i am chris hayes here with alex wagner for night two of the republican national convention. we expect a number of high- profile speeches including from steve scalise, himself the survivor of an attempted assassination. speaker of the house johnson will also be in this hour. we are also covering the announcement on the first day of the convention, the first time in decades the announcement was made at the convention of j.d. vance, the junior senator from ohio, quite junior, less than two years a senator and former never trump her who will be his running mate. there s a lot going on. including the conviction of democratic senator bob menendez in new jersey. i m here with my good friend, alex wagner. it s good to have you here. it s good to see you, my friend. i do think that the menendez case is interesting because of the theme of the weaponize department of justice and the doj doing the unexpected, playing checkers, getting his son and now also getting a very prominent dem
he is that character in those horror movies. andrea canning: he hid in the shadows, a killer in a mask. he s clearly a brilliant individual, a brilliantly scary individual. andrea canning: his target, a doting young mom. she was a gorgeous strawberry blonde who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. she was so scared. andrea canning: he struck once. would he kill again? and would she be next? you re just so shattered and hurting so bad. andrea canning: imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. andrea canning: she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did was wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. what i did was wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. it would t
like the founding fathers, grave and gray-haired. but most of them were boys when they died and they gave up two lives, the one they were living in the one they would have lived. it when they died they give up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. they gave up their chance to be revered old men. if they gave up everything for country, for us. but what does the country they shed blood for look like today? is in a country that looks like it is worthy of their sacrifice? imagine a country in dire straits. it s a country convulsed by riots, pitting police against protesters, ordinary citizens against activists. it s a country gripped, nearly obsessed with the issues of and ethnicity. it s a country that just exited along and grinding foreign war is the loser. it s a country where divisive republican president is succeeded by a genial democrat who promised healing but proves too inept to lead. it s a country whose campuses are in the grips of fanatical ideologu
bias and facebook is responding to o keefe, we will get to all of this, but first we turn once again to the ever weak, frail cognitive mess that is all things joey biden and sippy cup. as cases of covid-19 have shortly declined, thankfully, americans are trying to make up for lost time becoming more active than ever, by the way, don t hold your breath coming he will never give president trump credit for operation warp speed. no, power-hungry democrats, the corrupt media mob are not capable of it, don t hold your breath and meanwhile, well, sippy cup joe is not very active, very few public events and extremely early bed time. constant weekend trips to delaware, we assume sleeping and joe seems unwilling and unable and incapable of rising to the occasion, this is getting to be a real clear obvious danger. and now we have with the pandemic leaning joe is running out of excuses, the media mob trying to put a spin on joe biden s obvious struggles, americans, we can see with our ow
things joey biden and sippy cup. as cases of covid-19 have shortly declined, thankfully, americans are trying to make up for lost time becoming moree active than ever, by the way, don t hold your breath coming he will never give president trump credit for operation warp speed. no, power-hungry democrats, the corrupt media mob are not capable of it, don t hold youre breath and meanwhile, well, sippy cup joe is not very active, very few public events and extremely early bed time. constant weekend trips to delaware, we assume sleeping and joe seems unwilling and unable and incapable of rising to the occasion, this is getting to be a real clear obvious danger. and now we have with the pandemic leaning joe is running out of excuses, the media mob trying to put a spin on joe biden s obvious struggles, americans, we can see with our own eyes what is happening, remember fake move cnn first described sippy cup as an early bed type who enjoys a warm firen in the oval office fireplace a