breyer s last great important decisions if he were to step down. this notion that if we talk about it, it will make him more resistant to the completely rational choice to step down at this time, strikes me as just so childish. i mean, senators face this all the time. members of the court have faced it throughout our lives, the question of should so-and-so not run for re-election, and adults deal with that. and he should understand that of course there s plenty of rational reason why he should step down. this is the perfect summer for him to do that. and the notion that if we talk about it, he just might stay there till he s, i don t know what, he s 82 now, i don t know. do you not feel even the least bit superstitious about it, though? i mean, given what we have just been through with the last few vacancies on the court. is there like a little, like, don t walk under the ladder, don t cross the black cat, superstition feeling for you about talking about it? or is that just
Department said it will no longer secretly gather journalists records. We will dive into the Handsoff Relationship with the doj as he tries to set boundaries for the agency. Plus, today marks 40 years since the first Cdc Report on the disease we now all aids. How far have we come and what is next in the fight against hiv. And well talk about Mental Health in pro sports from Nba Hall of famer Chris Bosh. Im joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. It has been quite a week and this week was marked both by anticipation and anxiety. One reason for the anxiety among many americans, the former president will speak any moment now at the republican State Convention. He is expected to touch on some familiar themes. Were monitoring it in case he commits news, and nbcs Ali Vitali is there in North Carolina. We will have an update from her in a moment. Tonight caps a week of trumprelated news. He has reportedly been telling friends he will be reinstated as president this summer. For those of you playi
we have a lot of work to do this hour, beginning with vladimir putin, who picked today of all days to abolish happiness in the world. which was so unfortunate. we re going to get to that. and big joe manchin breaking news, he s softening on the so-called filibuster rule. he s embracing an idea that two of our guest have proposed. and he had a meeting with some democrats from texas who have come to washington to lobby him on the voting rights bills. we ll have one of them join us. but here s what you missed. and this is big. donald trump finally conceded tonight, he delivered the concession speech. he did. yes. not making this up. to sean hannity on that hour. here s how it went. it s not the traditional form. first of all, sean hannity said to him, more than once, began questions with, if you were still president. and donald trump did not correct him. donald trump went on okay. and said words. i m not going to say he answered the question, but he said words after the
Rolls. Remember florida in 2000 and georgia last year . Tonight republicans revealed those things were pretty much bs. Given the chance to debate those republican friendly ideas on voting, they punted. Not one republican voted to advance debate on the bill. Surprise. Because the bill didnt meet the 60vote Threshold to fill a filibuster, it wont get the chance to be debated. Vice president harris tasked with the voting Rights Portfolio spoke to reporters afterwards. And i think it is clear certainly for the american people that when were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern. It is an american concern. This is about the american peoples right to vote unfettered. It is about their access to a right to vote in a meaningful way. Nobody is debating, i dont believe, whether all americans have the right to vote. The issue here is there actual access to the voting process, or is that being impeded. The Bottom Line is that the president and i ar
tonight. and i am not going to tell you why they are here, okay? because it s actually kind of a movie thing that crosses over into our news. but, you know, that s coming up. you have sacha barron corken and aaron horken? yes, sacha baron cohen, yeah, i m wicked excited about that. wow. that s incredible. i am going to go because i want to watch your show. you have a reason to watch this time. thank you, rachel. we have a breaking news report which we will get to in a moment from politico tonight reporting that the first trump aide, the first trump appointee has been arrested in connection with the invague of the capitol. he was a former aide in mike pompeo s state department. his name is federico cline, a former marine. he was arrested tonight for his participation in the attack on the capitol. we are going to get to that, the details in a moment. and a new study shows that black lives matter worked. killings declined after black lives matter protests. the civil righ