every time they have had a nominee since then. it has been this guy. his democratic opponent the president of the united states joe biden tonight announced he has tested positive for covid. he has therefore canceled all events so he can recover back home in delaware. the president is said to be mildly symptomatic. the president s doctor releasing a statement saying he has upper respiratory symptoms including a runny nose and a nonproductive cough. the doctors a statement says the president has general malaise which generally just means you feel bad. the white house statement i should point this out misspelled the word malaise. i spent if you panicked minutes googling the misspelling of the word to make sure it wasn t a new medical term i have never heard before. turns out it doesn t. the president just feels lousy. he has malaise. and a dry cough. he is taking paxlovid. this is the president of the second about with covid. the first time he had it was almost exactly 2 years a
you re looking at live images from the republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin this evening. of course, the big speech we are going to be hearing from trump s vice presidential running mate, jd vance. the nomination of jd vance marks the first time since john mccain ran against barack obama in 2008 that we ve had a u.s. military veteran of the top of the ticket either as the presidential or vice presidential nominee. jd vance is a retired marine. he spent six months in iraq as a combat correspondent as part of a marine corps public affairs unit. at the same time he was in iraq, literally at the exact same time, another rising star in american politics, another increasingly recognizable face of american politics, maryland governor westmore was also deployed with the military. he was a captain in the u.s. army leading combat troops as a paratrooper in afghanistan. in current incredibly, both of these men came back after their service and wrote highly praised, a
republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin. i m rachel maddow, joined here at msnbc headquarters by my colleagues joy reid and nicolle wallace and jen psaki and ari melber. we have chris hayes under a desk here somewhere. on days like this when it can be difficult to wrap your head around all of the news that will just not stop unfolding, we know you have every choice in the urld about where to watch the news tonight, so we re grateful to have you here with us. let s start with some of the day s biggest developments. just after 3:00 eastern this afternoon, republican nominee donald trump announced online that he had chosen ohio senator jd vance to be his vice presidential running mate. jd vance is 39 years old, he has held political office for less than two years before which he was best known for writing his autobiography. senator vance was famously a harsh trump critic in 2016 when trump first ran for president. jd vance at the time, again then, famous just as a
fda s split decision on vaccine booster shots. and are the fossil fuel giants about to face their big tobacco moment? yes or no. do you believe nicotine is not addictive? i don t believe that nicotine or our products are addictive. i believe nicotine is not addictive. i believe that nicotine is not addictive. congressman ro khanna on the hearings to investigate fossil fuel s role in climate change with all in starts right now. good evening from new york city. i m chris hayes. politics in a functioning liberal democracy is about organizing people and power and institutions. it is about persuasion and argue mentation and resolving the inherent conflict within societies nonviolently, right. things completely fall apart once you end up in a political reality in which menace and the threat of physical violence are a central factor in the life of your nation s politics. that is a reality i fear is becoming common in this country. it really started to intensify durin
finale of melrose play. title undetermined, by the way. chairman of the board. do something with that, you freak. i bet the board is spelled b-o-r-e-d. it took me about 15 minutes to recover from that. of course former saturday night live star norm mac donald who tragedy passed away after a long battle with cancer. we ll have more about his legacy coming up. norm macdonald was one of the funniest guys out there. he just held a special place in so many of his fans hearts. such sad news. truly, i mean, i gasped when i saw this yesterday. i guess he had been sick with cancer for almost a decade, and hadn t told anybody, kept it private or had told very few people anyway. nobody makes me laugh harder. i know that s for sure, and you could see it on conan s face as the clips were going on. these are the funniest people in america, conan, letterman, john stewart, and nobody did the slow burn joke on a talk show, better than norm macdonald, he would wind it up for two