so much. that does it for me tonight. president biden will address the nation at 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow night. we will bring that you live in that special team coverage right here on msnbc and alex wagner tonight starts now. hi, alex. i think i will see you tomorrow night virtual or in person. we have a lot to talk about. absolutely. as we have all week. a lot will happen. see you tomorrow. so this is what the crowds look like when vice president kamala harris rolled into milwaukee today as the democratic party de facto presidential nominee. more than 3000 people packed into a high school auditorium to hear her speak. the campaign originally intended to hold this event at a smaller venue, but there were so many rsvps they had to move it at the last minute to accommodate the crowd. and you can see, can you see? there you go, there were lots of freshly printed signs. there were people holding signs saying yes we can and there was a candidate ready to take the fi
democratic nominee again? it is getting very confusing. kamala was out there this afternoon in the wilmington headquarters seemingly making the case for joe biden. we ll get into that is anyone really buying this act? in one term he has already, yes, you may clap. [laughter] the. the ultimate cheap fakes. that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: all right. things keep getting weirder and weirder in biden-harris land. so last thursday. early morning, three days before his own party would push him to get out of the race we were told that joe biden tested positive for covid. most adults four and a half years after pandemic was called getting covid was like getting a cold. nevertheless biden went into seclusion in biden and he hasn t been seen since. but late this afternoon, we heard his voice at a kamala event. why the way, i m not going anywhere. i m going to be out there on the campaign with her, with kamala. i will be working like hell both as a sitting president,
good morning. it is saturday, july 20th. ym alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. today the bending of the knee. the gop pledges its total loyalty to trump . senator elizabeth worn joins us the conversation with a warning about the ex-president and his new running mate. where the biden campaign goes from here. congressman james clyburn on that. vice president harris on the attack highlighting what republicans conveniently left out of their republican speeches. welcome to the weekend . d . today donald trump and ohio senator jd vance will campaign together in michigan. it is their first joint rally appearances donald trump named him as his vp pick during the republican national convention. this was a convention which served as a reminder of trump s total domination of the republican party, despite a promise of unity, the same old trump came out the moment he went off script, repeating allies of a stolen election and blaming democrats f
evening. tonight, president biden is reportedly fuming over the deluge of democrats calling on him to exit the race. is he any closer to passing the torch? also tonight, promises made, promises kept. trump says he wants unity, so why didn t his rnc deliver any of it. strike while the country is fixated on presidential politics it s been one of the deadliest weeks in gaza despite claims by israel that the war is winding down. this week was supposed to be a bounce back week for joe biden s presidential campaign. that is not how things are playing out. now sick with covid at his delaware beach house, the president is seeing more and more democratic lawmakers calling for him to exit the race. at this hour, there are 36 democrats defecting, including senators and tough re-election races such as in ohio and montana. prior to his covid diagnosis, president biden tried to turn the tide with more tv interviews , but they have actually only raised more concerns and questions. how cou
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