looks like a Patent Abuse of the department, yet another example of the president politicizing using the Department Of Justice as a cudgel to go after his enemies. The first, most important Norm Postwatergate is the president of the United States does not get involved in particular cases at the Justice Department. The president of the United States doesnt urge the department to investigate his political adversaries or his political enemies
Hello and welcome to Bbc News. We start injerusalem. There have been more clashes between palestinians and israeli police, a day after more than 200 people were injured in some of the worst violence in years at the Al Aqsa Mosque. Fighting broke outjust as Tens Of Thousands of muslim worshippers prayed at the compound to mark the most holy night of ramadan. More than 50 people were injured. Gareth barlow reports. Stun grenades against stones. Palestinian protesters and israeli Security Forces clashing outside the Al Aqsa Mosque complex injerusalems old city, one of the most revered sites in islam. Its also the location of the temple mount, the holiest site injudaism. The source of the anger weeks of rising tensions over the potential eviction of palestinian families from their homes in occupied eastjerusalem, which israeli settlers claim as their land. Earlier on saturday, roads into the city became gridlocked as israel ramped up security, fearing a repeat of fridays violence. Car horn