Good evening, and welcome to our special coverage of night two of the republican national convention in beautiful downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. Super glad to have you here with us tonight, i have rachel maddow here with my beloved, indefatigable, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues, joy reed, jen socket, lawrence o donnell, we have nicolle wallace stuffed in a cubby nearby were we talking with her shortly. I promise you we will be here any minute now we are expecting the republican party s residential nominee, donald trump, to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. So if i look shifty and like i am not making eye contact with you, it is because i m trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. I will let you know when it does. Both the secret service and local law enforcement today face some increasingly tough questions about saturday s assassination attempt against trump at a rally in pennsylvania this past weekend. Cnn was first report today. Nbc news has no
Did he have any affiliation with that company you know? we are not prepared to provide the identity of the potential shooter. We are doing the confirmation a and once we have it we will release it to the press. It is a matter of doing bio metric identification. There was no identification on the individual so we are looking at photographs right now. We are trying to run his dna and get bio metric confirmation. Can biyou comment on what police found left behind? any possible devices? did you find any extra guns? just anything else you would be willing to comment? not at this time. No, we are still in the process of an active investigation. So we ofwould like to reserve releasing information like that until we have more facts. We did not have any specific threat information related to this event. You talk about how it happened so quickly. There are at least two casualties. Includeing the gunman and one victim. It could have been a lot worse. Absolutely. Can you comment on how it was take
be 2024. and the president will be running for reelection in the face of some significant head winds that are turning into quite the hurricane. everything, everywhere all at once. you have wars in ukraine. israel. bombs, still raining down. hostages still desperate for rescue. some of biden s own staff members holing a vigil outside the white house masked to conceal their identities calling for a cease fire in gaza. the president giving a personal message to israel. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. well then there is ukraine. biden is trying to push his own party where they don t seem to want to go. he is open to changing border policy in exchange for the votes to pass the aid that ukraine desperately needs. but democrats have been balking. and the president s approval rating is underwater in poll after poll after poll. now he faces the biggest challenge of all, republican led impeachment inquiry wit
there is a scheduled press conference that is about to begin any minute now, of course we ll bring that to you. louisville police department say that the shooter is dead and that there is no longer a threat to the public. according to two senior officials, authorities are currently investigating the shooting as a workplace violence situation. joining us now is nbc s george solis, also with us is nbc s ken dilanian george, what s the very latest as you mentioned, we re waiting for that press conference where we expect the mayor, police chief, as well as governor andy brasheer to get updated information. the extent of the injuries not known at this point, sort of to recap here, we know that this happened shortly after 8:30 according to thauthorities. they heard active gunshots being fired outside or inside of that bank we ll get some clarity here shortly. we know that the shooter was dead on the scene. police at this point were not saying how that occurred officials unable to
we will hear argument this morning in case 23-939. trump versus the united states. reporter: tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker how is our girl. as his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the supreme court. this court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. a private attorney to spearhead his challenges to the election results. what was up with the pardon for president nixon? if everybody thought that presidents couldn t be prosecuted what was that about? if it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy on our own, isn t it? tonight, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, joy reed, chris liz. lawrence o donnell, lisa ruben all here as msnbc s special coverage of trump on trial begins now. who has the time? who has the time? you are telling me that simultaneously, we have nearly three hour