Welcome to The Beat weekend. Lets you read the headlines. Tonights Special Report about how harris is surging in ways that can help her win, and the evidence on Trump Adapting to new tools online. This is the key terrain for modern campaigns. It helps explain how harris was underestimated, but is now on fire. It also may offer clues to the Home Stretch, the next few months of this race. Consider how the campaigns are now touting their allies by one example. Historically a candidate would highlight an endorsement, in person, of course, and maybe add some interviews with journalists. Heres a throwback to how they used to do it, how then Candidate Mitt Romney was, believe it or not, at the time, touting then Businessman And Tv personality, Donald Trump. They held that event, they did those interviews. That was then. Now when trump wants to showcase a business endorsement, say, elon musk, they duck independent journalists or their own supporters in person, and held the virtual talk on twit
Questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 ha 14000 today on inside politics, the Trump Ally behind project 2025 caught on tape discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump Term and saying the former president is quote, very supportive. Plus President Biden and Vice President harris will share a stage for the first time since she replaced him on the democratic ticket, will look at their relationship headed into the democratic convention and did Donald Trump just admit defeat in the gops 15 years . Or on obamacare, youre going to want to hear what he said yesterday about keeping the affordable Care Act in place. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics its been threeandahalf weeks since President Biden ended his Reelection Bid and endorsed Vice President harrisons dead in that time, shes rallied her party behind her and is closing the gap with Donald Trump in key Battleground States in the latest Cnn Poll of polls, harris actually holds a o
Smerconish, in for chris on cuomo prime time. Thank you, john berman. I am michael smerconish, in for chris cuomo. Welcome to a specialholiday edition of prime time. Hope you had a great independence day weekend. Now, tonight, we have a central figure on the other end of that apparentpressure campaign by team trump to change the outcome of the 2020 election in the keybattleground state of arizona. I emphasize arizona, because similar pressure was, also, applied on election officials in georgia in the run up to january 6th. This just came to light on friday night. And we played you the voicemails that surfaced from a freedom of information request made by the arizona republic. These were calls left by arizona s gop chair and rudy giuliani, on behalf of donald trump, to those overseeing election results in the state s most populous county, maricopa. A county that president biden won, by about 45,000 votes. I want you to hear it, again. By the way, the music underneath. That was part of t
Revelation prompted an uproar. We learned the trump justice department seized cell phone data from the former president s political enemies and their families, including sitting members of congress. I want to start where i just left off and the news about the justice department during the trump administration. Some of their families. So do you know how many members add their data subpoenaed? well, good morning. Before i answer that i want to say i m wearing orange. This is the color of gun violence pretension. Last night while we were having a moment of silence for those who were victims of the pulse assault other mask shootings for happening across the country. As we talk about infrastructure and about commission and data mining and the rest, every day, every morning, every night we are not forgetting these victims. When i visited pulse at the time of the shooting, the families came together and said stop this from happening. When they visited washington following that horrible thing,
Judiciary county. That is breaking news. A couple of years in the making. [laughs] don mcgahn is the leading investigator from the mueller report on president trump instructing justice on ten instances plus laid out in great detail in the mueller report. Again, has never had to testify about. It this will be the first testimony we have heard. It happens just as the justice department is deciding, right now, whether or not they re going to release to the public the memo that bill barr justice department prepared about why trump shouldn t be prosecuted for any of those alleged incidents of obstruction of justice. It s kind of happening all at the same time. And because of the late hour at which this justice department memo is going to be released or not, we ve actually kind of adjusted the scheduling of this show so that neal katyal can appear later in the show. We don t have the memo yet. There is kind of a whole, as i think you know, in the script here where that memo is supposed to go