Theres not a normal week for you. You are not done by any stretch of the imagination. I am hoping for a nap, schedule and wheaties. But theres not a nap this week because theres too much to do to talk about important hours of the night. So im going to be watching you guys all week and i thank you for everything youre doing and for some amazing shows this morning. And you guys, have a great few hours of breast. Yeah, write. A couple of hours and we are off. Have a good one. Velshi starts now. Good morning, to saturday august 18th. The election is 79 days away and tomorrow democrats will kickoff the national convention in chicago with the wind at their backs. Hoping to build on kamala Harris Momentum. This morning it was revealed the theme of this Years Convention will be for the people, for our future. Which borrows from the Vice President s pass campaign slogan, Kamala Harris for the people. Is going to be s a slightly different affair from past democratic conventions and a very differ
Commitments. We are not walking away from our commitments to the afghan forces not eliminating our diplomatic presence on the ground doing the right thing at the right time to protect our people. Paul now lets bring in Jack Keane Fox news senior strategic analyst. General, great to see you again. The president makes his decision to withdraw okay. Could america have done more to what is increasingly looking like an out . Absolutely paul. This is serious miscalculations by President Biden in not considering the consequences of his withdrawal decision. That is now turned into an embarrassing retreat putting the forces in and that americans are harmed in the process of this withdrawal and with we should be reasonable people can disagree but the decision has been made. So number one i want to guarantee that the Tele Band are not able to take over as the one as an event of my withdrawal decision. That would put in place conditions to ensure that was the case. Thirtyone august and then withdr
silvia s restaurant. this week s interview will bring it a full circle. so stay tuned. next saturday, 5:00 p.m. eastern, on politics nation, right here on msnbc. and now, to tonight s lead. the new normal. one third of president biden s first 100 days have already gone by, and to his credit, the president has met the albeit, not without brewing fights within his own party over the scale and scope of his proposed solutions. has the nation mourns the breaking news that more than half a million americans have died from covid, as of today, the president is ramping up his ambitious vaccination efforts and paying attention to the growing racial disparities in the vaccine s distribution. ane bit, i ll talk to chicago mayor lori lightfoot about how her city is getting the vaccine to black and brown residents who need it most. but back to politics first. because as president biden pushes forward on covid, he s already pulled back from more ambitious offerings on raising the minimum
such professional fbi as well as the local cooperation i was told was incredible, was seamless, i just wanted to let you know that. okay. mr. president, how had the man gotten weapons, a report that he had been in the country for a couple of weeks? allegedly. i do not have all of the facts. allegedly, the assertion was he got the weapons on the street. he purchased them when he landed and turns out apparently there were no bombs that we know of that he said that there were bombs he had as well. but he apparently he spent the first night in a homeless shelter. i don t have all the detail yet. i m reluctant to go into much more detail but allegedly he purchased it on the street. what that means i don t know. whether he purchased from an individual in homeless shelter or homeless community or whether that s because he said he was. it s hard to tell. i just don t know. to ensure that guns are not as available? well, it does but it doesn t. what guns are, we should be th
in a 113-page decision, judge robert pittman notes that texas deliberately crafted this law to evade judicial review by deputizing private citizens, not the state of texas, to sue abortion providers, essentially creating a system of vigilante justice. he writes, quote, this court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right. the white house in the statement says the ruling is an important step towards restoring the constitutional rights of women in texas. the state plans to appeal. i assume very quickly. this is huge news for women waking up in the state of texas this morning. 113 pages. i ve been through it. it s very careful. it s worth noting here, christine, that texas, despite all of its efforts, didn t actually ban abortion. it banned abortion for women who do not have the resources and the money to travel out of state because the justice department pointed out, people are still getting abortions. they re just going across stat