it evening from new york, i am chris hayes. well, it s been a brutal few weeks for the country. particularly for the democratic party, for the broad pro- democracy coalition in this party. three weeks ago we were all holding our breath ahead of the first presidential debate, the early is such a debate had happened in the modern era. you know how that went. in the aftermath of that, messy and painful as joe biden and the democratic party try to find a way forward. and last weekend, donald trump was injured in a near miss assassination attempt. i mean, i was looking today, but near miss understates how close this came to being a catastrophe. it was the first time in more than 40 years we saw shots fired at a president or presidential candidate. and then just 48 hours, trump named an extreme right-wing senator, jd vance of ohio, as his running mate. on the first day of the republican national convention, the david judge aileen cannon hand-picked donald trump throughout the entir
a good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with decision 2024, president joe biden and covid self isolation today saying he s ready to return to the campaign trail. ap is reporting david letterman will headline a fundraiser with the president on july 29th. it is one of 10 campaign fundraisers scheduled for the last 10 days of july even as debate intensifies among democratic lawmakers over whether the president should be at the top of the ticket. joe biden is our nominee as i said before. he has a really big decision to make. what gives me a lot of hope right now is that if president biden decides to step back we have vice president kamala harris who is ready to step up. resident joe biden has been a very effective president over the last 3 1/2 years. he understands what it means if donald trump should get his hands back in the white house and on the levers of executive authority. i believe we are well off wit
ainsley: such a powerful moment at the rnc, former president trump making had first ap appearance since surviving an assassination attempt. watch this. if i had to start again, just my children and my wife. thank my lucky stars to be living here today. the flag still stands for freedom and they can t take that away. i m proud to be an american, where at least i know i m free. i won t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. because there ain t no doubts, i love this land. sing it. god bless the usa. lawrence: what a moment, former president met by roaring applause in milwaukee. his head still bandaged. steve: joining j.d. vance, embodies forgotten men and women. vance spoke about his history in the past with president trump. i was skeptical of donald trump in 2016, he changed the mind says mof me and a lot of americans. president trump did a good job. it is a good thing when you see somebod
another hour of the story.. former president trump says he is on his way here to to milwaukee. he talk thed the about some changes, so let s bring bret in, anchor of special report. we ve got a little competing warm-up music back here as they get ready for the week. tell us about your conversation with the former president and current nominee. yep, we talked for about 15 minutes, and he said i could kind of express some of the things he talk thed the about. he s in really great spirits. he is on his way to milwaukee, leaving at 3:30. he made a truth social post about that saying they re not going to let the shooter affect any of his plans. did consider delaying coming here to milwaukee but is moving forward with that. i want to put up that video and just give you his words about characterizing how that all went down. at the speech, you see that he turns to the right. that s because there s this big graphic of immigration stats about border security stats, and he wasn t
i can reiterate what i said before in terms of what the city of milwaukee has done. our counsel and i conducted with me, and signed a local ordinance to make sure that there s more protection in the outer perimeter. as a relates to officers and elsewhere coming in to assist with the public safety. no change. make sure there s more protection to the outer perimeter i m sorry. [ inaudible question ] the ordinance i m referring to, that we had passed proactively at the local level, which is the same ordinance, the same type of ordinance we passed in preparation for the democratic national convention when it took place in milwaukee mostly a virtual event, and ordinance that does not does not allow an individual to bring into the outer perimeter things like cans, bottles that a that are field. other hard objects that can be used as projectile weapons, things like that. eschenbach there is no specific isolated threats. yesterday we saw an uptick in social