Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those Little Fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those campaign fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, A Million dollars, they want a Favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political Deals Toe the Bribery Line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois Governor Hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political Rra Pocouption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rod Blagojevich. It was early morning, cause i used to get
Day. Nicole will be back on monday. Right now its time for the beef with The One And Only ari melber. Welcome to The Beat. Vice president harris has won the nomination for president. It is through the early virtual votes that began today. She clinched it. It will be fully official on monday because they will complete this virtual roll call vote. Just as 2020s vote shifted more virtual during the pandemic, this Cycles Shift for the Democratic Convention and the assorted procedures has begun earlier. And like early voting, this is a step democrats have taken. And now its become somewhat normal. In this case, they wanted to be proactively normalized and stave off any possible republican legal challenges over state deadlines. So even before harris jumped in this race, as you may have heard people mention, they were already planning to go forward with there delegate vote. They are doing it today. Her swift ascendance caps this well known tradition. We cast 11 votes for our next president of
Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those Little Fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those campaign fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, A Million dollars, they want a Favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political Deals Toe the Bribery Line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois Governor Hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rod Blagojevich. It was early morning, cause i used to get up e
party, the party of yachts and country clubs and billionaires whose goal is to pay zero in taxes so they don t have to foot the bill for you or anyone to drive on the road. that party has aggressively branded itself as the working class party for years. and republicans do that because it works. white working class americans began voting in large numbers in the 1960s and 70s, pushed largely in the gop camp not by their own desire but the democrats moving on civil rights. but the push, the glopping up of whis voters who had for a long time been democrats, republicans mopping up those voters helped to secure one florida man s presidential victory. people refer to the donald who was born with $317 billion in his golden pockets and who had a golden toilet as a working class billionaire, bananas but it still works. and the con remains in full effect. the most significant political change in the past decade has been that the heart and soul of the republican party, we are a workin
tonight major developments in the january 6th investigation including a new civil lawsuit filed against the former president. then as for our friend from wisconsin i hope he enjoyed his thursday evening. senator raphael war nocon the ongoing covid relief vote and how on earth the minimum wage vote went up in flames. plus devastating new reporting on what looks like an andrew cuomo cover-up. and ezra coastline on why joe biden s anti-trump presidency is off to such a successful start. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we now know that in the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th pushing into the building and fighting the police was at least one trump political appointee. an active employee of the trump state department. on that day his name is fredrico klein. he was a special assistant in the bureau of western hemisphere affairs. tech analyst on the 2016 it campaign. then join the state department as a staff assistan