Campaign. 106 days before voters head to the polls. I m in new york. I m john harwood in washington, d. C. On sunday president biden announced he will exit the race for the white house and endorse vice president kamala harris to replace him as the democratic nominee. A short time ago the association of state democratic committee confirmed they will be overwhelming vote for harris. And as harris for president, dozens of democratic lawmakers have thrown their support behind harris. The time is short. We do not have time to go back and look at the rearview mirror and talk about who said what and who is call if it. We have got behind the ticket with kamala harris at the hell does what h the to bring in a whopping $47 million from small dollar donors. Harris will be speak later this morning at a previously scheduled white house event. After picking up president biden s endorsement, she plans to earn and win the nomination before the dnc convention in august. Joining us now from delaware is
President biden making american history with an active profound political and personal sacrifice. 3. 5 years into his presidency, president biden stepping down from his reelection bid in favor of his vice president kamala harris. I have been processing this for five hours already, and it still gives me chills to say it. In the instant he announced at 1:46 p. M. This afternoon, everything changed. Everything changed. The democratic party instantly ends its internal war, this emotional, intense, harrowing fight that has torn the party apart for the past 3. 5 weeks. That is over in an instant. The expectation among democrats which is being voiced more openly in recent days, the expectation that the democratic party was in for a wipeout in november with not just the white house in danger but the house and senate in danger as well. That expectation evaporates also in an instant. With president biden voicing a strong and unequivocal endorsement of his vice president kamala harris with harris
Happy sunday. Anything going on? [ laughter ] thank you for joining us for this special coverage tonight, i am rachel maddow, i am joined by my beloved colleagues who i cannot wait to talk to tonight about what has happened today. Joy reid is here, nicolle wallace is here, jen psaki. You do not see the joy on your screen right now because there is some gremlin with the camera, but we will have her in just a moment, joy is standing by as well. The four of us will be with you throughout the duration of this special coverage tonight. You know, we do special coverage for all sorts of stuff. This is not all sorts of stuff, you will always remember where you were when you heard the news today. What a day in history. President joe biden making american history with an act of profound political and personal sacrifice. 3 1/2 years into his presidency, president joe biden stepping down from his re election bid in favor of his vice president, kamala harris. I have been processing this for five ho
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 democratic senato
Law enforcement today faced increasingly tough questions about saturday s assassination attempt against him. Cnn was the first report today and nbc news has confirmed that the secret service it actually ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. Iran has singled out a number of different american officials in recent years for potential attempts on their lives. Nbc news reporting that three different trump administration officials, john bolton, former secretary of state mike pompeo, brian cook, all were provided u. S. Funded security teams because of threats from iran with congress approving the funding for those added layers of protection in the case of each of those guys. Trump, as the republican nominee, is just the latest u. S. Official, former official, to reportedly be threatened by iran. Now what is interesting here in terms of sort of news of the day and pressing concerns about what happened this pack pa